Nora Fern (Judd) CARROLL MARTIN

JUDD, CARROLL, MARTIN, ZIMMERMAN, SCHERMERHORN, ODELL, VELDHOUSE, BEERS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/28/2008 at 11:24:56

Salt Lake Tribune, Utah
August 15, 1995

Nora Fern Judd was born May 25, 1905 in Fayette County, Iowa. She was the fourth of five children born to Lyman Judd (1865-1941) and Cora Rebecca Zimmerman Judd (1876-1946). The first third of her life was spent happily growing and teaching in Iowa. On August 12, 1995 she was the fourth to rejoin her parents, following brother Darrel Judd (1909-1919), sister, Clella Schermerhorn, Hazelton, Iowa (1898-1953) and Dorotha Odell, Oakland, California (1903-1967). She regretfully leaves her sister, Lila Veldhouse of Clarion, Iowa (1900-).

"Nona" married Freeman David Carroll of Vernal, Utah on June 15, 1943. A daughter, Edna Kay, was born on Christmas Day in 1944, Oregon City, Oregon. Her brief life with "Free" ended with his death near Vernal in 1951. She lovingly cared for her mother-in-law, Esther Carroll, during her marriage to Free and until her death in 1952. After a brief return to the Northwest, she resumed her life as a teacher in Los Angeles, California at Saint Jerome Elementary where she remained until 1966. She and "Kay" spent every summer with family in Clarion, Iowa. In 1966 she married long time friend of the family, Walter Martin of Atlantic, Iowa and joined him (as she did "Free") "on the road" in his life as a salesman. She was separated from a loved one once more when Walter died suddenly in 1978. In 1980, she joined Kay and her grandchildren in Salt Lake City, Utah. While living there she worked for several years in Hammond's Children's Shop in the Cottonwood Mall, gaining much more in her association with all the people she worked with and met than in any monetary earnings.

After growing up on the family farm near, and later in, Hazelton, Iowa, she put herself through school and received her teaching certificate in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Nona started teaching in a one room school house with a pot belly stove and devoted a lifetime of unreserved and unselfish service and caring to everyone she came in contact with, especially the children having problems. Her only "hobbies" were people and travel. And maybe crossword puzzles. She met all life's many challenges with a firm faith that gave her a calm dignity, strength, courage, and grace. Her last challenge was the greatest, taking her independence and self-reliance. After three years of steadily declining strength, her heart finally wore out after compensating for valves that were unknowingly damaged years ago. She was very proud of the fact that in all the years of working, she lost only 3 days to illness.

She left a strong and lasting example and legacy to those she temporarily leaves behind, her daughter, Kay Beers, grandsons, Erik, Shawn, and Nathan Veldhouse; son-in-law, Robert C. Beers, all of Salt Lake City; granddaughter, Rebecca Veldhouse, currently of Southern California; sister, Lila, of Clarion, Iowa; and other nieces and nephews and family across the country. She will miss all of you.

Her advise to all would be "Take one day at a time, do the best you can and then don't look back". And especially "DON'T EVER STOP WORKING!!". Grandma, we'll miss you. Family and friends may call at the Cannon Mortuary, 2460 E. Bengal Blvd. (7600 South), Salt Lake City, Tuesday, August 15, 1995 from 7-9 p.m. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, August 16, 1995, 12 noon, at the Maeser Fairview Cemetery, Vernal, Utah.