Vernon Alvin Black
son of Alvin Black and Sarah Elizabeth Cox
born March 9, 1911 at Huntington, Emery, Utah
died November 11, 1996 at Kanab, Kane, Utah buried at Kanab Cemetery
Vernon is the second of six children, three sons and three daughters. He has an older brother, Claude, a younger brother Clell, and two younger sisters, Marelda, and Leora.. The youngest child, Wanda, died shortly after birth.
His father sold Studebaker cars, wagons, and buggies, and was also a miller, so this family moved from place to place. Vernon started school in Huntington, Utah but moved to Bluebell, Utah during the first grade. He started second grade in Roosevelt, Utah but moved to Wellington, Utah to start the fourth grade. The family moved to Glendale, Utah during his fifth grade. Here he completed the eighth grade in a two-room school. High school was in Orderville, Utah, where he either drove or walked four miles each way to attend school. He was a good student and excelled in basketball and sports. He was the captain of the basketball team. He graduated high school in 1931. He had active recruitments from three colleges in sports, but was unable to accept any of these.
In 1933 he married Anna Deal Robinson from Kanab, Utah. To this union were born five children. Phyllis Gayle, Velden A., Carolyn, Beverlee, and Kerry Lynn.
Vernon followed the building trade. He has built 10 or 11 homes which are still standing in Kanab, Utah. He was an accomplished carpenter and helped remodel and refurbish older homes in Kanab. He loved masonry work and has built many beautiful fireplaces. He also has built the stone pillars for the signs north of the town of Kanab. He loved to spend time in his woodwork and rock shop. He loved to make clocks from rocks and twisted wood pieces. He also played the violin and mandolin well. He was in an orchestra group, where he played the violin.
Vernon traveled most of the states in the United States, and has been to Canada and lived in Mexico. He loved to fish, hunt, camp, garden, and work in his shop. He sheared sheep during the summers for many years.
Vernon is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has filled many ward callings, four Stake missions, and two full-time missions, was an ordinance worker at the St. George Temple, and was a home teacher for all of these years. His first stake mission, when he was twenty years old, was with Franklin Heaton, without purse or scrip, to Fredonia, AZ. This was before he was married to Anna Deal Robinson.
He died on Nov. 11, 1996, of cancer, at his home in Kanab, Utah. He is buried at the Kanab Cemetery.
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