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Camilla (E. Kimball)

A Biography of Camilla Eyring Kimball

Caroline Eyring Miner,
Edward L. Kimball

Deseret Book Company
Salt Lake City, Utah

© 1980 Deseret Book Company

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To the memory of
Caroline Romney and
Edward Christian Eyring

About This Book

Camilla Eyring was born in 1894 in the Mormon colonies of northern Mexico. At seventeen she fled with her family from the dangers of revolution and was sent alone to Utah to finish high school and earn her own way in the world.

As a young schoolteacher she met and married Spencer Kimball, as he waited to be called into military service in World War I. After twenty-five years of rearing a family and supporting her husband in his business, civic, and Church responsibilities, she found herself in 1943 the wife of an apostle and in 1973 the wife of the prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.