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Ruth McOmber
1945-

KEY:      _5_                                                            _Arthur B. Clark____ --> 2.1
     _3__|                                                              | 1854-1917
 _1 |    |_6_                                                           |
|   |                                                                   |_Orange McOmber_____ --> 2.9 
|_2_|     _7_                                 ___Calvin D. McOmber, Sr._| 1844-1932
    |_4__|                                   | b.22Aug1885 Hyde Park UT | 
         |_8_                                | m.24Jun1909 Guadalupe Mx |_Marinda Griffeth___ --> 2.2
                   ___Calvin D. McOmber, Jr._| d.20Nov1969 Palo Alto CA   1857-1916
                  | b.11Apr1910 Groveland ID | 
                  | m.30Apr1937 SLC Utah     |                           _David F. Stout_____ --> 2.3
                  | d. 4Nov1980 Davis CA     |___Achsah (Axie) Stout____| 1855-1932
   <--back        |                            b.14Nov1889 Rockville UT |
                  |                            d.15Jan1971 Pocatello ID |_Rettie Cox ________ --> 2.4
 __John P. Pratt  |                                                       1856-1935
|                 |                                             
|                 |                                                      _Leopold J. Brodil__ --> 2.5
|__Ruth McOmber___|                           ___Frantisek A. Brodil____| 1806-1888
                  |                          | b.23Jan1868 Pelhrimov Cz |  
                  |                          | m.14Feb1904 Vienna Austr |_Johanna Svobodova__ --> 2.6
                  |___Frances Brodil_________| d.10Aug1919 Prague Czech   1833-1873
                    b.22Dec1904 Vienna Austr |   
                    d. 1Apr1998 Chester ID   |                           _Klement Velesy_____ --> 2.7
                                             |___Frantiska Vesela_______| 1836-1907
                                               b.12Jan1881 Stenflik Cz  |
                                               d.26Nov1931 Prague Czech |_Frantiska Minarova_ --> 2.8
                                                                          1838-1897

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

1. John was raised in Salt Lake City UT. 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. 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 in Salt Lake City and they were married in the Idaho Falls Temple by her father. She had two children in Tucson AZ, where John studied, and the last three in northern Utah. Ruth loves to serve. She was a 4-H leader for over 35 years, taught a home pre-school, and has always been active LDS, having served in many Church callings. She has written several wonderful family histories. She and John hosted about 20 foreign exchange students during 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. In his childhood, Calvin Jr worked on the family farm herding cows in Oakley ID. During high school the family of seven sons and a daughter moved to Pocatello ID. He was on the basketball team at the U.S. Championships in Chicago. He served an LDS mission in Prague where he met his future wife Frances. He got a BA in chemistry and MA in Scripture at BYU and taught at the Institute of Religion at ISU, being Associate Director for 22 years. He was in the LDS Stake Presidency and in the Idaho Falls Temple presidency, where he performed the marriage of Ruth and John.

4. Frances was born in Vienna to Czech parents. Her mother was converted to the LDS Church there but when WW I ended they returned to Prague where there was no LDS Church yet. Finally when missionaries came in 1921 Frances was the first member of the Church baptized in Czechoslovakia. She and her sister Jane helped translate the Book of Mormon into Czech. Later she received a letter from Calvin, whom she had known as a missionary, proposing marriage! She accepted! She had to make huge adjustments from Prague, a world cultural capital to a Pocatello dairy farm. They were a model couple because both made sacrifices. They had five children. She spent most of her last 12 years in the home of Ruth and John. She was loved by all.

5. Calvin Sr grew up on a farm doing many chores. His father Orange had two wives (LDS polygamy), Marinda being the second, getting little support from him so got a divorce and married Arthur and they moved to Mexico. There Calvin met and married Axie. He led the building of a new chapel there. In 1909, he and Axie went to SLC UT where their marriage was solemnized and then to Idaho for work where Calvin was born. They returned to Colonia Dublan expecting to stay there only to be driven out in 1912 during the revolution in Mexico. They moved to a dry farm in Oakley ID where he was LDS bishop. They moved to Pocatello in 1925 where they opened the McOmber Dairy, built a home, and he became an LDS patriarch. They served two senior missions and then moved to SLC UT.

6. Axie (Ashcah, which name she never used), was born in Rockville UT into a polygamist family where she had four mothers, three of whom were sisters. To avoid anti-polygamist laws they moved when she was 10 by wagon to Mexico to Colonia Diaz and then Guadalupe. Many of her siblings died of typhoid. In 1903 Arthur Clark bought ranch in Guadalupe and Axie met and married his son Calvin. Soon afterward several friends were killed by Mexican rebels, so they left to homestead in Oakley ID. Then they moved to Pocatello where she ran the McOmber Dairy, cooking for many hired hands and her own eight children. She spent her last years with her son Calvin's family.

7. Music was a passion of Frantisek (Czech for Francis). He was Czech, born in Bohemia (part of the Austrian Empire). He moved to Vienna to be a government clerk. There he was in a military orchestra and taught violin lessons. He also met and married Frantiska there who was also Czech. They had two daughters, Frances and Jane, born in Vienna. They nearly starved during WW I. After the war, the country of Czechoslovakia was formed and he had declare his citizenship. He chose Czech and thus lost his job, so they moved back to Prague. He passed away shortly after returning to Prague. His wife and children said was as very kind. He never joined the LDS Church but was supportive of his wife joining.

8. Frantiska (Frances) was the youngest of 10 children. At her mother's death, she left home at 16 for Vienna to live with her older sister. Here she read the Bible for the first time because such was forbidden in Catholic Bohemia. In 1913 she was baptized into the LDS Church. During WW I people traded jewelry for food; money was worthless. In Prague after the war her husband died and she struggled to survive. In 1921 visiting LDS missionaries baptized her daughters. She then wrote to the LDS Church President pleading for a mission to be opened and it was on 24 Jul 1929. She was the first Relief Society President and a great inspiration to all. She passed away just two years later at 50.

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