Dan
Dan Bartholomew
d. August 11, 2014
Dan Bartholomew was born January 3, 1933 in a home in northwest Springville, Utah that still stands today. Dan was the 12th of 13 children, born to Floyd and Pearl Larsen Bartholomew.
Dan attended all three grade schools that were in Springville at that time and went to both the old junior and senior high schools. He graduated in 1951. As a child, Dan was kept busy with farm work, household chores and accompanying his mother on her many varied activities as Relief Society President. During the summers in his high school years, Dan worked for the Union Pacific Railroad Concessions at the Utah Parks Company, spending one summer at Grand Canyon and two summers at Bryce Canyon. One year he also helped to close the old Cedar Breaks Lodge.
In the fall of 1951, during the Korean Conflict, Dan joined the Air Force with his friend, Robert Barton. He did so not just for the work, but in the hope of seeing a bit of the world. He was trained as a keypunch operator, a forerunner of a computer technician. During his four years of service, he was stationed at several places in Texas and California.
On June 6, 1953 Dan married his friend, Lois Jean Lowe, in the old First Ward church. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on December 8, 1984. Dan and Lois lived in Riverside, Rubidoux,[1] Highland and San Bernardino California for the next 18 years. After leaving the Air Force, Dan worked as Head of Machine Accounting for Sages Complete Markers, a group of chain stores in Southern California.
After more than six years of marriage, they started a family. They had four children together: Belinda Danette, Dana Ross, Sara Danean and Breck Danson. They didn't wish to raise their children in California, so after two unsuccessful attempts to get transferred to Utah, Dan decided to change vocations. At that point, Lois, who had had been a registered nurse for 10 years, and Dan decided that he would become one also so they could more easily choose where they wanted to live. At age 35 with four children, Dan went to San Bernardino Valley College. He earned his degree while working nights part-time and caring for the children during the evenings while Lois worked. He was one of only two to graduate with honors, and became a registered nurse.
After working a short time at San Bernardino General Hospital, where Lois also worked, the family finally managed to move back to Springville. Dan was the first male nurse to work at what was then Utah Valley Hospital, now Intermountain Health Care. He was quite a novelty and almost every other nurse on his shift managed to sneak a peek at him during his first few months there.
Lois also worked part-time nights at the same hospital and was soon made night supervisor where she was able to meet a Dr. Davies, who worked in the small emergency room part-time. It was Dr. Davies who convinced Dan and Lois that they would be ideal candidates to participate in a new program to improve healthcare in rural areas. An experimental family nurse practitioner program was started at the University of Utah and Dan was in the second group of graduates. Lois was in the third. The two of them became pioneers in rural healthcare. Dan was sent to Duchesne to start up a rural health clinic for what was then Intermountain Health Care and Lois followed as co-manager six months later.
It was an experimental program and Dan literally had to make it work by trial and error. For the first two and a half years they lived in one room of the clinic, sharing a hospital bed together and cooking on a camp stove. Later they lived in a small trailer next to the clinic where they spent many evenings crocheting together and hiking around Starvation Reservoir collecting aluminum cans. The latter was their way of getting away from their 24-hour on-call status. Whenever there was an emergency, however, the sheriff always managed to find them.
Together they made the venture work by doing literally everything themselves. In addition to patient care, they did their own x-rays, labs, billing, cleaning and inventory management. They left their four children, ages nine to 17, in Springville. Each child was left in charge of him or herself. Dan or Lois always managed to hold down the fort at the clinic, so that one of them could be with the children a day or two during the week. They were both home on weekends until their youngest graduated. Then they stayed in Duchesne full-time.
In 1983 Dan and Lois together were selected by the National Primary Care Association to Be the National Nurse Practitioners of the year and were given a trip to Kansas City Missouri to receive that Award.
Dan was on the Governor's Board for Rural Health, and he and Lois were also in the experimental programs to give nurse practitioners the ability to write prescriptions and later, to write prescriptions for narcotic drugs. In 1985, after three of their children were already married and the youngest was attending college at USU, IHC dissolved the contract with Duchesne County and Dan returned to Utah Valley where he helped set up the first Rehabilitation unit. Dan retired in 1990 at age 6o, although he did continue to work at nursing homes in American Fork and Springville and for the state at the Utah Medical Assistance Practice in Provo.
Dan has spent these last 23 years with Lois at his side living their lives to the fullesta�"traveling, rock-hounding, hiking, letter-boxing and doing family history research. His first priority has always been developing and nourishing close relationships with each and every one of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as their spouses. This has been his greatest success.
He has written several books for his family about his life titled "Reflections of an Old Man." Dan has also written several family history books and has distributed them to historical societies and interested individuals across the nation. One of his books is a collection of all the information on the "Springville Murders" that happened in the 1850s. He gave the book to the Springville Historical Society to copy and sell for their profit.
Dan is survived by his wife, his four children and their spouses, 13 grandchildren and soon-to-be five great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister, Miriam Mitchell, and brother, Owen Bartholomew. Although he is survived by those above, through his good works and all that he as selflessly recorded about his life, Dan too will survive for many years to come.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 15, 2014 at Wheeler Mortuary, 211 E. 200 S., Springville. There will be a visitation at the mortuary one hour prior to the services.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Springville Historical Society.
[1] Pronounced Rubi Doh
Dan attended all three grade schools that were in Springville at that time and went to both the old junior and senior high schools. He graduated in 1951. As a child, Dan was kept busy with farm work, household chores and accompanying his mother on her many varied activities as Relief Society President. During the summers in his high school years, Dan worked for the Union Pacific Railroad Concessions at the Utah Parks Company, spending one summer at Grand Canyon and two summers at Bryce Canyon. One year he also helped to close the old Cedar Breaks Lodge.
In the fall of 1951, during the Korean Conflict, Dan joined the Air Force with his friend, Robert Barton. He did so not just for the work, but in the hope of seeing a bit of the world. He was trained as a keypunch operator, a forerunner of a computer technician. During his four years of service, he was stationed at several places in Texas and California.
On June 6, 1953 Dan married his friend, Lois Jean Lowe, in the old First Ward church. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on December 8, 1984. Dan and Lois lived in Riverside, Rubidoux,[1] Highland and San Bernardino California for the next 18 years. After leaving the Air Force, Dan worked as Head of Machine Accounting for Sages Complete Markers, a group of chain stores in Southern California.
After more than six years of marriage, they started a family. They had four children together: Belinda Danette, Dana Ross, Sara Danean and Breck Danson. They didn't wish to raise their children in California, so after two unsuccessful attempts to get transferred to Utah, Dan decided to change vocations. At that point, Lois, who had had been a registered nurse for 10 years, and Dan decided that he would become one also so they could more easily choose where they wanted to live. At age 35 with four children, Dan went to San Bernardino Valley College. He earned his degree while working nights part-time and caring for the children during the evenings while Lois worked. He was one of only two to graduate with honors, and became a registered nurse.
After working a short time at San Bernardino General Hospital, where Lois also worked, the family finally managed to move back to Springville. Dan was the first male nurse to work at what was then Utah Valley Hospital, now Intermountain Health Care. He was quite a novelty and almost every other nurse on his shift managed to sneak a peek at him during his first few months there.
Lois also worked part-time nights at the same hospital and was soon made night supervisor where she was able to meet a Dr. Davies, who worked in the small emergency room part-time. It was Dr. Davies who convinced Dan and Lois that they would be ideal candidates to participate in a new program to improve healthcare in rural areas. An experimental family nurse practitioner program was started at the University of Utah and Dan was in the second group of graduates. Lois was in the third. The two of them became pioneers in rural healthcare. Dan was sent to Duchesne to start up a rural health clinic for what was then Intermountain Health Care and Lois followed as co-manager six months later.
It was an experimental program and Dan literally had to make it work by trial and error. For the first two and a half years they lived in one room of the clinic, sharing a hospital bed together and cooking on a camp stove. Later they lived in a small trailer next to the clinic where they spent many evenings crocheting together and hiking around Starvation Reservoir collecting aluminum cans. The latter was their way of getting away from their 24-hour on-call status. Whenever there was an emergency, however, the sheriff always managed to find them.
Together they made the venture work by doing literally everything themselves. In addition to patient care, they did their own x-rays, labs, billing, cleaning and inventory management. They left their four children, ages nine to 17, in Springville. Each child was left in charge of him or herself. Dan or Lois always managed to hold down the fort at the clinic, so that one of them could be with the children a day or two during the week. They were both home on weekends until their youngest graduated. Then they stayed in Duchesne full-time.
In 1983 Dan and Lois together were selected by the National Primary Care Association to Be the National Nurse Practitioners of the year and were given a trip to Kansas City Missouri to receive that Award.
Dan was on the Governor's Board for Rural Health, and he and Lois were also in the experimental programs to give nurse practitioners the ability to write prescriptions and later, to write prescriptions for narcotic drugs. In 1985, after three of their children were already married and the youngest was attending college at USU, IHC dissolved the contract with Duchesne County and Dan returned to Utah Valley where he helped set up the first Rehabilitation unit. Dan retired in 1990 at age 6o, although he did continue to work at nursing homes in American Fork and Springville and for the state at the Utah Medical Assistance Practice in Provo.
Dan has spent these last 23 years with Lois at his side living their lives to the fullesta�"traveling, rock-hounding, hiking, letter-boxing and doing family history research. His first priority has always been developing and nourishing close relationships with each and every one of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as their spouses. This has been his greatest success.
He has written several books for his family about his life titled "Reflections of an Old Man." Dan has also written several family history books and has distributed them to historical societies and interested individuals across the nation. One of his books is a collection of all the information on the "Springville Murders" that happened in the 1850s. He gave the book to the Springville Historical Society to copy and sell for their profit.
Dan is survived by his wife, his four children and their spouses, 13 grandchildren and soon-to-be five great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his sister, Miriam Mitchell, and brother, Owen Bartholomew. Although he is survived by those above, through his good works and all that he as selflessly recorded about his life, Dan too will survive for many years to come.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 15, 2014 at Wheeler Mortuary, 211 E. 200 S., Springville. There will be a visitation at the mortuary one hour prior to the services.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Springville Historical Society.
[1] Pronounced Rubi Doh
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