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Darlene Beulah Beckman Broughton was born at Ogden, Utah on April 23, 1927 to Elmer Ernest Beckman and Omah Atwood Beckman. After her mother died when Darlene was two, she was raised by extended family at Ogden, Park City and Salt Lake City Utah, and Eli, Nevada. As a girl, Darlene alternated summers between her grandmothers. One summer would be spent with grandmother Alice Dolan in the small mining town of Cherry Creek, Nevada where she learned her love for gardening. Alternate summers were in a Hollywood, California mansion where her grandmother Christina Beckman cooked and kept house, wh...