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In memory of Earnest Cecil Pearce. He was born in Beaver,
Utah on November 17, 1907 to Richard Pearce and Lottie Lavern Paschall.
Earn had seven brothers and sisters: brother Richard Obra Pearce born on January 25, 1901
in Adamsville, Beaver County, Utah; brother Othello Paschell Pearce born on October 4, 1902
in Minersville, Beaver County, Utah; sister Leah Larue Pearce born on August 17, 1904,
in Minersville; sister Ennes Follette Pearce born on July 14, 1909 in Beaver City, Beaver
County, Utah; sister Zelma Pearce born in Beaver City; brother Garth Pearce born in Beaver
Ciy; and sister Margaret Altheda Pearce born on September 4, 1915 in Beaver City.
Earn and his sister.
Richard and Lottie moved from Adamsville, Beaver County, Utah to Minersville, Beaver County
which is about 5 miles west in about 1900. They moved to Beaver City, 17 miles to the East in
about 1906
Earn married Letty Marie Jensen on September 7, 1937 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had 9 children:
Anne Marie, born February 23, 1928; Earnest Ray, born December 4, 1929;
Norma Jean,born June 15, 1931; Helen Joan, born January 15, 1933; (Twins)
Zelma and Zora, born April 15, 1935; David Niels, born September 29, 1937;
Edward Garth, born December 20, 1940 and Douglas Dale, born August 15, 1943.
All of the children were born in Beaver City, Beaver County, Utah except
Edward Garth who was born in Moab, Grand County, Utah
Letty & Earn 1927
Anne Marie died February 22, 1995 in West Valley, Utah; Zora died August
22, 1994 in Springville, Utah and Earnest Ray died August 26, 2011 in Magna, Utah
Earn was a state highway patrolman, first in Beaver City, Utah,
then in Moab, Grand County, Utah, then again back in Beaver City. The family moved
to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1955 where he retired.
Earn Pearce, Utah State Highway patrolman
Earn died in his home in Salt Lake City, Utah
on December 20, 1979 after a lingering battle with cancer.
Earn, wife Letty, Ray Easton, John and Faye Williams, Ed and Clerynth Larson
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
(Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!)
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