The President for the 2007 reunion was Jennifer Cardon. The reunion was held August 11, 2007 in Orem Utah. Thanks for a job well done. The committee members included Ken Cardon, Larry Porter, Boyd Cardon, Carl Goodman, Becky Cardon Smith, Neil Cardon, LaDawn Porter, Lavor Cardon, Ray Blake, Bob Cardon, Brookie Cardon Peterson, Kaylene Harding, Carol Dyer, Devin Dyer, Bill Both, and Laverne Tuller.
Cardon Family Reunion
August 11, 2007
665 S. 200 W. Orem, Utah
Lux Lucet In Tenebris
“The light shining in darkness”
“The Waldensian Emblem dated from the year 1640
The lighted candle denotes “The Word of God.”
The blue field or night blue sky represents darkness
The seven stars represent the “Seven Churches in the Book of Revelation.”
The Latin motto Lux Lucet In Tenebris signifies
“A Light is Shining in the Darkness of Night” or
“The Burning Word of God is Bringing Light and Splendor Among Men.”
“The two branches, one of oak normally on the right and one of green laurel on the
left, tied together at the bottom, indicates, “Hope and Strength and Power.” The
Green Laurel stands for Hope and Glory.” Thus we have “Hope, Power, and the
Glory of God.”
(According to https://waldensianpresbyterianchurch.com/our-history)
Tributes – Ken Cardon, Ron Malan, Brookie Cardon Peterson, Edna Cardon Taylor
Presenters included:
Michael Homer – “Waldensian Contributions in Utah”
Ron Malan – “Piedmont Families Organization (PFO) Report”
Boyd Cardon – “The Cardons in the Mexican Colonies”
Carl Goodman – “Philippe Cardon and Marie Tourn and Known Descendants”
Cardon Family Organization Honorees 2007
Ken Cardon
Ken Cardon currently serves as President of the Cardon Family Organization, and a member of the Cardon Family Reunion Committee, where he has served for a number of years. Under his dedicated leadership, he laid the foundations to unify our family by calling upon the masterful skills of Carl Goodman to launch and define the Cardon Family Website (www.thecardonfamilies.org – now www.cardonfamilies.org) Ken called a Travel Leader· (Becky Cardon Smith) to plan family trips, he searched and obtained various publications and has made them available at many Cardon Family Reunions. His vision is to unite our family across generations as we honor and celebrate our rich family heritage of faith. His desire is that the story of the Cardon’s legacy of faith will inspire future generations so this light will never die.
Ron Malan
Ron Malan is an anchor in the Piedmont Families Organization, Inc. and directs its research. He has built a bridge to our ability to identify more of our ancestors beyond the LDS Church’s Piedmont Project done in the 1960’s by directing Gioanni Cena to research the notary records in Italy where many of our Waldensian Ancestors lived. His efforts have brought sacred ordinances to more than 2,000 of the Malan ancestors. He has helped the Cardons provide these ordinances for more than 1,100 ancestors, the Beus’s to do more than 400 ordinances for their ancestors, and other researchers to obtain names and have their ordinances completed. Not only has his research been thorough and his willingness to help others been generous, his financial commitment to the PFO is significant. We pay tribute and gratitude to Ron for his devotion to the PFO, and to the Cardon Family
Brookie Cardon Peterson
Brookie Cardon Peterson has been a pillar of the Philippe and Marthe Cardon family organization. In its formative years she was a leader in defining the organization’s mission and the role or each of its officers and of its members. In subsequent years she has led both, by precept and example in the advancement of this mission. In her view, a family organization composed largely of fourth and fifth-generation descendants of a common ancestor should place a large emphasis on historical and genealogical research. By this means these descendants can better appreciate their common heritage, as well as contribute to temple ordinance work for their forbears. Somehow Brookie has managed to produce a steady flow of such research and writing, in spite of a very busy lifetime of service to her more immediate family and to many others.
While contributing regularly to Cardon reunions as program chairman, skit writer, family travel organizer, etc., she has conducted significant genealogical research and works of family history. For the benefit of both her immediate family and her extended family, she has provided an account of her own life, an account of her mother (Winnafred Bellamy Cardon), an account of her grandmother (Ellen Sanders Cardon), an account of Marthe Tourn Cardon, an account of Suzette Stale Cardon (done in collaboration with Grover Cardon), and an account of Anne Cardon Rivoir Gaudin (“the sister who stayed behind”) and her two daughters. All of these accounts portray character traits and feelings – not just facts and dates. The latter four are available on the Cardon Families website, which now comprises an impressive amount of material directed to the mission of the Philippe and Marthe Cardon family organization.
Edna Cardon Taylor
Edna Cardon Taylor was born April 16, 19 15 in Logan, Utah. She was the 6th daughter and the 7th out of 8 children born to Louis Samuel Cardon and Rebecca Ann Ballard. She graduated from Logan High in 1932 then in 1936 graduated from Utah State Agricultural College (USU) with a degree in Business. She met Thomas Alva Taylor in 1936 and they married on April l, I938. They were sealed in the Logan Tempie on December 21, I938. Edna “TED” owned and ran the Logan Credit Bureau from 1951 – 1955. In 1955 she returned to USU for her teaching certificate and taught at Adams Elementary and Hillcrest Elementary schools. She was appointed head teacher at Hillcrest and worked in that job until she went back to Adams Elementary where she retired in 1977. Edna and Tom traveled the US to gather names and histories for their books of genealogies and family histories They wrote “Taylor/Owins. Their Trails and Ties”, “The Cardon Ballard Tree,” “The Ballard McNeil Connection”. She also compiled and wrote with Genevieve Porter Johnson the book “Cardons!”. She had her grandchildren assist in doing hundreds of
baptisms and conformations in the Logan Temple Her family regrets she is not in proper health to attend reunions and wants to let everyone know how much she loved this family and the work we all are doing to further the work of our kindred dead and her testimony of the truth of this church and this work.
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