 1918 - 2003 (85 years) Has more than 100 ancestors and 6 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Spencer LeVan Kimball |
| Birth |
26 Aug 1918 |
Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
19 Jun 1936 |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWZ4-N75 |
| Death |
26 Oct 2003 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
30 Oct 2003 |
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Person ID |
I89412 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Spencer Woolley Kimball, b. 28 Mar 1895, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 5 Nov 1985, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 90 years) |
| Mother |
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 |
| Family ID |
F29853 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Kathryn Ann Murphy, b. 25 Mar 1917, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 3 Jul 1990, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Jun 1939 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F29856 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Grace Virginia Barrus, b. 6 Sep 1917, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States d. 9 Oct 2003, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 86 years) |
| Marriage |
4 Jun 1994 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F14291 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 26 Aug 1918 - Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States |
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 | Marriage - 12 Jun 1939 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Marriage - 4 Jun 1994 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Death - 26 Oct 2003 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 30 Oct 2003 - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- Obituary: Eastern Arizonan Courier (Safford, AZ) - Monday, November 10 , 2 003
Deceased Name: Spencer LeVan Kimball
Spencer LeVan Kimball, legal scholar, insurance lawyer, law professor, h u sband and father, was born in Thatcher on Aug. 26, 1918. He died on Oc t . 26, 2003.
He was the son of Spencer Wooley and Camilla (Eyring). On June 12, 193 9 , he married Kathryn Ann Murphy. They had six children: Barbara Jean (T ho mas L. Sherman), Judith Ann (William Stillion), Kathleen Louise (Ken S iro tnik), Spencer David (Haila), Kent Douglas (Mary), Timothy Jay (Karen ); 1 6 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. After 51 years of marr iage , Kathryn died in 1990.
Kimball married Virginia Barrus Johnson on June 4, 1994, and added two m o re children to his family: Linda (Keith Morgan), Rick Davis (Debbie); s ev en more grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He received a bach elo r’s of science degree from the University of Arizona. Spencer serve d in W orld War II as a lieutenant aboard the U.S.S. Franklin. Followin g the wa r he spent two years at Lincoln College in Oxford, England, a s a Rhodes S cholar, where he earned a BCL. He later received an SJD fro m the Universi ty of Utah Law School. At 35 years old he was the younges t dean of the Un iversity of Utah Law School. Kimball served as a law pro fessor and direct or of legal research at the University of Michigan. Fro m there he went t o the University of Wisconsin as dean of the Law School . Kimball becam e a law professor at the University of Chicago as well a s the executive d irector of the American Bar Association Foundation in C hicago.
He retired to Salt Lake to live by the mountains and next to his siblin g s after he lost his wife, Kathryn.
Kimball made many notable contributions to the field of law during his l i fetime and was recognized both nationally and internationally for hi s w o r k. He was director of the Wisconsin Statutes Revision Project an d his w ork remains a model for insurance codes to this day. Kimball wa s one of t he co-founders of AIDA, an international insurance law associa tion. He wa s also the author of many works on insurance law and regulati on.
Surviving are brothers and sister, Olive Beth Mack, Andrew and Phyllis K i mball and Edward and Bee Kimball.
In lieu of flowers, charitable contributions to the Kathryn Murphy-Spenc e r L. Kimball Scholarship Fund, Eastern Arizona College, P.O. Box 769, T ha tcher, AZ 85552, are recommended.
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