My parents were John Amasa Bennett and Geneva Coffin who
were married in the Salt Lake Temple on October 9th, 1901. I was the
first child born to this union on January 26, 1903, in a little two room house
in Arimo, Idaho. I attend school in the Virginia District and church in the
Cambridge and Virginia Wards. When I was 14 years old I was made secretary of
the Virginia Ward Sunday School. This position I held until we moved to Rupert,
Idaho in November 1919. I attended
Business College in Boise and my first position was at the Albion Normal School
during the summer school. At the close of summer school I accepted a position
with the Minidoka Irrigation District and lived at home. We attended the
Acequia Ward. I was a Sunday School teacher there and also Stake Religion Class
Secretary. When the Minidoka Stake was formed in 1923 I became Stake Secretary
of the Young Ladies Organization. Sister Cynthia Roberts was the president.
This position I held until I was called on a mission in March 1931 to the East
Central States. My first assignment was to the mission office where I served as
Mission corresponding secretary to President Miles L Jones. I remained in the
mission office for 15 months then was transferred to the West Virginia South
District where I remained until I was released from my mission in April 1933
after serving nearly 25 months. On my
return home I was again made a teacher in the Sunday School, also served as
president of Young Ladies in the Acequia Ward and later as President of the
Primary organization. I was released
from the Primary of the Acequia Ward when we moved to the Rupert First War in
1937. Here I became a Sunday School
Teacher, a teacher in the MIA, Literature teacher in the Relief Society when I
was called to be a counselor to Sister Lula Anderson in May 1941.
I was married to William A Stevenson on March 8, 1934, in
the Logan Temple. We have three children: Geneva Mae, John Albert, and Bud
Lavell.
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