Memories of my Life in Virden

Verl Jones

Verl Jones asked me to do some yard work for him when I was about 12 years old. It had tall Bermuda grass and lots of weeds. He only had a push lawn mower. I worked hard mowing lawns, weeding etc for two days. I went to get my pay and he said, "How much do I owe you?" I said, "I don't know." thinking he would be fair with me. He hands me .50 cents! I was really upset about that. I had built a real nice toy chest in shop which I gave ro Larry. Verl Jones asked me if I would build one like that for his children and I said, "No!"

Chewing Tobacco

In 7th grade a kid brought some chewing tobacco to school. Several of kids in class tried chewing it and it was really nasty and we had to go spit in the waste basket.

Mom and Store in Duncan

When I was 6 or 7 we were in a grocery store in Duncan. I saw a woman with long, black hair. I thought it was my mom. I went up behind her and put my arms around her. She turned around and it was a Mexican lady. I was so embarassed.

Mom Singing on the Radio

My mom had a pretty voice and they had her come into Safford to sing on the radio. I had a spring dart gun which had darts with a suction cup on the end of the stick that would stick on the window after you shot it. I was in the back seat of the car with my gun. I said, "Mom" and she turned around and I shot the gun and the dart hit her in the eye and gave her a black eye. She was really angry at me and she was embarrassed to have to go to the radio station to sing with a black eye. I was about 6 years old.

"Bishop" Clouse and the Skunks

I was staying with Sis in the smith house which was about a block away from the Clouse house. I decided to go play with Bishop Clouse. I was walking over there. It was dark. I heard something and smelled a skunk smell. I didn't realize I had been sprayed by a skunk. I knocked on Mrs. Clouse's door. She opened it and took one smell and said, "Go away!" I went back to Sis's place. She made me take my clothes off outside, I rubbed myself with tomato juice and showered.

My Dog

I had a pup named Skippy when I was about 10. He was a mixture of bulldog, boxer etc. He liked to fight two dogs in Virden, one was a chow and one was a German Shepherd. He was scared to death of being tied up with a rope, so you couldn't tie him up. We had been away for a couple of days. we came home and Skippy was covered with cuts and bite marks. The chow that he often fought with had ripped the scalp off a child and they tested the chow and he had rabies. We were afraid that Skippy had fought with the chow and afraid he might have rabies. I had to shoot him.

Church Testimony Meetings

Testimony meetings at Virden turned out to be a marathon of talks. When I was a young boy I was always hungry from fasting breakfast. As long as anyone wanted to talk, the meeting kept going 3 or 4 hours. The church wasn't air conditioned. It was hot. John Jones would sit there and snore and when I finally thought we could go, John Jones would wake up and bear about a 30 minute testimony. I grew up hating testimony meetings.

Wednesday Movies at Duncan

My mother would always go pick up my Grandmother Pace and take her to the movies in Duncan on Wednesdays. She loved the westerns. Gene Autry, Tex Ritter etc. Dad didn't like the movies and he had my mom do this for his mother.

My Ilnesses & Cures

Every time I got sick my mom was either give me castor oil or enemas or both. Once I got live from one of the Mexican kids at school. My mom put olive oil in my hair. I hated it. When I got a cold or a cough they put mustard packs on my chest. Sometimes they would take a string and dip it in kerosene and put it around your neck.

Tommy Gun and Johnny Mack

When I was about 12, my uncle Johnny Mack Wilson who married my mother's sister Fern was a captain in the army in Domming, New Mexico during WWII. He hated Mexicans. He had been in the border patrol. He gave me a switch blade knife he had taken off a Mexican. During the water sugar was rationed and Dad wanted sugar for his coffee. Johnny Mask brought him a 100 pounds sack of sugar from New Mexico. Johnny Mack and his chauffer came in an army jeep to Virden to bring dad his sugar. He had a tommy gun. He let me shoot it. That was really fun. His chauffeur had one ear that was larger than the other ear. The chauffeur later rolled the jeep and was killed.

Thurgason Store

They had an old style gas pumps with a bottle on top that had markings. You would pump how many gallons you wanted into the top and then put it in the car with the hose. Thurgason would kneel down while he put the gas in the car with a cigarette in his mouth. Dad would make all of us stand back. Thurgasons' son sent back two Lugar pistols to his dad from Germany. I wanted them.

Sugar, gas, candybars were rationed during WWII. They had stamps you had to use to get these items. He would only sell each kid one candy bar per week.

Dad and Radio-WWII

During WWII Dad would sit every night by the radio with a map and would chart the progress of the Allied Armies going toward Germany.

Watermelons

It was a big thing for the kids to steal and eat watermelons from the farmers. We didn't consider it stealing, it was an adventure to try and not get caught.

Nightmares in the Thurgeson House

When I was about 10-12 years old, I used to have nightmares. The one recurring dream that I had often was that I had all these balloon that I was gathering in my arms and they would get away and go to the ceiling, then I would start all over again. I would hear a calm voice talking to me which would bring me out of the nightmare. It was Dad or Mom. I would be standing on the bed. They would calm me down and get me back lying down. Luckily the finally went away.

San Diego

Mom, Dad and I took a trip to San Diego to see Grant. as we went across the sand dunes in Southern California we could see remnants of the old railroad. My dad, Mom and Grant traveled over that road back to New Mexico on that road in an old Model T when they left San Diego when Grant was a baby many years before. We went to Coronado Island in San Diego. That was my first big trip and I saw the ocean.

My Sixth Christmas

My brother, Grant, was home from college. On Christmas Eve my Dad and Grant sent me to bed. I heard all this noise so I peeked out my bedroom door. Grant and dad were putting together a  medium sized Elgin luke for my Christmas.

My Seventh Christmas

My mom had gone to Santa Fe to see her sister, Fern. While she was gone my Dad told me there was no Santa. My mom was really mad at him when she found out.

Boy Scouts

My brother in law, Laurence, was the Scoutmaster. I lacked one week of being 12 and the scouts were going on a two week camping trip up in the mountains and Laurence wouldn't let me go because I wasn't 12 yet.

I enjoyed scouts there until we had a scouting jamboree in our area. There were a lot of contests, such as who could boil water fastest. Laurence entered me in a contest where you were given a piece of 4x4 and you were supposed to cut it up, make a fire and boil water. I had never done it before and I didn't have a hatchet. Someone gave me an old, dull hatchet. Everyone had their water boiling before I even got my fire started. The scout executive decided to make an example of me. He called all the scouts over to show them everything I did wrong. It was very embarrassing to me and I felt like quitting scouting.

I never had a sleeping bag so on camping trips I only had blankets, so was always cold. We had an overnight trip to Steeple Rock by my dad's ranch. I was leading the way down the mountain when I jumped off the rock and landed 6 feet away from a big rattlesnake and jumped back against the rock I had jumped from and slid back down toward the rattlesnake. Luckily he crawled into a bush. The scouts killed him.

My Birth in Virden, New Mexico

I was born at home in a one room adobe house. It was the Richardson house. My mom was having a very difficult time. They got the quack doctor "Neighbors" from Duncan. Mom almost died when I was born. My dad kept passing out and they had to drag him outside. I was born and named William Orlando Pace after my grandfather Pace. Grandma Pace told Mom and Dad they would give me a cow if they named me after him (Orlando). The William was named after my Uncle Bill Cardon.

dad had always teased Mom about being a WOP (Italian). Although they put William Orlando Pace on my birth certificate. My mom realized my initial would be WOP and she didn't want that, so when they had me blessed she changed it to Williams Cardon Pace (Cardon was her maiden name). I was unaware that my name on my birth certificate was William Orlando Pace until 1980 when I needed a copy of my birth certificate to get a passport. I had always gone by William Cardon Pace. I had to get a letter from Sis explaining why it said William Orlando Pace on my birth certificate to get my passport. She told the above story. It was the first time I heard about it.

When I was a baby, Sis, who was 9 years old, dropped me on my head when I threw my head back. I turned blue and stopped breathing. My brother Grant who was 13 years old, was afraid Sis had killed me and he was so angry at her. I was alright, but I told Sis that was the beginning of my mental problems.

Virden

Grandpa Pace established the Geta River Ranch. During the Mexican Revolution around ten years later the Gringos were driven out of Mexico. They bought lots and established the town of Virden. They laid it out like Salt Lake City with wide roads, sidewalks lined with trees. They were large blocks which were divided into four, so each family had a quarter of a block. The sidewalks and roads were dirt.

Virden School was built on a raised part of Virden. It was 1st grade through 12th. There were probably about 300 kids in school. They usually had a good basketball team which won the NEw MExico State Championship several times. My cousin, Clyde Pace, who was about 5'8" was very fast and could jump very high made the state All Stars two years in a row. His brother, Cliff Pace, was 6'4" and couldn't make the All Stars. The school had a nice gym, My dad built all the showers, etc for the the gym. It had a big bell on top. It had a nice play area. At recess we would play marbles and mumbully-peg.

Virden was mostly all Mormons. Some of the families were Jones, Lunt, Smith, Richardson, Jorgensen, Thurgueson, Anderson, Merrill, Clouse, Pace, Fields, Whipples, Jensen, Mortensen, Johns. The church was in the center of town. It was a big church with wooden floors and benches. Every Wednesday night they would show movies at the church.

We had two stores, one on each end of the town. They were general stores that sold groceries and gas. One was owned by the Thurgesons which we sued. The other was owned by the Merrills. The people source of income were the farms (around 40 acres) outside of Virden. The water came from the Gila River through the Sunset Canal. The head of the Gila River was in the San Francisco Mountain in New Mexico. As the river exited from the mountains the cliffs were covered with Petroglyphs made by the Indian. I took Kaye, Greg and Brad to see them. It was neat.

James Orlando Pace

James Orlando Pace was my grandfather. He was born in 1858. He met grandma Nancy Orphea Boggs in the cotton mill in Utah. She was a little black eyed beauty. They got married and moved to Thatcher, Arizona. This is where my father, James Francis Pace was born October 19, 1896. Grandpa established the Gila Valley Ranch above Virden, New Mexico on the Gold River. The ranch house was a big house that had port holes for defense against the Apache Indian raids. Grandpa and Grandma had 13 children.

The oldest daughter married Freeland Moody and had 3 children. They moved to a different place. She was pregnant. A message came that she had died. Someone told him that her husband hit her in the stomach with a hammer. Grandpa saddled up his hose and headed for her place. He dug her up to see if he could tell how she died, but her body was too decomposed for him to tell. A few weeks later, her husband was killed. Grandma Pace raised her daughter's three children.

Grandpa was a very tough person who demanded honesty out of everyone. There was a kind of feud between the Caspers and the Paces. It started when a Casper lied to Grandpa and Grandpa beat him up.

One time Grandpa was in a bar in Duncan, Arizona, and a guy came in and pulled out his gun and told everyone to dance. Grandpa hit him so hard that it crushed the side of his face in. He lay on the floor in the bar. There was no one to take care of him so Grandpa threw him in the wagon and took him to the ranch, where Grandma took care of him until he got better.

Grandpa also had a freight business where he hauled freight on wagons between Lordsburg and  Duncan.

When he was about 50-51 years old they found him on the trail. his wagon had run over him and crushed his chest. They took him to the ranch where he died. Years later when I was in high school in Duncan, the janitor who knew my grandfather told me that he believed that my grandfather was killed. Grandfather had a running battle with this big Mexican guy named Lonzo. He believed that Lonzo had ridden up behind my grandfather, roped him and pulled him underneath the wagon. It could never be proven because Longo was killed in a knife fight a week later.

Cardon Family History

Phillipe Cardon was my great grandfather. He lived in the Pridamont Area of the Italian Alps. they migrated to the US in 1852. The reason they left Italy was because they at one time belonged to the old church. They were the Vadois people. The catholic church had been persucting these people for over a thousand years. They said join the Catholic Church or die. The Catholics would throw the babies up in the air and spear them, they would tie people up in balls and roll them down the steep mountains. Charlemagne decided to send his armies up to the mountains to convert them or kill them. The British General Cromwell told Charlemagne that he would go to war if they continued this persecution of the Vadois people. Charlemagne backed down and made a treaty to stop the persecution. The Vadois people were remnants of the original church Christ formed. They were hardy, rugged people who defended themselves for years. I will insert a complete history of these people.

I would like to tell the story of my family conversions. Lorenzo Snow, a mormon missionary was sent to Italy on a mission. He and his companion were having no luck in southern Italy. They went up on Mt. Brigham and prayed. The Lord told them to go to Northern Italy. Earlier my grandfather's sister who was Mary Magdeline (6 yrs) had a dream which she told to my great grandfather. She dreamt that she was a teenager sitting by her vineyard, keeping the cows out of the vineyard. She saw her father and two men coming toward her. They had a blue book with them and they told her they were bringing the word of God to them. About ten years later after the dream, Lorenzo Snow and his companion were in a neighboring village teaching the gospel. Word of those missionaries got to my great grandfather Cardon. It was about a days journey on foot to this village. He started out and met these missionaries and brought them home with him. When he got there, Mary Magdaline, who was then 16 years old was sitting by the vineyard tending it when they arrived. It was just like her dream. The missionaries taught them. They were converted and baptized. All but the oldest, married daughter left Italy to go to the US. They traveled by ship in New Orleans in 1852. They went across the plains with the Saints to Salt Lake City. Family members dispersed to Ogden, Logan and Idaho. My grandfather, Joseph Samuel Cardon, married two wives and was a polygamist in Utah. In 1890 when the Manifesto was declared against polygamy, the sheriffs raided the polygamist families. My grandfather and his family went to Mexico to keep his family together.

My grandmother Rhoda McClellan ended up in Mexico with her family. They said when she was born she was so small she would fit in a shoe box. Her father was in the Mormon Battallion with my grandfather Pace. When grandma was a baby they came across the plains to Utah. Her father was also a polygamist. Brigham Young sent them to Sunset, Arizona where the United Order was pracitced. It was not being successful there. In 1886 they went to Mexico. They were the first Mormon family to cross into Mexico. This is where Grandma Cardon (she was 18) met Grandpa Cardon. She became his third wife.

The Mormons started a town in Mexico. The church had bought some land for the Mormons who went to Mexico. After they had laid out canals, house, etc a Mexican Cabrone came up with about one hundred of his workers and told them to get off. That this was not the land that the church had bought. They found the right land was a hilly, rocky area with the only water was called Piedera Verde. It was a mossy rock with a little water seeping. They had an earthquake and the green mossy area became a flowing stream that served the whole town. The bishop said "The Lord works in mysterious ways." The town was called "Colonial Juarez". It became one of the best apple growing areas in  Mexico. My family moved to Colonial Dublan. They were about 8 Mormon settlements in Mexico.

My mother, Genevive Cardon, was born in Colonial Dublan on August 10, 1902. She was one of Grandma Cardon's nine children. Grandpa Cardon died of typhoid fever. Grandma Cardon was a widow but she had a nice two story brick home.

There were political revolutionary times during this period. Pancho Villa was one of these. They got their food and supplies from the people in the towns. The Mormons had to walk a tight rope-not favoring either side, the Federals or the Revolutionaries. Pancho Villa hated gringos, but he respected the Mormons. He would take his armies around the Mormon towns. My grandmother made lunch for him and he paid her with a basketful of Mexican money that was worthless at the time.

In 1912 the revolution was becoming so dangerous that General Salizar came into Dublan and told them there was a vattle car that they could take to El Paso. Each family was allowed only one suitcase. My grandma got up that morning, made the beds and took her 9 children and one suitcase and got on the cattle car. The only dress Grandma had was the one she was wearing. Someone stepped on her dress and ripped it. They were dumped off in El Paso, Texas. They were told there were no jobs in El Paso, but there were jobs in Tuscan, Arizona. They went to Tuscan and lived in a tent. One day the tent caught fire and Grandma felt all hope was lost. They went back to El Paso and Uncle Lester, the oldest boy, a young teenager got a job and supported the family. The Cardon family became very successful in El Paso. They had street named for them. Grandma Cardon died in El Paso at nearly 100 years old. She used to tell me many stories of our past.

Uncle Bill and Uncle Earl, my mom's two older brothers went down into Mexico. They were involved in large farms and water businesses. In the 1930's one day a Mexican labore came to Uncle Bill and begged him for a job. Bill said it is off season now and I don't have much work for you. You can leave your family here while you look for a job and we will take care of them. The Mexican came back with the Federals and claimed that because he had worked there for a time and now he owned a part of their land. The farms etc. became tied up in courts for years and finally the Cardon's went back to El Paso. They were tired of trying to deal with the corrupt Mexican government.

Uncle Bill had a lumber yard in Juarez until 1952 when it mysteriously burned down.

One other tactic that the Mexican police tried to use to get rid of them was they drove up in the front of their house and let out a prisoner. He ran to their door and wanted to get in. They knew if they opened the door they would have been shot. It was a set up.

The Jobs I have Had

When I was a boy some of the jobs that I had were doing yardwork, hoeing and picking cotton. I racked and baled hay. I hauled onions. When I was a teenager I worked at service stations in El Paso, Duncan and Safford. I ran the movie projector in Duncan.

After I graduated from high school I had several jobs at Phelps Dodge in Morenci, Arizona. I worked in the machine shop, cabinet shop, power house, smelter and elivered mail. I also owrked on the track as a gandy dancer when I was in college at BYU.

During the summer I worked at a lumbar yard and peach orchard in Merced before I went to BYU.

When I was a student at BYU I had several jobs. I worked on the sprinkler system on the grounds. I also worked as a night janitor scrubbing floors in the Joseph Smith Building. I became a house mover moving turkey houses. When I went to dental school in San Francisco I delivered milk, painted houses and took care of lab research animals. I also taught classes for dental assistants at San Francisco City College.

After I finished dental school at University of the Pacific I started a dental practice in Fremont, California with Hugh Block. Then I opened my own dental practice in Walnut Creek, California. I also taught two days a week at the dental school at the University of the Pacific.

After four years I went back to Orthodontic School at the University of Southern California. They didn't allow us to have outside jobs while I was going to school.

After I graduated from orthodontic school I set up a practice in Santa Cruz, California. I later opened up offices in Aptos, Watsonville, and Boulder Creek, California.

I went into the fishing business with my son, Greg. We first got the Bola, a 24 Skipjacks with a diesel engine. Then we got a big 44 foot steel vessel called the Liahona, which could carry 20 tons of fish.

I sold my practice to Don Connolly and moved to Trail, Oregon where I became a hay rancher. I retired in 2006.

I spent most of my adult life as a dentist and an orthodontist. I started dental school in 1959 and stopped practicing dentistry in 1988.

Life History

My name is William Cardon Pace. I was named William after my uncle Bill Cardon. My middle name Cardon was my mother's maiden name. There is an interesting story about my middle name that I didn't know until I applied for my first passport. I had to get an original copy of my birth certificate. When it came it said William Orlando Pace, but everything else I had, including my church records said Williams Cardon Pace. I called my sister, Fern, to find out why this had happened and she told me this story:

My grandmother Pace offered Mom and Dad a new calf if they would name me William Orlando Pace after my grandfather James Orlando Pace. My folks put that on the birth certificate. Mom thought about it and didn't like the initials WOP because that was a derrogatory name for Italians. Her last name was Italian. She decided to change it to William Cardon Pace before I was blessed at church. She never changed my name on the birth certificate. I had to get a letter from Sis explaining why my name was on the birth certificate was different from my name I had used all my life before I could get my passport. I was born in Virden, New Mexico in an old adobe house. My mom almost died when I was born. She went into convulations. My dad passed out and had to be taken out of the house. Dr. Neighbors from Duncan delivered me. I was born June 9, 1934. I was the third child in the family and the youngest. My father James Franco Pace was born October 19, 1896 in Thatcher, Arizona. My mother Genevieve Cardon was born August 10, 1902 in Colonial Dublan, Mexico. I had an older brother James Grant Pace, who was born June 5, 1921 in Virden, New Mexico. My older sister Rhoda Fern Pace was born August 16, 1925, in El Paso, Texas. Grant was 13 years older than me and Sis was 9 years older than me. I went to school at Virden Elementary School from 1st through 8th grade in Virden, New Mexico. I went to the Animas School for one week in 9th grade and then I went to high school at Austin High School in El Paso, Texas. I lived with Uncle Lester and Aunt Jane and Grandma Cardon. They had a two bedroom home and a screen porch. I slept there and it was very cold during the winter when the snow was blowing.

My mother was put in the hospital as soon as we got to El Paso, Texas. I'd go see her quite often. I had to take buses to get there. Uncle Lester and Aunt Jane were very kind to me. They had a restaurant and said I could eat anything I wanted there. Mom died on February 19 and was buried February 22 and Dad and I left for Duncan, Arizona. I started high school as a freshman at Duncan High School. I graduated from Duncan High School in 1952. I started at Eastern Arizona Junior College in Thatcher, Arizona. I went there a year and started the second year, but I got sick and had to quit. In 1953 my friend Sharon Lunt went to Brigham Young University and told me how great it was and got me to send in $10 to reserve a dorm room. They wrote back and said they were all filled up, but they didn't send back the $10!

In 1954 I was going to join the merchant marines, but I remembered the $10 I had sent them for the dorm room. I wrote them and told them I ought to have a room by now. They said "I had a room". I started BYU the fall of 1954. In 1959 I went to Dental School-The College of Physicians and Surgeons (now the University of the Pacific) in San Francisco, California. After graduating I went to San Francisco State in San Francisco. I was working on a master's degree of education. In 1967 I started Orthodontic School at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, California. I graduated in 1969 with a masters degree in orthodontics.

The organizations I have joined are: Primary, Boy Scouts, Rodeo Club at BYU I was in the Tau Kappa Omega in Dental School and the Yi Psi Phi fraternity in Dental School. I belong to the Arizona and California Dental Associations. I was a member of the Kiwanis Lions Elks Club. I was on the board of the Boys Club in Santa Cruz. i was Little league and Pony League President. The important Church dates were baptism by Laurence A Smith in a canal in Virden, blessing by Junious Payne and Floyd Brown in Virden, New Mexico August 1934.

Some of my callings:
Assistant Scout Master-San Francisco and in Alamo.
Cub Scout Cubmaster-Santa Cruz and Eagle Point
Ensign Leader-Santa Cruz
Elder Quorom Teacher-Santa Cruz
I was also President of Elders Quorom, and counselor of Elder Quorom, Sunday School President, Counselor in High Priests-all in Santa Cruz
Employment Specialist in Eagle Point
Sunday School teacher in Eagle Point
High Priests Teacher in Santa Cruz and Eagle Point

I married Kaye Sylvia Cowley on May 13, 1955 in Provo, Utah. I was married at Bishop Harrison Scott's house and he married us. We got married secretly because Kaye's father thought she was too young to get married and he wanted to stop us.

Our first child was Cathy Pace, she was born in Provo, UT on March 24, 1956. She cost $60 for the hospital bill. Kaye spent 3 days in the hospital and Dr. Riley Clark didn't charge us because Kaye's father was a doctor. Cathy married Mike Masloski in Santa Cruz, California on September 28, 1974. They had two children. Lisa Christine Masloski was born on October 27, 1975 in Omaha, Nebraska. Michael Jason Masloski was born on June 29, 1977 in Omaha, Nebraska. They were divorced on October 1, 1979 in Santa Cruz, California. She married Greg Carleton Hunter on February 1, 1980 in Soquel, California. They had three children. Ryan Edward Hunter was born in Santa Cruz, California on September 30, 1980. He was married to Angel in Eagle Point, Oregon. He is separated from his wife. They have a son Jared, who was born on December 4, 2000. Duston Scott Hunter, who was born in Santa Cruz, California, on December 25, 1982. Ian Gregory Hunter, who was born in Santa Cruz, Californian March 4, 1985.

Lisa Masloski married Greg Mapel in Medford Oregon on May 10, 1996. They have two boys: Gavin Mapel, born in Medord on February 22, 1996, Corbin Alan Mapel born in Medford on September 16, 2002. Michael Jason Masloski was married to Amy on April 11th in Eagle Point. They have three children: Dylan Masloski born in Medford, Ethan Masloski born Feburary 15, 2007, and Kaya Masloski born December 15th in Medford.

Our second daughter, Cindy Pace was born in Provo, Utah on October 31, 1958. It cost $80 for her hospital bill. Dr. Clark against charged no fee. She was married to Robert Kendall Blake on June 22, 1979 in Manti, Utah. She was married in the Manti Temple. They have four children: Amber Cheri Blake who was born in Santa Cruz on April 7, 1980. Amber was married in the Laie Hawaii temple to Matthew Frazier on February 14, 2000. Matt and Amber have two children: Maia Eden Frazier and Lincoln Tyler Frazier. Matt and Amber later divorced. Amber married Roger Daley on July 18th, 2009. Roger has four children from his previous marriage: Berklee, Charlotte, Stacia and Bowman. Berklee has a daughter of her own, Charlee, born in June of 2010.

Austin William Blake was born on January 11, 1982 in Santa Cruz. He married Stacie Nicole Peterson (born October 22, 1984) on August 6, 2005, in the Mount Timpanogos, Utah Temple. They have three children, all born in Salt Lake City: Sunnie May Blake (June 1, 2009), Josie Nicole Blake (August 4, 2011), and Corbin Bradley Blake (August 10, 2013). Austin is a returned missionary and BYU chemical engineer.

Ashley Krystal Blake was born in Santa Cruz on February 19, 1984. She married Casey Summers on July 31, 2005 in the Idaho Falls Temple. They have four children: Arianna, Cason, Calvin and Alora.

Adam James Blake was born August 22, 1988. He married Annalisa in July of 2012. They have two sons: Jarem and Levi.

Gregory Scott Pace was born on September 9, 1964 at Walnut Creek, California. He was married to "Bonnie" Sharon Anton Whitaker in Soquel, California on December 14, 1985. They had two children: James Dylan Pace, who was born July 26, 1986 in Santa Cruz, and Alicia Marie Pace, who was born August 22, 1988 in Santa Cruz. Bonnie and Greg were divorced in Santa Cruz. Greg married Louise Marie Rudy on June 2, 1992 in Santa Cruz. They were later married in the Oakland Temple. They had one child, Megan Marie Pace, born on January 27, 1995 in Santa Cruz. Louise had two children, Danica and Justin when they were married. Louise and Greg were divorced in Santa Cruz. Louise has remarried twice since their divorce. Greg is single.

Bradley William Pace was on May 4, 1966 in Walnut Creek, California. He died of cancer on March 13, 1981 in Soquel, California. He was 14 years old.

William Cardon Pace

1950's

Alamo about 1967

About 1968

Christmas in Alamo about 1970

Williamsburg about 1975

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