Thatcher Family

The Story of My Life
By, Bonnie E. Lorenc
May 29, 1976

I was born May 10, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah in a small nursing¹ home. Most of my early memories centered in Ogden, Utah where my Father went to work at the Union Pacific O.U.R. & D. Railroad. 

The mountains, known as the Wasatch Range, were very important to me as a child growing up in Ogden. I can see them in my mind's eye, even now, as stalwart, strong friends. I am a "mountain child".

I was always felt very protective and close to my Mother, and loved to brush her hair, listen to stories, and go window shopping. She was^is fun to go places & do things with. She was^is a wonderful Mother.

My father was a railroad man & was usually dressed in his overalls and railroad cap, gloves & scarf, checking the time often on his round watch on a chain.

I was always somewhat timid around him because he was big & gruff and not given to much socializing, but I felt proud of his place on the railroad and will always feel a certain "romance" with the sound of a train whistle or engines, or cars.

I knew that my parents loved each other and my sister & brother & I and felt very secure in our world.

1 Mrs Tahge's nursing home