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• AFN: 1GZ0-1WQ

James married Georgie Velma Snyder 23 Oct 1950, RMH, Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia, United States; divorced Yes, date unknown. Georgie was born 16 Jun 1931, Dahmer, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States; died Aug 1988, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; was buried 1988, Orem, Utah, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
They were married in the Presbyterian Church, Harrisonburg, Virginia by the Rev. Albert G. Edwards.JHA7/272004.

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• AFN: 3FB4-7R

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Subject--INVESTIGATION OF MARRIAGE of Dice and Nina. I always knew I was Legit as Dad told me one time Mom was so prude she wouldn't let him near her for at least a month after they married, but to be certain I went to the Clerk's office in Franklin, Pendleton, West Virginia to check out their marriage license. I knew that Dad and Mom had met in college and taught school for a couple of years and just assumed they were skilled in arithmetic and geography. To my amazement I found the marriage license application record was written in Dad's own handwriting, and not that of the Clerk's. To my further amazement I discovered that my mother wasn't born in Job, Randolph, W.Va. but in Fort Seybert, Pendleton, W.Va. Also, she was born September 3, 1909 and this application was dated in March, 1929, before their marriage on March 30, 1929, YET the application listed her as 21 years of age!!!!! I confronted Mom about this and she said 'you had to be a resident of Pendleton County and have parental consent if under 21 and the Clerk knew Dad was lying'-apparently the reason for Dad filling out the form and not the Clerk!!!! It's quite a shock to find, after 72 years, that my parents aren't perfect either!!! JHA 8/2003.

DICE'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS BIRTH.
Born at Moyers, West Virginia early on a frosty morn, January 25th, 1905, the fourteenth child of Jacob Riley and Hannah Simmons Armstrong. My mother had just observed her 45th birthday five days earlier, on Jan. 20th.
Dr. Jones, our faithful and talented country doctor, rode his horse four miles from the little village of Doe Hill, Virginia through a blinding snow storm to be on hand for the occasion. It took all of his skill to save me for a long life eence of many hours, tempered and refined by occasion of joy and very deep sorrow. I was what they called at that time a 'Blue Baby' in a much weakened condition. As a matter of fact, I wasn't supposed to arrive to the Armstrong family. When the 13th child, my dear sister Mabel, was born three years earlier my father closed the Birth Record in the Family Bible by placing his and mother's birth and wedding records following sister Mabels. But, lo and behold, three years later he entered the record of my arrival following the records of their own.JHA2003.
Dad was still telling of his weaning at age 90. He was nearly six years old when grandma, at the age of 51, weaned him. Granny and some of the girls were sitting on the porch steps snitting apples for drying for the winter ahead.. Dad was md kept running up and down along the side of the house yelling' I ain't Ma's boy no more" over and over!!! I never felt sorry for him as I only got to spend 18 months at my favorite place--my mother's breast!!!JHA2003.

From the files of Janice L. (Armstrong) Nicholas---
DICE SAMUEL ARMSTRONG

1123114 DICE SAMUEL ARMSTRONG
b. 1/25/1905 -Moyers, Pendleton Co. W.Va.
d. 3/12/1996 - Mapleton, Utah
Bur: Orem City Cemetery, Orem, Utah
m. 3/30/1929 - Nina Coral Heltzel
b. 9/3/1909-Job, W.Va.
Parents: John William and Cora Anna Heltzel

Dice attended Shepherd's College and taught school. He later moved to Utah and lived in Orem. He was been a big help in my research into the Armstrong Family History. Dice was also doing some root digging. As a member of The Church ofs Christ of Latter-Day Saints he submitted much of his information the L.D.S. Genealogical Library, Salt Lake City. He gave a nice talk about his father, brothers and sisters at the 1985 Family Reunion. In a letter (September 1985), Dice told me his father, Jacob Riley, played the harmonica. At the 1986 Family Reunion, he was there with his wife and some of his children and grandchildren. He gave us more information on his family and gave me the book "The Saga of Siward - The Armstong Story". In addition to their 6 children Dice and Nina adopted a son, Gary, and raised another boy, Lynn Armstrong, son of James Harvey and Febbie Armstrong. While on vacation in 1989 we spent some time with Dice and Nina. They gave us a tour of Orem and Provo, Utah and took us to Salt Lake City for a tour of the Mormon Temple.
(April 1996) I received a letter from Nina telling me of Dice's death. His passing will leave a large void in the lives of all who knew and loved him. On the back of his funeral Memory Card was this poem written by his daughter-in-law:

From afar a voice has called him, Called him back to greener hills, Called our mountaineer a hunting,
Called him home to sweeter rills. From afar the voice still calls, Sweeter now than ere before, Calling gently, homeward, homeward, Our mountain daddy has crossed o'er.
Kay Bird Armstrong

OBITUARY:

DICE SAMUEL ARMSTRONG

Dice Samuel Armstrong, the fourteenth child of Jacob Riley and Hannah Catherine Simmons Armstrong was born on January 25, 1905, near Moyers, Pendleton, Co. West Virginia and passed away quielty at his home in Mapleton, Utah on March 12, 199


As a child he attended Lone Oak School near Moyers, West Virginia. He then attended St. John's Lutheran High School in Washington D.C., working his way through school as a taxi-cab driver.
After a stint as a mule skinner in the Texas oilfields, he returned home and attended Shepherd College where he met and married Nina Coral Heltzel at Riverton, West Virginia on March 30, 1929. They attended James Madison University and tau
chool for a brief period of time.
A natural entrepreneur, Dice was soon engaged in farming, livestock dealings, and the saw mill business. He gave employment and hope to many needy families during the depression. Always interested in community and civic matters, he servedresident of Pendleton County School Board.
In West Virginia he was an avid sportsman and the nemesis of many a fox, squirrel, wild turkey, raccoon and black bear.
He taught Sunday School at St. Paul' s Lutheran Church. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1953. His immediate family soon joined also and the family emigration to Utah began. Dice and Nina were sealed for eternn June 1, 1956, in the Salt Lake Temple. Dice served his church faithfully and filled many positions of responsibility before moving to 1620 S 800 East, Orem, Utah in 1965. He and his wife lived there until November 1995, when they moved to Mapleton to be near their daughter, Patty A. Jenson. In Utah he was active in the real estate business for many years, being the co-founder of both Colonial Real Estate and Provo Real Estate Companies.
He is survived by his wife Nina, two sons and four daughters: James H. (Kay) Armstrong, Elk Ridge, Utah; JoAnn A.(Wallace) Raynor presently serving an LDS Lifestyle Mission in Mainland China, Patty A.(Rex) Jenson, Mapleton, Utah; Sonja A. Cgham, Orem Utah; Martha Lee A. (Dennis Walker, LaBelle, Idaho; Gary E. (Lorraine) Armstrong, Nampa, Idaho. He is survived by his 100 year old sister, Louie Jane Kavanaugh, Franklin, West Virginia, 28 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. He was preceded in dearth by an infant son, John Dice Armstrong, who died on December 7, 1940 and 12 brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held Friday, March 15, 1996, at 11 a.m. in the Hillcrest First Ward Chapel, 1450 S. 800 East, Orem. Friends may call Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 495 South State St. in Orem and alsoy from 10 to 10:45 at the ward chapel. Interment will be in the Orem City Cemetery.

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11231141 James Heltzel Armstrong (Dr.) Price, Utah
b. 5/8/1931 Durbin, Pendleton Co., W.Va
m. #1 10/23/1950 Georgie Velma Snyder (Div)
Parents: H. P. and Cora Snyder.
#2 3/31/1970 Evelyn Kay Bird
b. 8/3/1942
Parents: Oliver F. & Eloise (Metcalf) Bird. 112311411 James Riley Armstrong
b. 5/31/1952 Harrisonburg Va.
m. Connie Goodman 1123114111 James Riley Armstrong, Jr.
b. 4/8/1981 1123-114112 John Dice Armstrong
b. 4/22/1986 112311412 Jane Armstrong
b. 10/23/1953
m. 2/15/1975 Craig Holdaway
b. 5/22/1951 1123114121 Nathan C. Holdaway
b. 10/2/1976 1123114122 Lincoln A. Holdaway
b. 4/8/1979 1123114123 Justin R. Holdaway
b. 10/4/1981 112311413 Harry Dice Armstrong
b. 1/7/1956 Provo, Utah
m. 3/30/1979 Jeanine Pulham 1123114131 Joshua Dice Armstrong
b. 1/7/1983 1123114132 Breanna Lee Armstrong
b. 6/5/1984

112311414 John Leland Armstrong
b. 4/30/1962
d. 8/8/1984

NOTE: COPIED FROM NEWSPAPER CLIPPING

John L. Armstrong, 22 of Orem, Utah, died in a Reno, Nevada, hospital of head injuries suffered in an early morning truck accident near Winnemucca, Nevada. He graduated from Orem High School in 1980. He was employed as a coal miner witu Mining Co. near Price, Utah and later became apprenticed as a steam fitter in Nevada. At the time of his death, he was employed in the construction of a power plant near Winnemucca. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.

CHILDREN BY #2 EVELYN K. (BIRD) ARMSTRONG 112311415 Nina Armstrong
b. 7/12/1971 112311416 Angelaèy2 CONT b. 7/11/1973 11231142 Jo Ann Armstrong
b. 6/28/1933 Moyers, Pendleton Co., W.Va.
m. 3/15/1956 Wallace Alan Raynor
b. 10/26/1928 11231-1421 Cinthia Raynor
b. 6/12/1957
m. 6/21/1979 Gregory C. Nohrden
b. 4/6/1955 1123114211 Cora Elizabeth Nohrden
b. 3/19/1981 1123114212 Sarah Elise Nohrden
b. 5/31/1989 112311422 Thales Raynor
b. 6/3/1958
m. 4/21/1979 Victoria Parker
b. 9/4/1957 1123114221 Caroline Victoria Raynor
b. 11/29/1981 1123114222 Matthew Collier Raynor
b. 8/231984 1123114223 Thales David Raynor
b. 2/25/1987 112311423 Nina Armstrong Raynor
b.6/5/1964 112311424 Sabrina Raynor
b. 6/15/1967 11231143 Patty Lou Armstrong
b.3/23/1937 Moyers, W.Va.
m. 9/28/1957 #1 Norman Koontz (Div)
12/3/1969 #2 Rex Jensen
b. 2/20/1938
CHILDREN BY #1 NORMAN KOONTZ 112311431 Mark Armstrong Koontz
b. 7/17/1958
m. 11/19/1981 Colette Wright
b. 3/26/1961 112311431-1 Joshua Armstrong Koontz
b. 5/22/1983 1123114312 Rachael Colette Koontz
b. 10/12/1985

112311432 Michael (Koontz) Jensen
b. 10/12/1960 After the age of 21, Michael ask to be adopted by Rex Jensen. In 1983 he was offically adopted and changed his name to Jensen. 112311433 Phillip Rex Jensen
b. 12/7/1970 112311434 James Kent Jensen
b. 2/2/1972 112311435 Michelle Ann Jensen
b. 4/23/1974

11231144 John Dice Armstrong
b. 8/21/1939 Moyers, Pendleton Co., WV
d. 12/9/1940 Home accident he drank Kerosene.
Bur: St. Paulèy2 CONT Moyers, Pendleton Co,. WV

11231145 Sonja Catherine Armstrong
b. 9/15/1941 Moyers, Pendleton Co, WV
m. 5/21/1965 Carl Cunningham (Div)
b. 8/22/1941 112311451 Eric Leigh Cunningham
b. 9/17/1966 112311452 Patrick Wayne Cunningham
b. 3/23/1968

11231146 Martha Lee Armstrong
b. 2/22/1944 Moyers, Pendleton Co., WV
m. 5/30/1963 Dennis Walker
b. 6/15/1942 11231146SC1 Samuel Armstrong Walker (adopted)
b. 3/7/1967 Denver, Col. 112311462 Joel Edward Walker
b. 11/17/1967 Provo, Utah 112311463 Matthew Riley Walker
b. 8/26/1969 Provo, Utah 112311464 David Lynn Walker
b. 1/28/1971 Provo, Utah 112311465 Jeron Paul Walker
b. 9/13/1977 Salmon, Idaho 11231146-6 Eryn Elizabeth Catherine Walker
b. 10/16/1977 Rexburg, Idaho 112311467 Laura Coral Ann Walker
b. 4/20/1981 Idaho Falls, Idaho

1-12-3-1-14SC1 Gary Edward Armstrong (Adopted)
b. 3/8/1950 Union Town, Pa.
m. 11/8/1976 Lorrine Tolman
b. 4/20/1954 1123114SC11 Travis Samuel Armstrong
b. 9/30/1977 Burley, Idaho 1123114SC1-2 Charity Marie Armstrong
b. 2/10/1979 Nampa Canyon, Idaho 1123114SC13 Camilla Sarah Armstrong
b. 5/24/1981 Nampa Canyon, Idaho 1123114SC14 Zachary Edward Armstrong
b. 8/23/1984 Nampa Canyon, *************************

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• AFN: 3FB4-8X

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Mom is buried along side Dad in the Orem City Cemetery. JHA