IN LOVING MEMORY- Verna Josephine Stoffers Eggleston

We got a call that Saul's Grandma was not doing very well and was not expected to live much longer. It was not a very fun week, calling every day to get an update, just waiting for the not-so-good news. We got the call on Tues., Oct. 20th that she had passed. We headed up to Ogden for the funeral which was on Fri., Oct. 24th. Saul got to speak, which he did a wonderful job. It was nice to see a lot of family and friends, just not under those circumstances. Saul is having a pretty hard time with it since he was so close to his Grandma. She was more of a mother to him.

After getting home from Utah early Sunday morning, we slept a few hours and then Saul and I packed up to go hunting for my white tail hunt. We went and picked up James, our friend and neighbor who had the same hunt, and headed out. When we got down there, we decided to try to hunt before setting up camp. We set James at a water hole and Saul and I went to another spot. Nothing. James saw a couple deer, but wasn't sure if they were mule deer or white tail. The next morning we all sat at the water hole- nothing. We hunted hard for the next few days, but still nothing. Saul built another blind around the water hole, hoping that we might have some luck there. It was such a good blind that several guys would stop to glass right next to him and didn't even see him (he was close enough to reach out and grab them). We named it the 'invisible' instead of the blind. We set there a couple more times, but still nothing. My sister text me and said that Meatloaf was gonna be playing at the state fair. With no luck hunting, I was ready to go to the concert. Saul was sick and not doing well. James was discouraged and ready to go also. We headed for home Wed. with nothing. Thurs. morning I found out that Meatloaf was sick and cancelled. Saul decided he was feeling better. Sean called and said that he wanted to go help us find one. So we called James and headed back down there. We all felt good about going back, thinking that everyone else had moved out and things would have quited down. James and I got set up in the 'invisible', and were just getting our hopes up that something would come in when we heard a huge ruckus. It was the forest service cutting down trees to take samples to see how dry the forest was. They blew any chance we had. Saul went and talked to them and told them we were still trying to hunt there. After another 45 min. they finally left, but we still went back home empty handed.