Kenneth Glyn Hales

My cousin Kenneth Glyn Hales died in the evening of March 7, 2015.  He is said to be 81 years of age.  He was related to Elder Hales who is an Apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Ken would give the genealogy report at the family reunions.  Ken wrote three book about family history.  They were huge books.  Like a good three inches thick. 

One of the memories of the Hales family is a car accident that happened near Lovelock, Nevada on August 6, 1954.  The family went to Disneyland and on the way back to Utah were hit by a speeding drunk driver and five of them were killed.  Killed were father and mother Frank and Eugenie Hales, daughter Julie and sons Don and Que.  Nikki Hales was the lone survivor.  Nikki also survives Ken and was at one time a inner city missionary in Salt Lake City for the LDS Church.  Ken was in the Air Force at the time of the accident.  Elva had already married.  Monte, who is now deceased, had also left home. 

In the home where grew up was a picture of Frank and Eugenie.  I often saw that picture and my mother often told me of the accident.  Whenever I saw that picture I got the impression that they were in the presence of God.  They went to a far better place despite the very tragic accident that they had here on this planet.  I felt that they did not go to any intermediary place but straight to the presence of god.  They were devout members of their church and Eugenie was the Relief Society President for the 29th Ward. 

What a reunion that Ken is having with his parents and all his family members that he has studied and written about.  He had a few lines in his ancestry that were pioneers.  Pulsipher and Burgess just to name a couple.  One of the Pulsiphers baptized Willford Woodruff who was one of the Presidents of the  LDS Church.  What a glorious occasion to be reunited with your parents after sixty and one half years.