A Runaway Horse

When Denece was a little girl, there was a horse that was running away with her on it.  She was sure that she was barely hanging on by one stirrup.  Her mother (Dora) saved her.  When Denece was older she realized the horse was an old work horse.  Her father (Delbert) said “that horse never ran away with you.  I had the reins the whole time.”  There is even a picture of her on the horse.

(1936 Denece Ann Argyle)

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

From Doris Alene Argyle Maughan

The grandchildren always loved to come to Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Denece's children often came to spend the summers working and storing up memories of the wonderful times they had.  Dora was always willing to watch the kids whenever she was asked.  She loved them dearly and showed this many times and in many ways.  During the last few years of her life, she acquired the hobby of making lamps with beautiful dolls for the base of each.  She made one for every granddaughter plus Denece, Joyce, and myself.  She spent hours fashioning clothes and making hair out of fake fur.  She would make individual curls on each doll.  She even made rings for the tiny fingers, necklaces for the delicate necks of the dolls and lamp shades of frilly lace and ruffles.

(1969 Denece Perkins, Dora, Delbert, and Doyle Argyle, and Alene Maughan)

 

(1976 Delbert Argyle)

 

 

One of Dora's Beautiful Lamps, this one as a Bride

 

Moving Time

From Doris Alene Argyle Maughan

In the spring of 1970, my parents (Delbert and Dora) moved once again to the ranch near the home they lived in until Doyle and Joyce got married.  They bought a mobile home and fixed the yard and area to be beautiful.  Mother planted flowers and trees and loved it here.  My father helped my brother farm.  They both owned cattle and it was a family affair every spring and fall as branding and marketing chores were carried out.  Mother and Joyce used to get the dinner ready for the crew whiled the rest of us worked.

(1970 Delbert and Dora Argyle's Home)

Driving

It was spring time when the roads were muddy that Denece got her license to drive.  The next day her cousin, Sherrie Luthie, came and they went to chase after boys.  Denece rolled her Dad’s new Frazer car.  New cars were hard to get as it was just after WWII.  Denece lost a lens out of her glasses and Sherrie ended up with a little scratch on her shoulder from where the lens had hit her.

(1949 Denece Argyle)

 

Frazer Car

 

Milk Shakes and Sundaes

When Edwin was in high school he and his parents would go to the Green Lantern drive in for milk shakes.  It was right across from the ISU campus.  At the Green Lantern, they would bring out the shakes to you and put them on trays that hooked to the car window.  His favorite was root beer with an extra shot of root beer.  He later took Denece there and her favorite was the hot fudge sundae.  She never did like a milk shake.

(1951 Edwin Perkins and Denece Argyle)

Always Fun

From Denece Ann Argyle Perkins

My folks worked hard clearing land and burning sagebrush.  I remember going out with them and how they kept telling me to stay behind mom so I wouldn't get burned.  They used to play hard too.  We would be snowed in all winter except an occasional trip to town after groceries in a sleigh but they kept our home life active and fun, with popcorn, candy pulls and always new games and Grandpa Argyle to tell us stories.

(1949 Dora and Delbert Argyle)

 

 

(1949 Doyle Argyle)

 

(1949 Denece Ann Argyle)

 

(1949 Alene Argyle)

Georgie Porgie

When Denece met Edwin, her boy friend was Georgie Porgie Payne.

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

 

(1951 Denece Ann Argyle)

 

Mandy, Edwin and Denece's granddaughter, can remember Edwin teasing her, singing the same song just changing it to Mandy Pandy. . .

 

A Fire in the Home

From Denece Ann Argyle Perkins

When I was about five I almost lost my mother.  Since there was no electricity on our dry farm, dad bought mom a steam iron to use in place of ones that you had to heat on the coal stove.  Well , anyways, the steam iron blew up and set the room on fire in which my mom was ironing.  All the rest of us were outside.  I decided I wanted a cookie that mom had baked that morning so I went in the house.  By that time mother was sitting on the table, the only spot of  the room that wasn't flaming.  I took one look and ran from the house to my father who was fixing some machinery and told him, "Come quick, mom is burning."  I never saw anyone move so fast.  I bet he set new records in racing the day.  My grandfather Argyle, who was milking cows saw dad running so he fell into a run to.  Somehow, Doyle, my brother had joined us also.  We all grabbed some heavy braided rugs mother had made and beat and beat at that fire.  We finally reached my mother and dad carried her outside and treated her burns which must not have been to severe for she healed without leaving any scars.  We were one thankful family that night and I remember dad getting us together and thanking God for sparing our mother's life.

(1942 Denece Ann Argyle)

 

(1940 Joseph Hyrum Argyle)

Chicken Eggs

Rachelle Forschler Mendoza remembers visiting her Great Grandpa Lamar Perkins.  He raised chickens when he was living with Evelyn and Jim in Tyee, Idaho.  They were amazed when they would gather eggs and Aunt Evelyn cracked open one and it had an eyeball in it.  She cooked it anyways and Grandpa ate it with ketchup.  They thought it might have been the embryo beginning to form. Yuck!

(1995 Lamar Perkins)

 

(1995 The Forschler Family)

Father and Son Farming

Delbert farmed with his father Joseph Hyrum Argyle.  They were always interested in having the newest developments in farm equipment.  The first combine Denece remembers would cut the grain and the straw came down a chute and would drop into  a tent like thing that her father made.  It was Denece's job to stand in the middle of it until there was a good pile of straw and then they would move it to the side and it would pivot and dump out the straw.  This saved a lot of time because they would not have to go back and rake up the straw.

(1936 Joseph Hyrum Argyle)

 

(1945 Denece Ann Argyle)

 

Slugs for Dinner

One time Edwinna (4) and Delbert (3) were outside in the yard playing and Edwinna made Delbert play house with her.  She served him up a plate with slugs and dandelion leaves on it.  She turned her back and before she could tell him not to, he had already eaten the slugs.  Later when Edwinna would tell her friends about this incident, they wouldn’t believe her so Delbert would have to eat more slugs to prove it.

(1957 Delbert and Edwinna Perkins)

 

 

 

(1957 Denece, Edwinna, and Delbert Perkins)

Training Horses

Delbert trained horses from the time he was a teenager.  Often others would bring him their horses to break.  Once when he and Doyle ( his son) was about seven years old, they trained Doyle's horse to come out of the  barn and roll over three time when they opened the door to the barn.  Doyle named this horse Tony. Delbert used to like to brake in a new horse in the winter.  As it was less painful being thrown into a snow bank.

(1937 Doyle and Denece Argyle)

 

Penny and the Cow

In 1969, the family went to Idaho to drop Del off to work at Grandpa Argyle’s ranch.  The family took Penny, the dog.  She was a small dog and Delbert would take Penny out in the fields with him as he worked.  Penny had a great time chasing the cows until one old cow got tired of her barking and yipping.  The cow started chasing the little dog and Penny turned and started running.  She hopped up into Delbert’s arms and he started running to try to get into the truck.  Grandpa Argyle laughed so hard because he had locked the truck.  Delbert had to make a mad leap into the bed of the truck just as the cow hit the tail gate.

(1969 Denece Perkins, Dora, Delbert, Doyle Argyle, and Alene Maughan)

 

(1969 Delbert, D.Ann, Edwin, Edwinna, Billy Joe, Denece, and Darlene Perkins)

 

 

Riding to School

From Doyle Argyle

As Dad (Delbert Kynaston Argyle) grew and started school he would tell of riding to school on his horse and horse racing there and back.  This kind of bothered me and one time I said, “Well Dad when you used to ride your horse to school and tie him up all day what would you give him to eat?”  He looked at me as if I was out of my mind and he said, “Well a bucket of grain.”  That’s something that never dawned on me that they would take a bucket of grain to school to feed your horse to get back home again.

(1915 Delbert Kynaston Argyle)

Summers with Grandma and Grandpa

Delbert Argyle’s grandson Delbert Perkins started staying the summers with him and Dora when he was about five years old.  He always wanted to go out ranching with his grandpa.  He was told he could go if he was up when the sun came up.  So he was.  He loved going with his Grandpa Argyle.  He would take his nap on the hood of the tractor.

(1959 Delbert Perkins)

 

(1958 Dora Argyle)

Be a Good Boy

From Doyle Argyle

As has been said he (Delbert Kynaston Argyle) was born in 1911, the youngest member of his family and his mother passed away when he was fifteen years old.  So much of his early childhood was spent growing up without the advice and guidance of a mother, but very much help and advice from a loving father.  Joseph Argyle was really proud of his son Delbert.  They farmed together, the raised children together and lived together.  When I say raised children together I mean myself and my two sisters.  With all this togetherness we were a very close family unit.

 

From Denece Ann Argyle Perkins

When his mother Elizabeth Ann Kynaston Argyle was dying and they put her on the train in Bancroft, Idaho to go to Bountiful, Utah.  Her brother in-law, John Carter Stocks was a doctor there.  Elizabeth told Delbert to "be a good boy" and he always tried to.

 

(1873-1927 Elizabeth Ann Kynaston Argyle)

 

(1915 4 Generations of Argyles)

 

 

Herding Cows

From Doyle Argyle

 

One of Denece and myself jobs was to herd the milk cows out on the sagebrush during the day time. We would bring them back in the evening ready for milking.  My Mother used to make the best homemade root beer that there ever was.  About once a week we each used to get to take a bottle of this root beer with us to herd the cows.  One day when we were herding these cows, I left herding these cows to Denece and went over the hill and found some young rock chucks and spent a lot of time playing with them.  One thing and another and I let time slip away from me.  I was almost too late to get the cows back to the barn for milking.  In my hurry to get back and stay out of trouble, (Denece was young, not even in school yet and was not to be left alone) because one of our rules was that the cows were always in the barn when it was time for milking.  Anyway I gave my sister Denece, both of the empty root beer bottles to carry.  The only thing I could think of was getting those cows home as quick as I could using both feet and reins and whacking the horse everywhere I should I guess, to try to get home in this rapid succession.  When I came in my Dad looked at me and I could see something was wrong.  I thought boy I’m going to get balled out for being late and making the cows run.  Thus getting a very short supply of milk when milked.  The only thing he said to me was “Do you think your sister could hold on to the rear end of that horse behind the saddle with her hands full those empty root beer bottles and not fall off?”  I never thought of that.  All I knew was that she was always there.  This was the concern that Dad had for each of his children.  He wanted the best he could get for each of us.

(1943 Doyle, Alene, and Denece Argyle)

 

The Family Grows

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

I think Denece enjoyed the house in town more than any of us.  She could walk to school and to all the activities she wanted.  She had lots of friends and we enjoyed the days and evenings when she and her friends would come home for a party or a quick lunch.  We let her go to Pocatello, Idaho, to spend some time with her cousin, Veah Jean Van Orden.  Here she met a swell fellow named Edwin Lamar Perkins.  He brought her home on a Sunday in a green convertible.  She said to me, "How do you like my convertible boy?"  We all had a good laugh but she was embarrassed... Later she married this fellow in the Logan Temple on 16 May 1952.  She has two lovely children at the present time, a girl they call Edwinna Louise and a boy they call Delbert Lamar.  The only thing, they are living in Seattle, Washington, and we don't see them as often as we would like.

 

(1950 Veah Van Orden and Denece Argyle)

 

(1951 Edwin Perkins and Denece Argyle)

 

(1955 Edwin, Delbert, and Edwinna Perkins)

 

Grandfather Joseph Hyrum Argyle

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

When Doyle and Joyce's marriage was about to take place, we bought a lovely new home from Newell Call in Bancroft and went there to live.  Doyle and Joyce made their home on the ranch.  We all went to Logan with them and left father Argyle to tend Alene and to do the dishes.  When we got home we were saddened to hear that our hired man had had to take father Argyle to the hospital.  He had suffered a stroke.  The following 25 September, 1950 he passed away.  He was a grand person and we still find ourselves missing all the nice things he did for us.

 

(1947 Dora and Delbert Argyle)

 

(1949 Joseph Hyrum Argyle)

 

(1950 Joseph Hyrum Argyle)

 

 

 

The Best Chalk Around

From Doyle Argyle

It seems Delbert’s home on the flat was kind of a mark or gathering place for the neighbors around there, the Nelson’s, the Kingston’s, the Sessions and so on seemed to use that as a target place for social times.  Back then there was no electricity so the lighting was done with kerosene lamps and gasoline lights, but through the foresight of my grandfather when he built the home he put in what was known as a carbide system.  This consisted of a tank of carbide periodically being dumped into a large vat filled with water and causing carbide gas to burn and make the brightest lights in the valley.  Everyone told him this was a dangerous thing that shouldn’t be done.  I remember him going to my Dad and saying “Do you think we ought to change this Delbert?”  Dad would reply “What do you think?”  Grandfather would always reply “As long as it is taken care of properly it will be alright.”  So one of my fond memories as a child is cleaning out this vat every fall and getting the white carbide from the bottom that had crystallized, man that stuff made the best chalk you could ever get hold of.  I chalked up the barn and the corrals, and granary.  It would last for a period of three or four days until the rain came and then it would be gone.  It sure was wonderful chalk.

(1930 Delbert and Dora Argyle)

 

 

(1935 Doyle Argyle)

 

 

(1936 Joseph Hyrum Argyle)

A Move to Chesterfield

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

When the kids were still young, we left the dry farm three miles northeast of Bancroft where we enjoyed ourselves for four years.  All this time, father Argyle lived with us and he was very good to the children.  We bought his house.  We lived in it on the dry farm and then moved it to the ranch in Chesterfield where we lived for six years.  We purchased the farm from my mother.  Life was comfortable here as the Utah Power and Light put electricity throughout the county and everyone made their homes modern.  The children had buses to go to school in.  The schools all consolidated and had one big school in Bancroft.  Doyle was a Senior in high school now and he fell in love with a lovely girl named Joyce Jenkins.  They were married on 12 June, 1950 in the Logan Temple.  Their home was blessed with our first grandchild on 1 November 1952.

 

(1948 Argyle Ranch Home)

 

(1950 Joyce Jenkins and Doyle Argyle)

 

Skiing and Sledding

Notes From Doyle Argyle

Some of Delbert Argyle’s early childhood was spent racing horses, playing in the snow, skiing and sled riding on the old Kynaston hill as many of you remember out on the flat.  Most of these skis, sleds, toboggans and things were home made.  Some of the Kynaston boys became very skilled in making skis.  I remember their well house, which was made of logs.  Above one of the doors there was a gap between the door seal and the top log.  It was just right to soak these skis and put them in there to turn the tips so they made a decent tip to ride down the hill with.  Much of my early memories of having fun with my dad was going to the Kynaston hill and sledging and skiing down this hill.  It wasn’t long and it wasn’t far to climb up and come back down again.  This is what made it fun.

(1915 Delbert Kynaston Argyle)

Another Sister

When Denece was expecting her fourth child, Delbert expressed his desire to have a brother.  He didn't want another sister.  He claimed that if it was a girl, he would throw her in the pond, which was more of a swamp out behind the house.  Denece and Edwin were worried about coming home from the hospital because Delbert had gotten another sister, Denece Ann Perkins.  Edwin came home to tell the family it was a girl.  He took one of the girls' dolls and told the kids that they had a lovely baby sister just like the doll.  When Delbert finally met his new baby sister, he said, "aw, isn't she sweet?"  Delbert never did throw D.Ann in the pond. . . At least while she was a new born.

 

(1960 Denece Ann Perkins)

 

(1960 Delbert, Edwinna, D.Ann, and Darlene Perkins)

 

A Long Night and Day

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

When Alene came to our family she was healthy but one day she took sick with a cold.  It was winter time and the roads were blocked with snow.  I sat up all night with the heater and rocked her all night.  About daybreak my prayers were answered because I heard the snowplow.  We hurried to the doctor and he told us she would never live.  They put her in an oxygen tent and gave her a Sulpha drug which was just new.  A nurse used to come in her room.  She would take a spoon and work her jaws.  One time they were so set they bent the spoon double.  This lasted for sixteen long hours in which I was constantly praying for her life.  The Lord answered my prayers again and she got well.  She had measles and pneumonia.

(1945 Denece and Alene Argyle)

Three Children

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

Ten months after our marriage our first child was born.  It was a boy, our pride and joy.  We called him Doyle J.  He used to spend lots of time in his grandparents home as he was the first grandchild on my side.  His Grandmother Baty taught him how to drive a car.

 

(1935 Doyle Argyle)

Four years later a little girl came to our house.  She also was a joy to us because we dreamed about a girl like her.  She weighed seven pounds and had lots of dark hair and eyes.  People told me she was a living doll and I named her Denece Ann.  I would fuss over her.   Her hair was always curled and she had two clean dresses on a day.  When she was ten months old she had "gathered ears" and she started to suck her thumb.  She and Doyle got along well.

(1937 Doyle and Denece Argyle)

 

Seven years later our home was blessed by the arrival of Doris Alene, a sweet baby of five pounds.  All my children were born at home and my mother took care of me.  A couple of months before Alene came, my father was taken in death from a heart attack on 17 March 1942.  This was our first experience with death in our family and it was hard to take but we realized the work of the Lord.  Dell and I rented the ranch from my mother.  She moved to Farmington, Utah.  Later we bought the ranch from mother.

(1943 Doyle, Doris Alene, and Denece Argyle)

 

Denece remembers her mother telling her that she had "gathered ears," but she never did know what that meant.

Delbert Kynaston Argyle and Dora Alene Baty

From Dora Baty Argyle

 

One day in the summer I wanted to go to a dance so I coaxed my mother to let me stay the night at a friends.  I came to town with the mailman.  That night I told a fellow named Delbert Kynaston Argyle I had to walk home.  He took pity on me and offered to take me home.  Of course, I  accepted and knew that night he was the guy for me.  I went with him for about a year and a half and then married hem in the Logan L D S Temple in Logan, Utah, on June 11, 1930.

We went to live with Dell's folks, (a sister, Alice, and his father).  The hard thing was leaving my folks and twin sister, but the Argyle family was very good to me.  I soon learned to love them dearly.
 

 

(1930 Delbert and Dora Argyle)

 

 

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