Spencer Woolley Kimball

1895 - 1985  (90 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 18 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Spencer Woolley Kimball
  Birth	28 Mar 1895	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  Initiatory (LDS)	16 Oct 1914	SLAKE
  FamilySearch ID	KWCL-DRC
  Death	5 Nov 1985	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Burial	9 Nov 1985	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Headstones	Submit Headstone Photo
  Person ID	I89397	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Andrew Kimball,   b. 6 Sep 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 31 Aug 1924, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Olive Woolley,   b. 1 Jun 1860, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 18 Oct 1906, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	2 Feb 1882	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F19133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Camilla Eyring,   b. 7 Dec 1894, Colonia Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, México d. 20 Sep 1987, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	16 Nov 1917	Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States
  Children	+ 1. Spencer LeVan Kimball,   b. 26 Aug 1918, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States d. 26 Oct 2003, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 85 years) + 2. Olive Beth "Bobby" Kimball,   b. 31 Jul 1922, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States d. 14 Sep 2018, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 96 years)   3. Andrew Eyring Kimball,   b. 5 Mar 1927, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States d. 12 Jan 2020, Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 92 years)   4. Edward Lawrence Kimball,   b. 23 Sep 1930, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States d. 21 Nov 2016, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 86 years)   5. Olive Beth Kimball
  Family ID	F29853	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 28 Mar 1895 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 16 Oct 1914 - SLAKE Marriage - 16 Nov 1917 - Pima, Graham, Arizona, United States Death - 5 Nov 1985 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Burial - 9 Nov 1985 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  LDS Prophet Spencer W. Kimball - 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  
  

• Notes

  12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Spencer Woolley Kimball (March 28, 1895 – November 5, 1985) was an Ameri c an business, civic, and religious leader, and was the twelfth presiden t o f The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The g rand son of early Latter-day Saint apostle Heber C. Kimball, Kimball wa s bor n in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He spent most of his early lif e in T hatcher, Arizona, where his father, Andrew Kimball, farmed and ser ved a s the area's stake president. He served an LDS mission from 1914 t o 1916, [where?] then worked for various banks in Arizona's Gila Valley a s a cler k and bank teller. Kimball later co-founded a business, sellin g bonds an d insurance that, after weathering the Great Depression, becam e highly su ccessful. Kimball served as a stake president in his hometow n from 1938 u ntil 1943, when he was called to serve as a member of the Q uorum of the T welve Apostles. Like most other LDS Church apostles, Kimball traveled extensively to ful f ill a wide variety of administrative and ecclesiastical duties. Earl y i n his time as an apostle, Kimball was directed by church president Ge org e Albert Smith to spend extra time in religious and humanitarian wor k wit h Native Americans, which Kimball did throughout his life. He initi ated t he Indian Placement Program, which helped many Native American stu dents g ain education in the 1960s and 1970s while they stayed with LDS f oster fa milies. In late 1973, following the sudden death of church president Harold B. L e e, Kimball became the twelfth president of the LDS Church, a positio n h e held until his death in 1985. Kimball's presidency was noted for th e 19 78 announcement ending the restriction on church members of black Af rica n descent being ordained to the priesthood or receiving temple ordin ances . Kimball's presidency saw large growth in the LDS Church, both i n term s of membership and the number of temples. Kimball was the first c hurch p resident to state publicly that the church expects all able-bodie d male m embers to serve missions in young adulthood, resulting in an inc rease i n missionary service.