Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

Roy Emanuel Lundquist (1902-1965)

From the Theodore Turley Family Book, p. 504

         Roy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Richard and Grace Bushman Lundquist.  He married Leila Cotterell in the Salt Lake Temple on June 19, 1929.  They had three children, all born in Salt Lake City.

Roy served a mission to Germany in 1922.  He graduated as a civil engineer from the U. of Utah. After graduation, because of the depression, he worked for the Salt Lake City Engineer Dept. for $90 a month.  He soon landed a better job with the Utah State Road Commission.  The first day was on the Great Salt Lake desert with 129 degree temperature in the shade.  In 1935 he took a civil service offer with the U.S. Engineers at Sacramento.  In 1939 he transferred back to Salt Lake, this time as hydrologic engineer with the U.S. Weather Bureau.  The war upset this program in 1942 and he was offered the chance to fill a vacancy at Hartford, Connecticut as "weatherman." He was one of the first weathermen broadcasting on the radio.  In addition to work, he and his family were very involved and happy with the church in New England.

After the war Roy was called to Cincinnati, Ohio to take charge of the new river forecasting unit; of the weather bureau for the Ohio Valley.  He remained in Cincinnati until he died on Sept. 27, 1965 of a heart attack.  A comment he made in a letter concerning his life:  "We haven't accumulated any wealth during our rolling around the country but we have had some wonderful experiences and satisfactions.  It has helped the children more than it has hindered them.  It has helped them most to appreciate the gospel and the church and has given them confidence.  Parents seem to derive most of their blessings in later life from the successes and development of their children along the lines that they wanted them to go."

He tried to serve the Lord with all his heart, mind and strength.  In addition to his call as a missionary in the Swiss German Mission, he initiated the Scout Explorer program while in Salt Lake City.  In Sacramento he was MIA superintendent, on the High Council; in Salt Lake City he was a member of the stake Sunday School Board; in Hartford he served as branch president and district president.  In Cincinnati he was district president, a member of the district council, stake Sunday School superintendent, branch president, bishop, stake missionary, and a counselor in the stake mission presidency.  In addition to this he had numerous teaching assignments and was a patriarch when he passed away

Children of Roy and Leila Cotterell Lundquist: Joanne Louise, Richard LeRoy, John Steven

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