John William Martin GRUBER

                   OCCUPATION:  Dairy Farmer
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Paul Gruber and Wilbur Kiser and Raleigh Snyder (druggist in Shippenville) and McMillen (furniture store and undertaker) served on Board of First National Bank of Shippenville.  Horace Bittenbender was President.   Years 1930's 1940's until 1950's when the bank merged with First Seneca Bank.  Paul was bought out.

During the same years, Paul Gruber and Wilbur Kiser wer also involved on the Board of Clarion County Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Clarion.  It merged with Marble Mutual Insurance Company of Marble, PA.

Also on the Advisery Board of DHIA Diary Herd Improvement Association, which did milk testing monthly for butterfat.    This was a community service. Monthly the testers would take a sample of each cow milked that day - twice a day.  The farmer would receive the results of each cow and what she was producing.  If the cow was not producing well enough, she went to the butchers.  Total pounds of milk produced and the percentage of butterfat for that day's production.
                  

                   BURIAL:  Resthaven Cemetery at 43rd St and East Souther Ave in Phoenix , Maricopa, Arizona.

MARRIAGE:   Thelma Gruber was married in Panama on 3 Sep 1938.  She and Everett traveled to New York City and met with members of the church there.  She was baptised in the LDS Church in New York City on Sep 12, 1938.  They then traveled to Pennsylvania to meet the Grubers and then to Utah to meet the Golds.

RESIDENCES:
Birth -  Gruber Dairy Farm, Elk Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania
1925-28   West Penn Hospital and Nurses Training,  Pittsburgh, PA
1928-31   Apartment with friends, Gen and      ;  305 So. Winebiddle St., No. 1493;  Pittsburgh, PA
1931-38  Panama
1938-       Hospital Nurses Quarters
1944 June - moved from Panama to SLC
                         1056 S. 8th West, SLC
1949          -  East Mill Creek,  3487 East 35th South, SLC
1953 July  -  222 East Colter,  Phoenix, AZ
1978          -  5039 North 34th Place, Phoenix, AZ
Summers -  Woodland, Utah  and  Kamas, Utah,


BIOGRAPHY:    Thelma attended Chestnut Grove School in Elk Township. Her grade school had one teacher with about 30 students.  Groups would be 1-2 grade, 3-4 grade, 56 grade, 7-8 grade.  The students would go to the front of the room and sit on a bench to be in front of the teacher and recite to her.  Then they'd go back to their seats.  Thelma said she learned a lot by listening to the older students recite their lessons.
       In 1913, Grandmother Martha Jane Black died, and Thelma's mother, Minnie and her sister Myrtle, inherited the Homestead home.  Thelma's family moved there, and Aunt Myrtle began living with them.
       Thelma was the first girl in their township to go to their High School. To go to High School, you had to pass a County exam.  The teacher would say if you passed or not.
       After high school graduation, she was home for 2 school years, then took Nurses Training at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. During those years, both brothers married. She graduated from the three year program in 1928.
       Thelma did Private Duty Nursing for 50 cents an hour for twelve hour shifts, sometimes for patients in hospitals and sometimes at their homes.  During the Depression, you didn't dare complain about a job - at least it was a job.  She says that many nurses were working for room and board only.
       Then she began doing Public Health Nursing in Pittsburgh, while waiting to hear about her application to work in Panama Canal Zone. In July 1931, she sailed on a boat for Panama.  She worked mostly at Gorgas Hospital and learned "how to discipline a child with love."  Returning from vacation at home, and on the boat Thelma met Everett Gold in Sept 1937.  They were married Sept 3, 1938 in Panama, and she retired from nursing.
       Thelma and Everett lived 6 years in Panama, 9 years in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then in Phoenix, Arizona.  They have raised a family of six fine children.  They have served in the church unselfishly.  Thelma has supported her husband in all aspects of his life.  He died March 10, 1996.  She continues to live alone and loves her flowers and her family.  At this writing she is 92 years old and pretty healthy and definitely independent

TEMPLE ORDINANCES:  Sealing of Thelma to her parents; Arizona Temple, File no. 37060; 20 April 1973; with Everett V. Gold as proxy for her father, J.W.M. Gruber and Marsha J. Gold Allen as proxy for her mother, Minnie L. Black; sealer was Egbert J. Brown; witnesses were Billy G. Young and Kelvin W. Gold.