"Sorry I did not get to talk to you directly. However, I do remember you
from your Hiawatha visits. I am more than happy to reply to your request for
a tribute to two people that are the salt of the earth. If you have any
suggestions other than what I have written, please email me."
Max Robb

Here is my tribute to Clarence and Vida:

It has been said that if a man has only one true friend in a life time
he is indeed rich. I feel like a multi-millionaire because I have two
such great friends. They are special people They are choice
neighbors who are always willing to give of themselves. They are
tireless workers on all the lifetime tasks they have been given to
accomplish. They are ever ready to do their part, and a little extra.
They are people who are anxious to help a friend in need or a
stranger in trouble. Clarence and Vida are humble and God loving
folks who grace the world with their natural personal friendship,
and they complement their great life with the “chip off the block
family” they have raised to carry on their legacy.

Bob Wall comment: After Max wrote the above tribute, I asked Max to comment further on his coal mining relationship with Clarence and here is Max Robb's response to me:"

Bob, "you have assembled a history that needs to be told. Any thing more I might add is probably already in your tribute. I will only say this, Clarence, like the rest of us, was not perfect. He would be the first to tell you that, but he understood the golden rule: "Treat people as you would like them to treat you". He made friends easily, he supervised men like they were his friends and he most generally had nothing to be sorry for, because he always did what he thought was the right thing to do (Self Made man). Bob, good Luck to you and give Clarence and Vida my best regards. Max"

Clarence and Vida, my wife and I salute you and we both thank you for the
good influence you have had on all of us who are your many friends.

3. Howard and Sylvia Bingham's Tribute to Clarence & Vida

This is is a story about Vida and Clarence Wall and some of the good times we had together in Hiawatha, by Howard and Sylvia Bingham.

Our friendship started in Hiawatha, although my wife and I knew Clarence and his brother Lloyd in Myton, where he lived and Clarence in Ioka.

Then we moved to Hiawatha and Clarence and Vida came to Hiawatha soon afterwards. None of us were active in the church when we came to Hiawatha but we became good friends right away with Francis and Latrine Prince and the six of us became good friends and pinnacle players. After a few years we all three had moved into the neighborhood a few houses from each other and became good friends and church members. That is we became active in the church one family at a time.

Each week we would go to one of our places and spend a few hours playing pinnacle. The wives would stand the husbands and I remember that the husbands won most of the time.

One by one as I remember we started to become interested in the church. Princes had already been to the temple. My wife and I got ready and went to the temple and Clarence and Vida soon after got ready and also went to the temple. We all got together and went to Manti with them.

Then we organized a square dance club in Hiawatha, Utah which went on for about, I think, 10 years. This was the most fun for all of us. We not only danced in Hiawatha but we went to many other towns around Utah like Price, Roosevelt, Vernal, and Flaming Gorge Dam. I think Clarence and Vida were two of the most enthusiastic dancers we had. I don’t think they ever missed a chance to go.

I remember one day we were all down in the Price park square dancing and Vida was in one of the squares. The dance had just started when Vida’s stocking came unfastened and started to slide down. She never stopped dancing but tried to fasten her stocking, It was really funny but you know Vida, square dancing came first.

Clarence always raised a good garden and you know Clarence, he gave most of it away to neighbors.

Clarence and Vida took Clarence’s boat down to Lake Powell one time and my wife Sylvia and I and my brother Ray and his wife went along. We were there a couple of days and nights and had a very good time.

Clarence and Vida come up to Provo about once a month to the Doctor and they always came up to see us. They are the best friends we have ever had. We love them very much and wish the best of everything for them and sincerely wish we could do it all over again. It’s always fun to be with them.

I neglected to say that when Vida and Clarence went to the temple it happened this way. North Carbon Stake organized a temple project for inactive couples. I and my wife Sylvia and Francis and Latrine Prince got Clarence and Vida to go to the temple project where they were converted. When the time came Clarence and Vida with the Princes and me and my wife Sylvia took them to the Manti temple where they were sealed.

As an after thought I want to tell about the many steak fries. We went upon the beautiful Gentry mountains above Hiawatha. We would always have anywhere from 6-10 couples to go. I would cut big thick t-bone steaks with anything that anyone wanted to take. We done this at least once each summer and Clarence and Vida were always present.

**One more experience as told to Staci Madsen by Sylvia on July 8, 2002.

When we went back East with Clarence and Vida we saw so many things, but one day we stopped at Lincoln’s house. While we were inside there was a terrible cloudburst and it was so bad we got soaked all the way through as soon as we walked outside. Well the cold and all the water on our clothes made us both ( me and Vida) have to go to the bathroom so bad we thought we wouldn’t be able to wait. We quickly found a guard (a tour guide?) and asked him where we’d find the nearest restroom but apparently we didn’t listen too well because the next thing we knew Clarence was hollering at us to get out because we were in the Men’s restroom not the women’s. Oh well, it served it’s purpose.

Howard and Sylvia Bingham - July 09, 2002

4. Friend D Tribute to Clarence & Vida

Their tribute will go here when Bob Wall receives it. Hopefully it will be written using Microsoft Word word processor and E-mailed to me as an attachment to the E-mail message. Or send it to me on a floppy disk formatted under windows]

5. Friend E Tribute to Clarence & Vida

TRIBUTES TO CLARENCE & VIDA'S
FROM THEIR FRIENDS

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1. Lynn & Carol Nielsen Tribute to Clarence & Vida

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3. Howard and Sylvia Bingham's Tribute to Clarence & Vida

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Author Robert M. Wall & Clarence & Vida Wall family members.
Copyright © 2001 [Clarence & Vida Wall Family]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 08/13/02.

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4. Friend D Tribute to Clarence & Vida

Author Robert M. Wall & Clarence & Vida Wall family members. Copyright © 2001 [Clarence & Vida Wall Family]. All rights reserved. Revised: 08/13/02.

Author Robert M. Wall & Clarence & Vida Wall family members.
Copyright © 2001 [Clarence & Vida Wall Family]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 08/13/02.