Ruth McOmber
1945-

	Husband: John P. Pratt
	Children: John C. Pratt Julie K. Pratt Mary K. Pratt Jared M. Pratt Joseph B. Pratt
	Father: Calvin D. McOmber, Jr. Mother: Frances Brodil Show Pedigree

Ruth was born in Pocatello, Idaho, being the youngest of five children. She graduated from Pocatello High School and from Idaho State University, with a degree in elementary education and a minor in music.

Ruth has always had a love for music, and has had vocal training as a soprano since high school, where she was a sololist in the Messiah. She later sang with the touring group with at Idaho State University, and is still often a soloist in Church programs. She graduated from the L.D.S. Institute of Religion at I.S.U. with honors, being president of the Lambda Delta Sigma sorority. She has always had a love for art and has done painting in a variety of media.

College Days

She completed an L.D.S. mission in the North British Mission and then taught fourth grade in Salt Lake City at the John C. Fremont Elementary School. There she met John Pratt when she was the guest soloist at his church service. They were married within a year in the L.D.S. Idaho Falls Temple, where her father performed the ceremony. Their first home was in Tucson, Arizona, where he began graduate studies in astronomy. She worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory as a secretary, across the street from her husband's office at Stewart Observatory in downtown Tucson. When their first son John was born, she quit work and became a full time homemaker. She loves to cook and sew and became proficient at all domestic responsibilities. She and John had their first two children in Tucson.

After John graduated, they moved with their children John and Julie to Layton, Utah, in 1976. There in Layton Mary was born to them in 1979. That winter they moved to Kaysville, Utah, where their last two children Jared and Joseph were born to them. John worked at Hill Air Force Base from 1976 to 1988, and when that contract was lost, the family moved to Orem, Utah.

Ruth loves to serve. She was a 4-H teacher for over twenty years, taught a home pre-school, and has always been an active member of the L.D.S. church, having served in many callings. She has also written several wonderful family histories. She and her husband John have had about twenty foreign exchange students over the years. In later years she worked in teaching adult literacy with her Aunt Rachel. They now have 27 grandchildren. All things considered, she and her husband have both always considered their family to be their greatest achievement and she loves spending all the time she can with her grandchildren.