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John P. Pratt

KEY:      _5_                                                                    _Nephi Pratt_____ 
     _3__|                                          __W Parker Pratt____________| 1846-1910
    |_9  |_6_                                      | b. 7Jan1876 Fillmore UT    |
 _1_|                                              | m.13Sep1899 SLC UT!        |_Hannah Phillips_ 
|   |     _7_         __LeGrand B (Lee) Pratt______| d.11Nov1946 SLC UT!         1846-1908
|_2 |_4__|           | b.11Aug1910 SLC UT!         |
         |_8_        | m. 8Apr1953 Las Vegas NV!   |                             _Julius Billeter_ 
                     | d.30May1984 SLC UT!         |_Catherine (Katie) Billeter_| 1842-1922
   <--back           |                               b. 4Jan1882 Zurich Switz   |
                     |__J Frank Medearis___       d.21May1974 SLC UT         |_Barbara Zweifel_ 
 __John P. Pratt_____| b.17May1911 Seymour TX                                     1843-1930
|                    | m.14Jan1941 Las Vegas NV!                                          
|                    | d. 9Mar2001 Cachuma Lake CA                               _Fred F Worsley__ 
|__Ruth McOmber___   |                              __F H (Fred) Worsley________| 1858-1929
                     |                             | b.29Jun1883 Chicago IL     |
                     |                             | m.19Oct1903 SLC UT!        |_Hannah Silvius__ 
                     |_Kathryn (or Kay) Worsley*___| d.11Dec1956 SLC UT!          1861-1901
                       b.21Oct1906 Denver CO!      |
                       d.22Feb2005 Park City UT    |                             _Joseph S Price__ 
                                                   |_Sarah Olivia (Eva) Price___| 1853-1931
                                                     b.23Nov1876? St George UT  |
                                                     d. 8Mar1955 SLC UT         |_Ann Eliza Alger_ 
                                                                                 1856-1945

Life Sketches
(Person numbers refer to pedigree chart position; see KEY in upper left.)

1. John was raised in Salt Lake City UT in a family of 4: Lee, Kay, 2-years-older brother James F. Pratt, and himself. As a youth he loved math and dinosaurs. He had pet reptiles and ant lions. He received physics & math BA degrees at U of Utah, was an LDS missionary in Brazil, and then met and married Ruth. They moved to Tucson where he got a PhD in astronomy at UA. Then they moved to Kaysville UT where he worked 12 years in missile computer simulation at Hill AFB. Then they moved to Utah Valley where he did computer programming, hosted a table tennis club, and was often a scout leader. He has written over 200 articles, 100 of them on sacred calendars. He strongly believes in the gospel of Jesus in the Bible with all of the additional knowledge restored by the Prophet Joseph Smith. He and Ruth have 5 children (John, Julie, Mary, Jared and Joseph) and 28 grandchildren.

2. Ruth was born in Pocatello ID, has a beautiful soprano voice, and served in the North British LDS mission. She graduated from Idaho State in elementary education and music. She met John while teaching fourth grade and they were married in the Idaho Falls Temple by her father. She had two children while John studied in Tucson, and the last three in northern Utah. Ruth loves to serve. She was a 4-H teacher for over thirty-five years, taught a home pre-school, and has always been an active member of the LDS church, having served in many callings. She has also written several wonderful family histories. She and John had about twenty foreign exchange students over the child-raising years. In later years she worked in teaching adult literacy with her Aunt Rachel McOmber. Currently she loves spending all the time she can with her grandchildren.

3. Lee was the 6th of 15 children. He great up in SLC UT. He was on the Granite high swim team and went to state in diving and then worked as a life guard at the Saltair resort. He then moved to Washington DC, married Virginia Brengleman, and they moved to Huntington Beach CA where he worked at Western Electric. He served in the Navy in WW II. She passed away childless in 1947. He then moved back to SLC and married Kathryn and worked for Mt Bell, retiring with a 40-year wristwatch. Lee had a very quiet personality, was loved by all, and had a great sense of humor. He was physically very strong. He and Kay lived thereafter in Salt Lake City all of the rest of his life, raising Jim and John.

4. Kathryn grew up in SLC attending LDS University (high school) followed by U of Utah and UCLA. She was a born poet, with poetry publishing all he life and writing several books. She worked at KFI radio station as hostess to the nationwide late night radio show interviewing movie stars. She had several other jobs in LA, met and married Frank and had three poetry books published. After WW II she moved back to SLC, married Lee and worked in poetry the rest of her life, promoting it in high schools as president of the Utah State Poetry Society. She lived in 100 years.

5. Parker spent nearly his entire life in Salt Lake City except for an LDS mission to the southern states. He was in the real estate business most of his adult life and was connected with for Zions Security Corp. He and Katie had 11 sons and 4 daughters, Lee being the sixth. He was active in the LDS Church, having been in a bishopric and high priests teacher at the time of his death. At his passing at age 70 they had 17 grandchildren.

6. Katie was the 10th child in an LDS family in Switzerland. At 2½ the family came to SLC where Katie attended the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple in 1893. She sang in Tabernacle choir until she married Parker and had 15 children! She baked bread every day and they ate in shifts. They had good garden and raised chickens. They lived in a small house at 3313 S 11th East, SLC, UT for her last 56 years. She was active all her life in the LDS Church.

7. Fred was born in Chicago in 1883 and worked for a railroad in Texas at 14. He moved to Salt Lake City and at age 20 married Eva, the daughter of his landlords where he boarded. He worked for the railroad for the rest of his life. They lived downtown and he walked to work. He turned down promotions so he come home for lunch with the family and for making toys and furniture in the evenings. He also turned down job offers to make toys. He also instilled a love for books in his posterity.

8. Eva was born to an LDS family in St George UT and lived there until age 20, being the oldest of 8 children and having farm chores as a youth. She "practically raised" her sister 14 years younger. Then her parents bought a boarding house in Salt Lake City where she met and married Fred. She bore him nine children of which only 5 lived past infancy. She was great at entertaining at parties and was a member of bridge club. She decorated the house for every holiday.

9. Frank was born in Seymour TX and grew up in oil country. Frank worked as a machinist in Los Angeles at his Uncle Paul's Medearis Oil Supply. Frank also made jewelry for Ed Sanford who married Kathryn's sister Jo Ann. He and Kay met in Los Angeles. They married and had two sons, Jimmy and Johnny. He joined in the army for WW II and was injured while teaching explosives, which led to their divorce when the boys were very young.

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