 1919 - 1991 (72 years) Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Ruby Geddes Eames |
| Birth |
19 Jul 1919 |
Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
4 Nov 1949 |
IFALL |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWZ4-MM1 |
| Death |
21 Sep 1991 |
Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
| Burial |
25 Sep 1991 |
Preston Cemetery, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I384 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
David Greaves Eames, b. 29 Sep 1879, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States d. 27 Jan 1961, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States (Age 81 years) |
| Mother |
Pearl Lorena Geddes, b. 22 Feb 1883, Plain City, Weber, Utah, United States d. 5 Aug 1967, Joseph, Sevier, Utah, United States (Age 84 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Jan 1905 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F391 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Floyd Richard Boothe, b. 5 Oct 1909, Honeyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States d. 5 Nov 1976, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States (Age 67 years) |
| Marriage License |
12 Jun 1961 |
Cache, Utah, United States |
| Marriage |
14 Jun 1961 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F399 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 19 Jul 1919 - Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 4 Nov 1949 - IFALL |
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 | Marriage License - 12 Jun 1961 - Cache, Utah, United States |
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 | Marriage - 14 Jun 1961 - Logan, Cache, Utah, United States |
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| Death - 21 Sep 1991 - Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
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 | Burial - 25 Sep 1991 - Preston Cemetery, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
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| Notes |
- She was born at her home in Preston, Idaho, July 19, 1919, the daughte r o f Pearl
Geddes Eames and David G. Eames. Her childhood was a happy one spent wi t h her
family on the farm in Preston, Idaho .
She was graduated from Preston High School In 1937, She attended the U.S . A.C. at Logan, Utah and received her B.S. degree in 1941 with a majo r i n child development and elementary education. She attended Merrill Pa lme r School in Detroit, Michigan the spring quarter of her senior year a t co llege. Her first teaching assignment was the second grade in Cedar C ity , Utah, for one year. She was head teacher in the child care center s in S alt Lake City, Seattle and San Francisco for five years. She was g uidanc e teacher at the University of Utah nursery school for one year .
She wanted to go overseas with the Red Cross during the war and receiv e d an assignment as overseas staff assistant to go to England in 1945. S h e was sent to Washington, D. C. to attend a school before leaving and t h e war ended, so the class she was scheduled to go with was cancelled .
She has been active In church work all her life. She graduated from Prim a ry and seminary and was play leader in the Primary organization when s h e attended high school. She has taught classes in Primary, Mutual or Su nd ay School nearly continuously since she finished college. She taught t h e teacher training class In the Preston Third War d
Sunday School . She was coordinator of the Junior Sunday School at Ame s , Iowa while attending school there in 1955. She served as a stake miss io nary in the San Francisco Stake for nearly two years in 1947 and 1948 . Sh e was called on a foreign mission to Finland in 1949. She and her co mpani on Merle Lloyd were the first two lady missionaries ever assigned t o Finl and. It was a very challenging and spiritual experience. She toure d fifte en different countries on her way home from her mission .
She was a graduate assistant at Iowa State College while working for h e r Master's degree She received her Master's degree in child developmen t i n August 1955 from the Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa. She is an As sist ant Professor in the department of Family Living and Child Developme nt an d Supervisor of the Child Development Laboratory at Utah State Univ ersit y at Logan, Utah, where she has taught for the past four years .
She has done temple work since she returned from her mission and she hel p s record sealings once a week at the Logan Temple. She has enjoyed th e co mpanionship of her parents, brothers and sisters and their children . Th e past few years she has traveled with her parents to visit the diff eren t temples and to visit with members of her family .
This summer she plans to attend the University of Honolulu and to do tem p le work in the Hawaiian Temple.
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