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| Name |
Asahel Davis Woodruff |
| Birth |
21 Oct 1904 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  |
| Christening |
1 Jan 1905 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
6 Mar 1924 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWC2-6XB |
| Death |
20 Jan 1994 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
24 Jan 1994 |
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Person ID |
I80591 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Elias Smith Woodruff, b. 15 Dec 1873, Randolph, Rich, Utah, United States d. 16 Nov 1941, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 67 years) |
| Mother |
Nellie Maria Davis, b. 5 Mar 1872, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 14 Oct 1960, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 88 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Jun 1901 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F27789 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Eva Mildred Stock, b. 12 May 1904, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States d. 4 Oct 1969, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 65 years) |
| Marriage |
14 Apr 1930 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Gaile Woodruff, b. 29 Aug 1939, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 2 Feb 2008, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 68 years) |
| | 2. Carolyn Woodruff, b. 18 Mar 1941, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States d. 2 Jul 2018, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 77 years) |
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| Family ID |
F27788 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Dorothy Jane "Dot" Nelson, b. 1 Dec 1909, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States d. 31 Jul 1996, Los Gatos, Santa Clara, California, United States (Age 86 years) |
| Marriage |
13 Mar 1972 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F27781 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Nov 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 21 Oct 1904 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Christening - 1 Jan 1905 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 6 Mar 1924 - SLAKE |
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| Marriage - 14 Apr 1930 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Marriage - 13 Mar 1972 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Death - 20 Jan 1994 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 24 Jan 1994 - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- Asahel Davis Woodruff was born on October 21, 1904 in a home on the sou t h bank of City Creek in Salt Lake City to Elias Smith and Nellie M. Dav i s Woodruff. He had an older sister, Nellie and younger sisters, Margar e t and Mildred. His little brother, Elias, died as a baby.
He was educated in the Fremont and Forest Elementary Schools, and Grani t e High School. He served a mission for the LDS Church to the Souther n S tates in 1924. He attended the University of Utah. Asahel married Ev a Mi ldred Stock in the Salt Lake Temple on April 14, 1930. They had tw o daugh ters Gaile and Carolyn.
Education was very important to him and he continued on to Denver Univer s ity, Brigham Young, and received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology i n 1 941 at the University of Chicago. He taught and directed seminaries a nd i nstitutes in Escalante, Fillmore, Price, and Ogden. He served profes sorsh ips at Cornell, Brigham Young, George Washington Universities and t he Uni versity of Utah. Subsequently, he became Dean of the Graduate Scho ol an d Dean of the Colleges of Education at Brigham Young and at the Uni versit y of Utah. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Illino is, Cal ifornia at Berkeley, Utah State and State University College at G eneseo , New York. Internationally, he assisted in the establishment o f a depart ment and faculty of education at Haile Sellassie I Universit y in Addis Ab aba, Ethiopia.
After his wife Eva died in 1969, Asahel married Dorothy N. Candland on M a rch 13, 1972 also in the Salt Lake Temple. He filled five missions, t w o of them with Dorothy for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sai nt s, both as a full-time missionary and on special assignments taking le ade rship in missionary programs, coordinating visitor centers, and estab lish ing name extraction programs. He served in both stake and mission pr eside ncies. For fifty-eight years, he served as a scouter and scout lead er.
He authored two important Sunday School manuals, contributed to other ch u rch publications, and professionally, authored two college textbooks al on g with numerous professional articles. He has been a member of some el eve n professional organizations and has received a variety of educationa l aw ards.
To his family, Asahel was always the wise and compassionate patriarch, e v er concerned about and willing to help solve even the smallest problem . M any came to him for personal, spiritual, and professional guidance. H is t eachings always reflected himself, a man of clear thought, a man o f patie nce and love. Never offending, always supporting and giving. Asah el love d people, their hearts and their ideas. While many will remembe r his inte llectual contributions, many more will remember his Christ-lik e concern f or others and his clear way of teaching gospel principles.
Asahel died of cancer at age 89 on Thursday, January 20, 1994, at the L D S Hospital. At the time of his death he had 28 grandchildren and eigh t g reat-grandchildren.
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