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1 Leon Arnold Westover is the first born of the first generation of Westovers of the 20th century in his branch of the family.

Born to Arnold and Mary Ann Smith Westover in 1915, Leon would become the first of his family to serve a mission and to graduate from college.

He married Maurine Riggs in 1940.

Leon was about 30 years old at the outbreak of WWII but was ineligible to serve due to an injury to his arm he suffered on the farm as a boy.

During the war Leon and Maurine served as school teachers at a Japanese Relocation Center in Topaz, Utah. Leon later join UNNRA, a United Nations relief agency dedicated to post-war recovery of Europe.

Leon and Maurine had six children - Kyle, Alan, LaRee, and Keith. Two sons, Reeves and Stephen, did not survive birth.

Leon and Maurine both had careers in education and dedicate service to the Church, temple and family history work through out their lives.  
Westover, Leon Arnold (I26)
 
2 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Gillen, Sandra Elene (I5)
 
3 Susanne C. Begich was born on her father's birthday, January 11th. She was the only child of Carl Begich and Winifred Calista Welty.

Just a little more than a month after her birth her father enlisted in the military, rather than being sent home to be drafted. His promising career as a journalist was interrupted so that he could serve.

He never returned.

This, of course, profoundly changed the course of his daughter's life. Going by the name of Cathi, she would be raised in California (not New York) and take on a step father, Pascal H. Caldwell, when her mother remarried in 1946.

Cathi married at the tender age of 17 to Kyle Westover, Sr and became mother to five children: Jay, Debbie, Jeff, David and Kris.

She had tremendous talents as an artist and worked for many years in a creative professional capacity. She later worked as a receptionist for many years at a local pet hospital, a job she very much enjoyed.

Cathi's passion was always her family and she greatly enjoyed grandparenting as "Nana". She attended the births of many of her grandchildren.

She was also passionate about family history and temple work and pioneered the efforts of finding the roots of her Begich, Caldwell, Welty and Carson ancestral lines.  
Begich, Susanne Catherine (I3)
 
4 The Edwin R. Westover Family project is an attempt to document and gather all the descendants of Edwin Westover before his 200th birthday in 2024.

https://westoverfamilyhistory.org/gathering-edwins-family/ 
Westover, Edwin Ruthven (I200)
 
5 William Ruthvin Westover was born in Mendon, during a time when the Edwin Westover families lived in Grantsville. This was just before Edwin's call to serve in the Cotton Mission.

Edwin and his families moved to Southern Utah in 1862 and were there for seven years before the passing of William Findley Jr in 1869. William Findley's passing put the Mendon family of Ann F. Westover in distress.

She returned to Mendon, bringing her children with her, while pregnant with her 5th child. It changed the course of history for nearly everyone associated with Edwin.

William Ruthvin was cast into the role of working the farm alongside his aging grandfather and other men in the community who could help out from time to time (specifically William Rowe and Bishop Henry Hughes).

Of course, as he got older, William's contributions grew as he grew.  
Westover, William Ruthvin (I88)