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Browning, Myrtle Goddard, 1899-1965

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1899 - 1965

Biographical History

Myrtle Goddard Browning was born May 14, 1899, in Ogden, Utah, to Hyrum Harrison and Elizabeth Margaret Stanford. In 1930, she took a trip with her friend Nellie Harper to Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Alaska. The following year, 1931, Myrtle and Nellie embarked on an "around the world" trip which lasted approximately four months. On August 2, 1935, Myrtle Goddard married George Lawrence Browning in the Logan Utah temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Myrtle Goddard Browning and her husband, George Lawrence Browning, had two daughters: Kate Browning Handley and Jerry Elizabeth Browning Evans.

Over the course of their marriage, the family lived in a variety of locations including Salt Lake City, Utah, and Placerville, California, where George L. Browning worked for the United States Bureau of Reclamation. George Browning died November 27, 1956. Myrtle Goddard Browning died October 22, 1965, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Citation:
UPB files, April 3, 2020 (Myrtle Goddard; born May 14, 1899, in Ogden, Utah, to Hyrum Harrison and Elizabeth Margaret Stanford; in 1930, took a trip with her friend Nellie Harper to Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Alaska; in 1931, Myrtle and Nellie embarked on an "around the world" trip; married George Lawrence Browning on August 2, 1935; had two daughters Kate Browning Handley and Jerry Elizabeth Browning Evans; lived in a variety of locations including Salt Lake City, Utah, and Placerville, California, where George L. Browning worked for the United States Bureau of Reclamation; died October 22, 1965, in Salt Lake City, Utah)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Whirl around the world : a trip taken by Nellie Harper and Myrtle Goddard

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7255
Scope and Contents Collection includes a bound photocopy of Nellie Harper's 1931 journal and scrapbook of her "around the world" trip. Extended and thoughtful typewritten journal entries, with photographs and related ephemera, document her experiences with her traveling companion, Myrtle Goddard, as they traveled by ship, rail, and bus from the United States to Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore-Penang, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Wales, and the United States. ...
Dates: 1931-2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Whirl around the world : a trip taken by Nellie Harper and Myrtle Goddard

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