[Deseret News, January 14, 2020]
Andrew (Andy) died on January 12, 2020 from a stroke. He was born March 5, 1927 in Safford, Arizona, to Spencer Woolley and Camilla Eyring Kimball. After a wonderful youth in Arizona, the family moved to Salt Lake City in 1943. He loved sports and played football at East High and then basketball at BYU. At BYU, he met his future wife, Phyllis Jones, from New York City, who patiently waited for their Salt lake Temple marriage while he served in the U.S Navy during World War II and then an LDS mission in New England. His Navy service included a year on an island in the Pacific (actually, Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay… a favorite joke). His mission service was in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont and included many months tracting without purse or scrip. He graduated from the U of U and earned an MBA at the University of Michigan. He worked for Ford Motor Company in Detroit, then General Electric for 32 years, doing marketing research and international strategic planning. After retirement from GE, he worked three years as a senior vice president with American Express in New York. His career involved extensive traveling around the world (100 abroad to 54 countries). The Kimballs moved frequently; Michigan, New York, Kentucky, New Jersey, Connecticut, and finally to Utah in 1993. Andrew was active in the LDS Church, serving in many callings (Bishopric, High Council, Sunday School, scouting, athletics, ect). He and Phyllis served two missions, one as Director of the Oakland Temple Visitors Center and one in Palmyra, New York area Visitors Center.
Andy loved playing the piano, doing crossword puzzles, going for rides with Phyllis, watching sports, especially football, and going on family trips to many parts of the world.
Andrew and Phyllis had a wonderful marriage, just over 71 years from 1948 to 2020. They were thrilled to have a great family of seven children, 27 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren. Their surviving children are Andrew (Kathryn), Patricia (Ken Goodwin, deceased), Susan (Terry Johnson), Virginia, Roger (Nancy), and Spencer (Kelly). Their child, Carol Jean, died a few months after birth.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, January 15 at noon at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple. Friends and family are invited to a viewing at the same location between 7 and 8:30 p.m. Tuesday evening or 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday before the services.
Phyllis J. Kimball
1926 ~ 2024
[Deseret News, December 2024]
Mildred Phyllis Jones Kimball died December 25, 2024, at the age of 98 in Draper, UT of complications of old age. She was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 3, 1926, to Thatcher C. Jones and Glenette Clark Jones. She grew up in New York City (Queens), graduating from Bayside High School. Phyllis then attended BYU where she met her future husband, Andrew Kimball. She fell in love with him but had to wait nearly four years before their wedding in the Salt Lake Temple in December,1948 as he was in the US Navy and then on an LDS Mission.
Phyllis received a teaching degree from BYU in 1948 and taught elementary school for 20 days. She then became a busy mother of seven children.
Her life involved many moves; starting in SLC, then Ann Arbor, MI, Schenectady, NY, Eastchester, NY, Owensboro, KY, Summit, NJ, Fairfield, CT and finally back to SLC.
Phyllis served faithfully in many LDS Church callings including Ward and Stake Relief Society President, Ward and Stake Young Women's President, teacher and librarian. She and her husband served two LDS missions, at the Oakland Temple Visitor's Center and Palmyra/ Fayette New York Visitor's Centers where she loved giving tours. She was always faithful in her callings and had an unwavering faith from childhood to death. She loved Temples and attended weekly for many years.
Phyllis loved counted cross stitching and made more than 100 pictures over the years, giving framed pictures to all her grandchildren and children as well as adorning her own beautiful home. Each one required hundreds of hours of work and reflected the great love she had for her family. She also did needlepoint, knitting, crocheting, reading books and daily scripture reading and loved TV news. She travelled frequently to many parts of the world.
Her family was her most important legacy. She loved them so much. Her children are Andrew, Jr. (Kathryn) of New York City, Patricia (Ken-deceased) Goodwin of Florida, Susan (Terry) Johnson of Utah, Carol Jean (deceased), Virginia Lamoreaux (deceased), Roger (Nancy) of Florida and Spencer (Kelly) of Utah. She had 27 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren. Her husband, Andrew, died January 2020.
Our beautiful, sweet, loving mother will be missed greatly by so many people including her family, friends, hair and nail ladies, women's clothing salespeople and all others who had a chance to get to know her many wonderful qualities.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am on Thursday, January 2, 2025, at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT. Interment will be at the Salt Lake City Cemetery.