Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

Keith Romney (1913-2003)

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The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 390-391

 I was born April 21, 1913 in El Paso, Texas, the following spring after my parents, Miles A. Romney and Frances Turley Romney, came out of Mexico during the Revolution. Soon after this, the family moved to the Safford, Arizona area; and, on a later expulsion, to Virden, New Mexico. In 1917, at age four, I returned with the family to Colonia Juarez in a covered wagon.  After a ten-day trip through sand, mesquite, chaparral, and sun, this colony seemed like the Garden of Eden.

I attended school in Colonia Juarez in the red brick Church-Schoolhouse with the bell tower, and later, the Academy,  graduating in 1931.  After briefly attending New Mexico State Teacher's College at Silver City, I transferred to BYU. in Provo, Utah for 1933-34.  Resuming my education, I registered at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces and attended from 1970-73, graduating with honors, with a B.A. in Dec., 1972 and completing my M.A. in 1974.

I married Ruth Miranda Call in Brigham City, Utah on Dec. 26, 1934. We were sealed in the Arizona Temple February 17, 1935.

For 31 years I was an automobile dealer. Ruth,  Since returning to New Mexico State University, I have taught Spanish for two years.  My hobbies have been hunting, fishing, and travel.  I have been active in Boy Scouts, receiving the Silver Beaver award.

I was branch president, organizing it from the beginning, in Las Cruces, New Mexico 1941-1950; and a member of the El Paso Stake Presidency from 1952-1962; then bishop of the Las Cruces Ward 1962-65; mission president of the West Spanish American Mission in Los, Angeles, California 1965-67; then president of the Southeast Mexican Mission, Vera Cruz, Mexico 1967-69.  I was called to be stake Patriarch in August, 1974. I have been a member of the Las Cruces Lions Club from 1940 to 1965; member of Honorary Spanish Society at New Mexico State Univ.; and received Master M Men award in 1972.

Ruth Miranda Call Romney was born Dec. 23, 1913 in Brigham City, Utah, daughter of Justin David and Lula Elizabeth Bryan Call. 

Children of Keith and Ruth Romney:

Carolyn Romney Bennett, born Nov. 25, 1936 in El Paso, Tex,

Keith Romney, Jr., born June 15, 1940 in Las Cruces, N.M.

Bryan Romney, born March 8, 1948 in Las Cruces, N.M.

Keith Romney died 9 December 2003. [IGI]

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