Florence Romney

Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

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Florence Romney (Mrs. Isadore Lieber) (1897-1974)

The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 375-376

Florence was born in Colonia Juarez, Mexico on Oct.3,1897. She grew up in Mexico and attended the Juarez Stake Academy. Florence had a happy personality that made her many friends. She was always generous in thought and deed. She was a beautiful girl; people turned to look at her a second time.

[Parents Miles Archibald and Frances Turley Romney[

At the time of the Exodus, Edna and Florence left the colonies and went to El Paso and then on to Gila College to school. Later they went to Salt Lake and enrolled at the University of Utah, Florence went with a family to Cuba to tutor their daughter in Spanish. Upon her return she married a boy friend she had met in El Paso, Isadore Lieber. They made their home in Shreveport, Louisiana Her husband became a wealthy man and both Isadore and Florence were influential and prominent in civic affairs. He was a third degree Mason. Florence was always generous in donating to the Latter-day Saint’s Church. They had many friends in Shreveport where they resided all their married life.

Florence studied painting and enrolled in the nearby college. She became a painter and a poet in her own right. Florence and Isadore had two children: Jacqueline and Miles Harrison. As little children Florence would bring them home to Mexico to visit their grandparents. Florence loved to come home to visit and she had her mother come down to Shreveport many times to visit. She "mothered" her younger brothers and sisters and saw that they did not lack for the things they needed. She also helped them in their desire to go to college later. At one time she and her husband and children visited Gordon in Douglas. Their car was parked near Gordon's place of business. It was stolen and all the suitcases were thrown out into the nearby desert. The car was later recovered in Bisbee. That was the last time that Isadore traveled by car to the wild and woolly west. They took the train after that.

Florence loved life, people and books. In her later life when she became ill she read a great deal. As she said, "I have practically read the whole library."