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Thea Daniel collection on Irene Smart Weaver and Retta Hanks Gilbert

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 8303

Scope and Contents

Contains nine audio cassettes of the personal oral histories of Irene Smart Weaver and Retta Hanks Gilbert, two Latter-day Saint women from Idaho and Utah. Dated 1966-2002.

Dates

  • 1966-2002

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Thea Daniel collection on Irene Smart Weaver and Retta Hanks Gilbert must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Biographical History

Retta Hanks Gilbert (1907-2007) was a Latter-day Saint woman from Utah.

Retta Arthella Hanks was born on April 22, 1907 in Caineville, Utah to Walter Ernest Hanks and Mary Ellen Stewart. She married Ernest George McKinley Aschmann on July 9, 1932 in Sparks, Nevada. After his death she married James Pilch Gilbert on June 7, 1941 in Reno, Nevada. She served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the late 1920s. She died on March 13, 2007 in Provo, Utah.

Biographical History

Irene Smart Weaver (1909-1977) was a Latter-day Saint woman from Idaho.

Irene Smart was born on September 30, 1909 at Georgetown, Idaho to Abel and Emma Irene Staley Smart. She married Melvin Weaver on November 30, 1927 in Logan, Utah. She was active in church and civic affairs in her community of Grace, Idaho. She died there on May 22, 1977.

Biographical History

Thea Daniel (1949-) is a librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library.

Thea Asay Daniel was born in 1949 to Lynn J. and Nellie Judd Asay. She married M. Roy Daniel who passed away in 2003. Thea Daniel works as a librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library. She is the mother of one daughter and grandmother to three.

Extent

1 microfilm box (0.5 linear ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

Donated by Thea Daniel in 2011 and 2012.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated; Thea Daniel; 2011 and 2012.

Appraisal

LDS, Utah, and Western American women (20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy 5.V, August 2007.)

Processing Information

Processed; Pete Hoyt, student manuscript processor, and John M. Murphy, curator; 2013.

Title
Register of the Thea Daniel collection on Irene Smart Weaver and Retta Hanks Gilbert
Status
Completed
Author
Peter Hoyt and John M. Murphy
Date
2013 November 7
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English in Latin script.

Repository Details

Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository

Contact:
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States