E. Kimball, 92, Late Mormon Chief’s Wife, Dies

Eyring Kimball, wife of the late Mormon Church President Spencer W. Kimball and who as a teen-ager was forced by revolutionaries to flee her native Mexico, is dead. She was 92 and died Sunday at her Salt Lake City home.

Mrs. Kimball was born in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. When she was 17 revolutionaries in the Mexican civil war threatened Mormon colonies in Chihuahua and Sonora and she was sent to Provo, Utah, to live with an uncle.

While in Provo, she finished high school and completed a college major in home economics and later studied at the University of California.

Meantime, her family had moved from Mexico to Arizona, where she eventually joined them and met her future husband, whom she wed in 1917. He served as church president from 1973 until his death in 1985.