About Us Ed & Joyce Nevitt

The Nevitt family Nov. 1993

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Originally written 16 Feb 2000.

Welcome to the page of Edward O. Nevitt and Joyce Reber Nevitt, (Mema and Grampa).

We live in Queen Creek, Arizona. We live on a farm fifteen miles southeast of Queen Creek and grow cotton, cattle, wheat, palm trees and kids and grandkids. We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and are very active in the Church. Ed has been a Bishop's Counselor and Bishop, and High Counselor before we served a Mission to Frankfurt, Germany. I, Joyce, have served in all organizations of the Church and enjoyed teaching...Early Morning Seminary...most of all. We have seven children and 34 grandchildren, who are the joy of our lives.
We are blessed to be living near them on the farm and enjoying the nearness and company of the grandchildren.
We also, very much enjoy the Sunday nights when they all, or some, come and visit us and eat bean burros and ice cream with us. We have a great family and we are so blessed with them ALL!!! We are proud of all seven and their spouses and our 34 grandchildren. They are our life, and our loves!!


I love to garden and grow flowers. My favorite scripture is Alma 44:4.(God will support, keep and preserve us, so long as we are faithful to Him, to our Faith, and to our religion, and will never suffer us to be destroyed so long as we ARE!!) I love to teach Seminary.(Or I DID! It was so very fulfilling and satisfying to be doing something, building faith I hope, and teaching scriptures to my students, in the service of the Lord.) Both Ed and I love to eat Cold Stone Ice cream, (as you can tell when you see us.) I also enjoy doing Name Extraction on my computer, typing names from Marriage and Death records for the ordinances to be done for them in the Temple, so the dead won't be denied entrance into the Kingdom of the Father and Jesus Christ simply because they never had a chance to hear the Gospel or do these necessary ordinances during their lifetime here on earth. Ed has been and IS a great farmer. He grows cotton and we grow tomatoes in a hot house he built. (There isn't ANYTHING he can't do or build!) He's slowed down a bit because of age, arthritis and neuropathy (nerve problems) and is in pain when he walks (or LIMPS!) We are raising a garden right now of peas, broccoli, radishes, lettuce, carrots. But Ed continues to help and do what he can on the farm he loves so much. He can't give it ALL up quite yet...as long as he is at all able to get around!!He LOVES his farm and cattle. They come running to him when he calls them out in the pasture!! They know his voice and love him too!

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We have friends all over Arizona, the United States and the world!! We spent 18 months living in Germany, on an L.D.S. Church Mission there, and met and worked with and loved Servicemen and their wives and children, people from France, refugees from Africa and people from many countries. We loved the experience!!!, and all the people we met. HELLO TO ANY AND ALL WHO EVER READ THIS ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! wherever you are.

June 2006 Update:

 

Ed and Joyce are still living on the Queen Creek Farm.  We sold the bulk of the farm but kept the 20 acres we live on.  We have 36 grandchildren now and 4 great grandchildren, who are the joy of our lives.  Ed still works on the farm, driving tractor, road grader, irrigating our two pastures by our house, mowing our lawn, etc.  and generally doing whatever he can to keep busy.  Work is his life and happiness. He doesn’t get around as well as he would like, knee and ankle problems, but he does still climb up on the tractors and does what he can.  He’s not going to let old age slow him down much.  He’s bought farms in Arizona and other states and thinks that he could move to them and run them, or he would still like to anyway.  He’s an eternal optimist and is always, still, making plans for the future, what equipment to buy, what to do to improve the farms etc.  At 77 he’s not ready to retire.  Work is his happiness and joy.

 

I, Joyce, haven’t quite that same drive and desire.  I’m trying to accept my mortality and just keep busy doing what I can to keep my mind and body occupied and exercised.  I still type Extraction Temple names on my computer, write to my three Missionary grandchildren regularly,  try to keep up with all my children and grandchildren’s birthdays, graduations, special events and accomplishments, and acknowledge all of  them and keep our family informed daily on MyFamily.com.    I keep busy cleaning my house, using the word “cleaning” loosely, and tending the yard and flowers outside.  I love flowers and can’t get on my knees to plant them in the ground any more so I have a lot of raised pots I plant them in now, so I can stand and plant and water them. I have an eternal hatred for weeds and walk around my house several times, for exercise, with a hoe in my hand to get rid of any and every weed I see. (On our Mission to Germany I would pull weeds out of flower and rose gardens when I saw one!)   I just found out 3 months ago I have diabetes so I have to watch what and how much I eat…which is GOOD for both Ed and I.  It’s good to give up sugar and salt…much easier than I had feared!  Life is GOOD still!

 

We both very much enjoy the Satellite DirecTV service we just recently had installed, which gives Ed many sports stations to watch, plus RFD, a farm station, polka bands and dancing, Fox News and BYU programs, devotionals, conferences, etc.  that I particularly enjoy.  I used to love the cooking programs but my diabetes put a stop to my desire to do much (or ANY) cooking.  Sorry, Ed!  Sandwiches for you,  salads for me!

Life IS good…getting easier and better as time goes by!

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