Norma Mills, 1934 - 3013

Obituary for Norma Mills Shiner

1934 ~ 2013
Norma Jean Mills Shiner, age 78 passed away February 6, 2013 in Bountiful, Utah. 
She was born November 30, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Milford Millard Mills and Phyllis Daynes Mills. Norma married Craig R. Shiner April 11, 1963 in the Logan, Utah temple. 
Norma graduated from U of U in education 1957, served in Brazilian Mission 1959-1961. Active in Boy Scouting 36 years, taught 4th grade for 8 years. 
She is survived by husband Craig, sons Jon, Rob (Julie), Scott (Tammy), Dan (Aubrey), Tom (Laurel), and brother Ken (Chris) Mills, Daniel (Michelle), Kate, and 15 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by brother Raymond Mills.
Viewing: Friday February 15 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday February 16: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Services 12:00 p.m. at Mueller Park 2nd Ward 1825 South 850 East Bountiful, Utah. Interment in Bountiful City Cemetery following services.
The family wishes to express sincere thanks to Tender Care Hospice for compassionate, attentive, professional services rendered. 
Funeral Directors: UT Valley Mortuary. Condolences: www.uvfuneral.com

Guest book:

http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/saltlaketribune/guestbook.aspx?n=norma-shiner&pid=163049902&cid=full

Norma on the far right, 1961.  Baptism of Suelena and Justino Gonzaga, Santos.  Others: President Saul Messias by Norma and Mary Etta Watson Parkinson, far left.  

April 2013 Reunion

Bangerter Group Reunion, April 4^th, 2013:                           

Our annual get-together will be held on Thursday, April 4^th, 2013, at the Alpine Stake Center, 98 East Canyon Crest Rd in Alpine, just north of the Bangerter farm.  The meeting will begin at 6 p.m.  This will be a good time to visit and bring each of us up-to-date with activities in Brazil.  Also, a few individuals will be talking about their recent activities with the saints in Brazil.  Guaranã and some snacks will be available as well.

For additional information, contact Kim Russell at (801)432-7463, or by e-mail at kim@therussells.net.

Season of Celebrating -- Geri Bangerter's 89th

Dear Beloved Brazilian Missionaries,

You are invited to join the Bangerter family in a celebration of

Geraldine Hamblin Bangerter’s 89th birthday. We are grateful for her

health and strength at this time. We have planned a season of

celebrating rather than a single day. She would love to see any of you

who are able to visit and would also be happy with a phone call.

Mother is still bright in her spirit and mind although she often uses

a walker to get around. She has made a remarkable recovery from her

stroke nearly two years ago. To commemorate good doctor reports she

went to Disneyland with Duella and her family after Christmas and had

a wonderful time riding around on Dad's motorized wheelchair.

Celebration season: Sunday February 24th  through Sunday March 3rd.

Open House times:

   Sunday, Feb. 24    2-8 PM

   Monday, Feb. 25   12-8 PM

   Sunday, March 3    2-8 PM

If you would like to come at another time during the week, call Geri

at 801.756.4236. or 801.897.0554 (cell)

Location:  Bangerter Farm, 542 S. Alpine Hwy., Alpine, UT 84004

For your information:

Geraldine’s recently printed biography, titled Welcome the Task, will

be available for purchase for $15.00 per copy for anyone who drops by

the house.   She would love to sign your copy.  She’s very excited

about this warm and charming full-color, beautifully designed 320 page

memoir.  Her granddaughter Heidi Shin has worked with her for over a

decade to transcribe interviews, search through journals and letters,

take photos and assemble artifacts. You will especially appreciate the

in-depth chapter about her time in Brazil. If you are not able to

visit for her birthday, but would like to purchase the book for

yourself and your family members, call Julie Beck, 801.518.9994, Heidi

Beck Shin 801.318.2043, or Cory Bangerter  801.885.3628.  Or, email:

corybangerter@hotmail.com, hjuneshin@gmail.com;

juliebbeck@comcast.net.

Much love to you,

Julie B. Beck

PS: For info about this and upcoming reunions and activities check our

mission website at: www.therussells.net/Brazil/

Carol Wheeler Brumfield, Brazil Missionary 1958-1960

Carol Brumfield

Obituary

Guest Book

1933 - 2012
Carol Beth Wheeler Brumfield died Monday, December 3rd, 2012. Heaven has received a remarkable angel. Carol was born October 31, 1933 to Fred C. and Geraldine Sutton Wheeler in Logan, Utah. She served an LDS mission in Brazil before marrying her sweetheart, Carlie G. Brumfield on January 14, 1967. They were later sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and had three sons.
Carol graduated from BYU as an RN, where she later taught nursing. She dedicated her life to helping others, working as an RN for many years at LDS Hospital in SLC, UT; Women's Hospital in Baton Rouge, LA; and Mountain View Hospital in Payson, UT. She also worked as Community Education Director for Primary Children's Hospital. In her later years, she returned to Brazil on a medical humanitarian mission.
Carol is survived by her three sons Paul (Jennifer) of Spanish Fork; Scott (Jodi) of Santa Clara, UT; Ryan (Sandy) of Ivins, UT; and 12 grandchildren. She is also survived by Brothers Jim (Cathy) Wheeler and Frederick Wheeler of Salt Lake City; and by step-children John (Heidi) Hoop of Broken Arrow, OK; Julie (Greg) Littleton of Tulsa, OK; Lisa (Kevin) Arrington of Cowetta, OK and 12 step-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband and parents.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 7, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at the Hawthorne LDS Ward Chapel, 808 East Roosevelt Avenue (1450 South), Salt Lake City. Viewings will be held on Thursday, December 6th from 6pm-8pm at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple and on Friday, December 7th from 10am-11am at the Ward. Burial will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Published in Salt Lake Tribune from December 5 to December 6, 2012 

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=Carol-Brumfield&pid=161489306#fbLoggedOut

LDS Portuguese-Language Blog.

For your information, Kim and I are both doing Sharing the Gospel Online church-service missions.  Nice to see him after all these years.  Among other things Kim has created facebook pages and googleplaces listings for Brazil Institutes of Religion.  He is now assisting  Richard Robbins, our Sharing the Gospel Online supervisor, launch a Portuguese-language blog.  This is what they do:



"We’ve been working on the new Brazil site on LDS.org .  The main purpose of setting up a blog is to point searches to the Church’s official website for Brazil.  Doing that improves the rankings of the Church’s official site. 

"Getting traffic to the  Portuguese blog is somewhat of a secondary priority.  For those who do visit, we want to have useful and enjoyable content.  Since I [Richard] like to talk about religion and politics, I’ll be writing articles about those subjects as well as others that interest me.  If I put enough blog entries on that site (10-20), it will begin to get some recognition and authority from Google, and I can then pass that authority to the Church’s official sites." 


Richard and Kim's invitation to you Portuguese speakers/writers:
 "You can sign up on this site to blog in Portuguese and help our new Brazil website:

"On your posts, you can link to pages on http://www.lds.org.br.  "


 Click on this link for a sample of a blog entry.

Add your entries, comments, likes, etc.  If you have questions you can contact Richard, sr@ldschurch.org or Kim, kim@therussells.net.

Photos from President Grant Bangerter Era,

Kim Russell sent these photos from our era.

A outra foto é da família Bangerter.  Achei bonitinha a expressão no rosto de Julie! (Não sei o ano)

A foto foi tidada atrás do Jeep da missão (Aug, 1961). 

Portuguese Immersion Utah Schools Announced

From The Brasulista, 23 May 2012.  Courtesy of Alf Gunn.

New Utah Dual Immersion Program in Portuguese
In view of the importance of Brazil in the global community today and in coming years, Utah School Districts will offer Portuguese dual emersion programs at three elementary schools beginning in the Fall, 2012, . . . IF THEY CAN ENROLL ENOUGH FIRST GRADE STUDENTS IN THE PROGRAM. There is still room for more students in each of the three schools participating.

In the beginning, in 2012, ONLY FIRST GRADERS will be enrolled.  They will progress in coming years.  

Students in the program achieve high proficiency in the immersion language and do well in other standardized tests of English and math administered in English. 

Why Portuguese?  With over 220 million speakers, Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world. Because of Brazil’s rapidly expanding economy, many American businesses are eager to hire Portuguese speakers. Children who speak Portuguese can generally understand and learn Spanish with little difficulty.

To enroll, parents should contact Lakeview Elementary in the Provo School District, Parkside Elementary in the Murray School District or rocky Mountain Elementary in the Alpine School District.

Parents are asked to commit to long-term participation in the immersion program, including reading with the child in English 20-30 minutes daily and encouraging the use of Portuguese outside of school.  They also will need to provide transportation to the schools offering the program.

Dual Immersion (already offered in Spanish, Chinese and French) offers a rich bilingual experience for young learners at an age when their minds are developmentally best able to acquire a second language. Instruction is divided between two high quality, creative classrooms: one in English and one Portuguese. Subject matters meet the Utah State Core Curriculum. In a short time the students will speak only in Portuguese during Portuguese class.

For more information:  Utah’s Dual Immersion Website

http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/dualimmersion

Jaime Leite, Portuguese Dual Immersion Coordinator, jamieleite@gmail.com