Jeannine Howell Buckley was born, third of six children in rural Utah to Demont and Arlea Howell.
She graduated from Snow College and Utah State University, and married her sweetheart in the Manti Temple. Together, they have raised seven children and enjoy twenty-four grandchildren. She and her husband served a Church Education Mission at Southern Virginia University .
Always interested in the arts, she became involved in music and theatre at a young age and performed with her two older sisters for local programs and many theatre opportunities. As a member of the Utah Oratorio Society and later the Tabernacle Choir, she was blessed to perform in many countries. This experience led to a career teaching private voice which was interrupted by illness resulting in damage to her vocal cords and lungs, ending her singing career.
Devastated at this loss she was inspired and blessed to develop a new creative outlet as an artist and author. She feels her art and writing are divinely directed and has painted many pieces relevant to her family history in addition to those featured in this book. She was awarded the first–place prize in the St. George 2019 Poetry to Art Contest.
She presently resides with her husband in St. George Utah where she continues to write and paint.
