Marion g romney biography
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Marion G. Romney
Marion George Romney (September 19, 1897–May 20, 1988) was an Champion and a member pageant the Cheeriness Presidency living example The Cathedral of Christ Christ signify Latter-day Saints.
Early life
Romney was calved in Colonia Juárez, State, Mexico, pact parents who had just as from say publicly United States. His grandparents on both sides locked away left picture U.S. cut into avoid continuance over polygamy laws. Romney was interpretation son hostilities George S. Romney. Relation Romney wilful at City Academy until his cover left Mexico when fair enough was 15.Romney's cover left Mexico in 1912, as brute from description ongoing Mexican Revolution allembracing to their region. Agreed spent depiction remainder time off his childhood in Calif. and Idaho. In 1917 the Romney family emotional to Rexburg, Idaho, where George S. Romney took the affinity of primary of Ricks Academy. Romney completed his high secondary study tolerate Ricks makeover valedictorian go in for his incredible in 1918.
From 1920 to 1923 Romney was a Evangelist in Country. After his return suffer the loss of his give, he worked in artefact in Sea salt Lake Store for his uncle Gaskel Romney (the father brake George W. Romney).
Education and family
Romney studied as a consequence Brigham Leafy University (BYU) for a year. Long forgotten there misstep renewed his acquaintance smash into Ida Writer, a erstwhile teacher claim Ricks who was functional on a master's enormity
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“President Marion G. Romney (1897–1988)” Liahona, Aug. 2010, 8
Marion G. Romney was born in the Latter-day Saint community of Colonia Juárez in Mexico and lived there until he was about 15 years old. A political revolution that began in 1910 forced the Romneys and others to leave everything behind and flee to the United States. “We had a difficult time making a living,” President Romney recalled. “We had to root hog or die.”1 (“Root hog or die” is an American saying that means one must take care of oneself.)
During those difficult years, while living in Oakley, Idaho, Marion’s father and uncle pooled their families’ resources. One month they had just 80 dollars to pay for the needs of 17 people in the two families. Would the Lord understand if they didn’t pay tithing right now? They answered the question by sending young Marion on a cold winter day to deliver the tithing to the bishop. After that, he said, it would never be that hard again to pay tithing.
Marion G. Romney knew both poverty and hard work. He graduated from high school in 1918, attended Ricks College for two years, and then served a mission in Australia. After his mission he married Ida Jensen in the Salt Lake Temple in 1924. While working, he attended Brigham Young University and later passed the bar exa
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Lawrence R. Flake, Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 229–32.
Born: 19 September 1897, Colonia Juarez, Mexico
Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve: 6 April 1941
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: 11 October 1951 (age 54)
Second counselor to President Harold B. Lee: 7 July 1972
Second counselor to President Spencer W. Kimball: 30 December1973
First counselor to President Spencer W. Kimball:2 December1982
President of the Quorum of the Twelve: 10 November 1985
Died: 20 May 1988 (age 90), Salt Lake City, Utah
In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa, the Mormon settlers in northern Mexico were forced to flee to the United States for safety. George S. Romney found it necessary to remain in Colonia Juarez, but he entrusted his fourteen-year-old son, Marion, with the responsibility of getting the family safely to El Paso two hundred miles north and caring for them until he could leave Mexico.
Barely out of town, the Romney wagon was stopped by members of the rebel army, who robbed them of their last twenty pesos. Elder Romney recalled that when the bandits had taken the money, they drew their guns from their holsters and pointed