22 Feb 1917 – 26 Jun 1998
Wife of Junius Welborn Cardon Jr.
A brief autobiography of Rozane Foutz
Contributed By Cardon, Wayne M
This autobiography was included in a Cardon Family Book compiled by LaMarr & Leona Cardon for a Cardon Reunion in 1986
ROZANE FOUTZ
Born Feb 22, 1917
Blessed Aug 5, 1917, by Lars William Hendrickson
Baptized May 2, 1925, by Walter S. Young
Confirmed May 3, 1925, by Walter O. Ashcroft
Patriarchal Blessing: Benjamin A. Moffett
Grade School: Kirtland, New Mexico
High School: Kirtland, New Mexico
Color of eyes: Blue Color of hair: Blonde
Father: Elmer Foutz Born Aug 10, 1893, in Tuba City, Aria.
Mother: Ethel Mary Brimhall Born Oct 31, 1899, in Shumway, Arizona.
Brothers and Sisters:
Ardith, E. J., Helen, Bruce, Mildred, Hugh L., Eileen, Lloyd, Joan
I was born in Farmington, New Mexico. At that time, I might be considered very privileged because I was born in the hospital and had a doctor to bring me into this world. It was pretty special in those days to have a doctor and a hospital. Most babies were delivered at home by a mid-wife. Mother had a very hard time finding a name for me. Should it be Georgia, Georgianna, or Zanie? Thank goodness someone came up with an alternative, Rozane.
I have so many memories of growing up and going to school in Kirtland. My Grandmother Brimhall was so very special to us kids. She always had a little hard peppermint candy tucked away as a special treat for us. My Grandfather Brimhall was a stern man. As a child I was very careful how I behaved around him. As children we learned to love Grandmother and be quiet around Grandpa. Dad Foutz was a trucker or freighter. He hauled supplies all over the reservation to the trading posts. When I was about six years old, Dad moved us to White Cone, Arizona, where he started a store. I started my first year of school at Cornfields, Arizona. I stayed with Aunt Altha Youngblood. That year we had about eight kids in school. I remember Aunt Altha so well. What a wonderful cook she was, and I remember they milked goats. We were supposed to drink it- – yuk! We moved back to Fruitland, and I went to school there for a few years. I think it was in my fourth grade Dad moved us to Ganado, Arizona. These were real special years. We went to the Presbyterian Church there. It was a mission school. We almost learned to talk Navajo. We made a lot of special friends there. They were so good to us–very dedicated people.
When I was about thirteen Dad moved us to Holbrook, Arizona. I attended my first year of high school there. The next year we made our last move back to the good old Sunny San Juan Valley. We moved into a very small house at Fruitland, near Grandmother Brimhall’s. Ardith, Helen and I lived with her for about a year. Dad hauled freight for the old Progressive Mercantile Corp. to all it stores on the reservation. I graduated from good old Central High.
Wig and I met at school, but his last year he had to leave school to help his dad provide for his family. Those were tough times–during the awful depression. Wig and I loved to sing so we entertained everyone with his guitar. We loved to dance. That was in the days of the big-name bands. Everyone went to the dances. We also put on a lot of plays. Wig’s dad was so good at make-up and costumes. We had a lot of fun. In the old days you made your own entertainment.
Wig and I didn’t date until after I graduated from high school. We went together for about two years before we could get married. Finally, Wig got a good job with the Government. It was with the Irrigation Service at Fort Defiance, Arizona. So, we got married, bought a trailer and moved out on the reservation. The next ten years we moved a lot. Kent was born at Farmington. What a smart, beautiful baby! I think everyone thinks their kids are special. Wig loved kids. He always said he wanted at least a dozen. Wig loved to show Kent off & spent a lot of time and film taking pictures of him. Kent’s first few years at school were hectic. He went to school with the Navajo kids his first year at Tohatchee. The next year he spent with first one Grandmother and then the other. We finally moved back to Farmington his third year. He graduated from high school in Farmington, where he was active in the choir and band. He played the clarinet. He was good at drafting, so he went three years to an engineering school in Kansas City, He spent one year in the service and married Helen after he came home from the service. They have three children: Danny, Cindy, and Heidi and a. daughter-in-law, Heidi.
Robert was also born in Farmington, another boy. Wig was tickled pink. Bobbie was the tease in the family. He was full of pranks and was always in hot water with his mother. Lots of things the other kids did Bobbie got blamed for. In high school he was a star fullback for their football team, a star basketball player, home run hitter on the baseball team. He was also the fastest runner on the track team. He was full of fun and had lots of girlfriends. He and Eloise were high school sweethearts. They have four children: Robert Alton, Kerry Russell, Katrina and Suzette and Robbie’s wife Diana. Bobbie also had a habit of playfully twisting the kids’ ears when he loved them. He was our ear twister. Kent said when Lloyd Ray was born, “I hope he isn’t an ear twister.” Bobbie also performed in the school orchestra and band. He played the saxophone.
The night Lloyd Ray was born we had a real bad snowstorm in Farmington. Wig couldn’t get the pickup started. In those days we only had one car per family. He had to run about four blocks to borrow a car. We barely made it. Lloyd was such a good baby, we all loved him. After he started to talk, he would tell stories-make believe sort of thing. He and his Grandad Foutz were real buddies. He was sick a lot.’ The first three years of his life I carried him around on my hip to do my work. He had chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, and scarlet fever. “Butch” as we called him started school in Farmington. By this time Wig had decided to move back to Farmington. He built the home we are living in now. I had decided if I ever got a home I was not moving again. I had spent too many years roaming around so I will probably be right here till I die.
Lloyd was tiny for his age. His first pair of Levis was a one-year-old. When he went to first grade, I think he weighed 30#, but he made up for it in determination. He played football, basketball and baseball with the other kids and he was treated the same as they were–no consideration for size. In high school he won several trophies for his tennis playing. He was also on the all-star baseball team several years in a row. He loved to fish. He would always be the last to quit. He was his dad’s buddy when it came to fishing. He loved everything about it, from digging worms to cleaning them. After he graduated from high school he worked with his dad in the construction business. He and Joyce have three children: Donald Ray, Kirk Dwain, and Alicia. Don is married and he and Treisa have one son, Christopher. Alicia and Benson were married in December of 1985.
Jack Briant, born in Farmington, another boy. We wouldn’t change a thing now, but we sure did want a girl. Jack made up for everything. He was such a pretty baby. He had beautiful, curly hair and beautiful, blue eyes. I was tempted to keep him a baby for a long time. The other boys thought he was a play-thing. They carried him around, fed him everything they ate, even their bubble gum. Jack hated his first two years in school. His first year I spent the whole year taking him to school and getting him settled. Every time he’d hear the fire engine he’d say, “I hope that’s my schoolhouse.” Jack was a good athlete too. He played basketball and baseball. Everyone loved Jack. Wig and I would go to the ball games. The girls would ask, “Are you Jack’s Mom and Dad?” “We love Jack.” Jack went to college two years at Fort Lewis, Colo. and one year at Colorado State University, at Ft. Collins, Colorado. He and Sandy moved back to Farmington and went into business with his dad. He and Sandee have two children: Kristin and Nathan.
I have spent my extra time doing my small part in the church; have been a choir member, a Sunday School teacher, primary teacher, M.I.A. secretary, Mia. Maid teacher, Secretary for the Relief Society, served as first and second Counselor to three Relief Society Presidents. Wig was a great builder. Besides our home in Farmington, he built our cabin at Vallecito, Colo. It has been our pride and joy. We have spent many happy summers there. The kids and grandkids love it there. He taught the boys how to build, and they have all built their own homes. My Mother taught us girls how to cook. She’s the best and I have always enjoyed feeding people; my own family, their friends. We always had from one to six extra kids at our own table. It seems the last two and a half years without Wig have really been a struggle, so very lonesome without him. But time passes on, and you do what has to be done.
-Published on familysearch.org ID: KWZ2-324 under the Memories tab.
Memory Gardens of Farmington, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, Garden of Devotion, Section A, Lot 97
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