Eleanor Fae Heslop (1923-2009) was the wife of J Malan Heslop. Eleanor Fae Heslop, who was known throughout her life as Fae, was born Eleanor Fae Stokes to Joseph Alfred Stokes and Georgiana Petersen on November 29, 1923. She met J Malan Heslop at Weber College, Ogden, Utah, and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on 12 May 1944. J shipped out for Europe almost immediately while Fae worked at the Boy Scout office in Ogden, Utah. After World War II they moved to Logan, Utah, where J attended Utah State Agricultural College and Fae worked in the purchasing department of the college. They moved to Salt Lake City in 1948 when J joined the Deseret News staff as chief photographer.

J and Fae raised a family of five children—Paul, daughter Lyn, Scott, Ann, and Don and became the grandparents of nineteen. During J’s busy career, Fae was not often able to accompany him on his international travels; however, in 1985 she was one of the tour guides on the BYU “Temples of Europe and Lands of the Bible Tour.” Although she didn’t contribute photographs she did maintain a journal of this trip. She served with J as mission president of the Chicago North Mission in the late 1980s.

It was during J’s retirement years that they were able to travel extensively, including internationally, and Fae became an important photographer in documenting these trips. After almost 65 years of marriage, Fae passed away on 21 March 2009.

Jesse Heslop (1892-1979) was a farmer, an amateur photographer, and the father of J Malan Heslop. Jesse Heslop was born 22 December 1892 in West Weber, Weber, Utah, to George Heslop and Cynthia Lois Green, the fifth son and seventh child of a family of thirteen. His father was a horse breeder and a farmer and Jesse followed the family tradition. He met his future wife, Zella Malan, while attending Weber Academy, later Weber College, in Ogden, Utah. They did not marry until 27 April 1921 in the Salt Lake Temple because Jesse chose to answer a mission call received in December 1916 from Joseph F. Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Jesse was to serve almost four years in Tahiti from 1917-1920, arriving home on 16 October 1920. Jesse continued his life’s work as a farmer as their family grew with the birth of their three children—J Malan, LeRoyden, and Sharon—and subsequently fifteen grandchildren. Jesse acquired a glass plate camera around 1906 and, by the time J was born in 1923, Jesse had the popular Kodak roll film folding camera. He inspired J with the same love of photography, even using their kitchen as a dark room one night to show him how to make photo prints. In 1958, Jesse traveled with his oldest son, J, to England for the dedication of the LDS London Temple. They spent almost a month in England and Jesse took numerous photographs and was even featured on the cover a Church News in a photograph taken by his son J. His wife, Zella, passed away on 23 December 1975 and on 30 April 1979, Jesse Heslop passed away at his home in Salt Lake City.