After 3 daughters Father was probably proud and grateful to at last have a son - Lafe.Though I often heard Father say if there's anything sweeter than little kids, it's more little kids. He said he couldn't wait until Lafe was big enough to go with him, but when that day came, Father was suffering too much from the cancer to take him. Lafe, Reta, Inez and Kelland stayed Grandpa and Gramdma Schofield and Aunt Lucille, when Mother went with Father to the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. (I stayed with Grandma Jackson, so I could go twice a day to tend chickens & look after home.)
When Father died Lafe couldn't understand why he didn't come home and after Mother explained he had gone up to Heaven to live with Heavenly Father, Lafe would ask Mother why they couldn't get in the car and go up in the clouds where Daddy was.And when Lafe was a small boy, Uncle Will took him and Kelland with his boys on the father's & sons outing. Some one returned shortly after for supplies and Lafe came home with them. I don't remember the excuse he gave Mother for coming home, but she said she saw him standing in the yard and knew it was because he was missing his own father.
As he grew up he like to tease his sister Inez. One day he did something that aggravated her very much, so she took running to catch him. But he out run her, Kelland was near by so she pulled his hair. Kelland didn't know what he had done to make Inez so angry.Lafe, Arlo (Brady), Lynn (Boice)* loved to ride their horses. Some times they would be gone most of the day, which was a great wory to Mother. They loved to go to Flat Top Mountain several miles east of Mansassa and try to round up or catch wild horses.
Always when he got near home, Lafe would give Pet, his horse free reins and she would go full speed for the corral. Mother held her breath for fear the horse would cut too close and the gate posts would scrape Lafe off, but they always made safely.
*Lynn Boice was a uncle to Lafe's wife, LaRee.
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