![]() ![]() When he came home, he was nearly drafted to fight in World War I, but bureaucratic problems delayed this until eventually, he was not called up. Kimball was called on a mission to the Central United States, where he was called to preside over 25 missionaries, most of whom were older, and some of whom were married. Flake, "Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation," p. His father described him an "exceptional boy," who "always tries to mind me, whatever I ask him to do" (Quoted in L. ![]() Nevertheless, he persevered and graduated from high school. He also was required to work hard on the family farm, when he was physically able. He had four siblings die, and his mother died when he was only eleven years old. He suffered from typhoid fever, smallpox, and temporary paralysis, but was miraculously cured. ![]() When Spencer was three years old, the family moved to Thatcher, Arizona, a small community in southeastern Arizona, so that his father could serve as a stake president in the area. ![]() His father was a traveling salesman who worked throughout the American West. Kimballīorn Spencer Woolley Kimball on March 28, 1895, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Spencer was the son of Andrew Kimball (whose father was Apostle Heber C. ![]()
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