Jasper Carolina WADE

                   REFN5 MAMIE ADELINE WADE FUTRELL (Great-great grandmother of KELSEY ELIZABETH DENKERS) was str ictly a family and church-going oriented person. She loved to sing and play the organ and pia no by ear as she couldn't read music. Hard worknever frightened her, actually she thrived o n it. And she loved to travel. These things had been familiar to her as she was growing up. MAMIE was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Sa ints March26, 1917, by Leroy E. Marsh in Kelsey, Texas. MAMIE was now 18. On her 19th birthd ay, she celebrated it by picking 100 pounds of cotton for each year of herlife. She was plea sed with that accomplishment. She went from Kelsey, Texas toIndependence, Missouri and worke d in the Mission Home when Pres. Samuel O. Bennion lived there and while he presided over th e Central States Mission. She enjoyed working with the missionaries for nearly 2 years befor e being releasedand returning to Kelsey. Shortly after this, she met JAMES BRAXTON FUTRELL, courted with him for awhile and the y were married on Oct. 14, 1925, to start another courtship which was to last almost 40 year s and never really end even withhis death in 1965. It was only interrupted by 13 years unti l their reunitingon April 12, 1978. She was assured of this because of her life and the fac t that she was sealed to JAMES BRAXTON FUTRELL in the Salt Lake Temple on August 12, 1929, b y Elder George F. Richards.(BRENT DENKERS' GREAT GREAT UNCLE) MAMIE lived in Kelsey at a time when it was the only Mormon community in East Texas. Sh e met many men and women missionaries who were later to become leaders in thechurch--David O .McKay, Heber J. Grant, Elray Christiansen, Henry D. Moyle, tomention a few. They all influe nced her life. She was a loving and devoted mother to her 2 sons and enjoyed her role as a housewife. S he loved to dance andshe and her husband were in many exhibitions with 4 or 5 couples repres entingEast Texas at Gold and Green Balls. She enjoyed working in her garden. She andher hus band owned a dairy business on a 2 and a half acre farm in Texas whichthey sold when they we nt to Utah. Now, with World War II going, the Futrell family began their travels. First, to U tah in 1942, back to Texas, and then to California in 1944, where  MAMIE found herself livin g in Glendale and working near Lockheed. MAMIE and her family moved to Burbank and then to Hi ghland Park,where she and BRAXTON lived until he became disabled. MAMIE AND BRAXTON serveda full life, they had filled two stake missions and served seve ral other church assignments while living in Highland Park. After BRAXTON passed away in 1965, she lived in an apartment in Burbank, California unti l she fell and broke her hip in 1974. From that point her life changed to total dependancy o n others.She never fully recovered after being confined to the hospital for over a year. She 'd always look forward to attending church with her family every Sunday.This was the highlig ht of her life now. She seemed to be improving, but in trying to walk on her own she fell an d broke her arm. Her health steadily worstened; in her last days she was almost totally bedri dden.She had a surprise visitby her brother, J.C., from Texas just a week and a half befor e she died whichbrightened her life for a few days. MAMIE ADELINE FUTRELL leaves a heritage ofsimple quiet greatness for her posterity.  THESE WORDS WERE TAKEN FROM HER EULOGY AS WRITTEN BY HER SONS.  THE FOLLOWING IS A LETTER WRITTEN BY MAMIE FUTRELLTO HER GRANDDAUGHTER, GAIL FUTRELL ON MARCH 22, 1964.  Dear Gail, Hope you canread this story as it came to my mind I wrote it. Grandpaw said tell you he can't write so I put some of his history of life along in the letter. I'll l et him sine his name, its nice of you to want a history of us. Gail, I wish you could of come for a week. We would of went to conference. Tell all hell o. Love from Grandmaw  To my Granddaughter, Gail, A brief s