Christmas Gift!

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Across
  1. 2. I have a name that almost matches one of your nick names. I died in Tooele during WW11.
  2. 4. I lived a colorful life full of adventure and moxie. I was one of the earliest pioneers and devoted my life to the gospel.
  3. 7. I sang and danced my way through life, and was called "Ship".
  4. 8. I may look delicate, but living in Idaho for my whole life make me strong. My first and last initials are the same letter.
  5. 10. You get your tennis prowess from me. I played in college and loved sharing sports with my sons.
  6. 12. I was a first generation American after my parents brought us to the US from Italy. I loved riding horses and sharing that love with my daughter, Karma
  7. 13. You eat my special jello salad every time the Barlows get together. I am remembered for being jolly and stout.
  8. 14. I came with my mother from Switzerland when we converted to the Mormon faith. Don't worry about the symbol on my lapel - I fully supported the US during WW11.
  9. 17. I left my family to come to the US to work for my uncle. I worked in a movie theater in Tooele as a projectionist in the 1900s.
  10. 19. I left my Italian homeland with my young family to settle in Utah. My granddaughter, remembers me speaking Italian and cooking delicious foods.
  11. 20. I raised two girls in Tooele, UT, sometimes all alone after my divorce. I was a fierce and loyal mother to your grandma.
Down
  1. 1. Age won't stop me! I'll try new things till the day I drop.
  2. 3. I was born in paradise and always looked my best. I was classy, and taught my son to love music and act refined.
  3. 5. I emigrated from Denmark as a child, and spent four years working to build the Manti Temple. I even ran for governor of Utah.
  4. 6. Your uncle is named after me. I was drafted into the army in WW1. Don't let my long face fool you, I was a devoted and loving father.
  5. 9. You visited me through the window during covid. I loved to keep track of you by reading your newspaper.
  6. 11. People didn't call me by my first name. I went by the initials J.L. I also was a principal for many years.
  7. 15. My family went to America without me when I was a baby. My dad snatched me off the boat from my mother's arms. But my son later went to America and joined my brother.
  8. 16. In Salina, they called me "the bread man" because I ran the store and shared flower with the POW's. Christmas is my middle name!
  9. 18. I grew up and lived in Salina and Fayette in the earliest days of their settlement. I was a midwife. People loved to say my last name wrong, substituting an R in place of the L.