Ruth Goodrich Stone, age 96, died March 14, 1994 at her son's home in Sandy.

She was born July 22, 1897 in Vernal, Utah to George Albert and Rhoda Slade Goodrich. She married Arvil Oliver Stone March 10, 1919 in Duchesne, Utah; marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.

She graduated from Brigham Young Academy [actually Brigham Young High School] with a teaching certificate. She was a homemaker and served in the LDS Church in various callings in the auxiliaries, including the Stake Relief Society board, and she taught literature for many years.

She was survived by five sons and one daughter, Arvil G. Stone, Sandy; Reed L. Stone, Provo; Dal M. Stone and Donald J. Stone, both of Lake Elsinore, Calif.; Lewis Kay Stone, Lehi; Mrs. Eldon (Elva Myrle) Cox, Salt Lake City; 21 grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Thursday March 17, 1994 in Lehi, Utah. Interment, Lehi City Cemetery.

Deseret News, Tuesday, March 15, 1994
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Ruth Goodrich was the daughter of Rhoda Slade and George Albert Goodrich.

As children she used to write plays and put them on in the "Smoke House" and the granary. The granary had different bins or compartments which made great dressing rooms. Her father George Albert Goodrich died when she was thirteen years old. With her brothers and sisters help she went to college and got her teaching degree.

Arvil courted Ruth for two years while she went to school in Provo, during which time they went in his father's new Elgin automobile, Arvil's horse-drawn buggy,and on his motorcycle. They planned their future wedding, and she left to teach school in Bluebell. She taught there until March of next spring when the influenza epeidemic caused schools, churches and the Temple to be closed.

So Arvil and Ruth were married in Duchesne by the mayor on March 10, 1919. They traveled to Vineyard and took over his father's dairy farm and his parents moved to Salt Lake. They moved into their home and set up housekeeping.

Their first child, Arvil G., was born here. and Ruth taught school and they hired a housekeeper to care for the baby and the house. Ruth taught fifth and sixth grade at Vineyard School which was about a block away.

In September 1920 they bought thirty acres of land with a three-bedroom brick house with a full basement. They had cool clear running water piped in from a spring which furnished enough water for irrigation, and there was a dumb waiter. They placed milk and food in the dumb waiter and lowered or raised it from each floor.

Four more children were born on the "Sandhill Farm": Reed, March 22,1922; Dal, October 24, 1923; Elva Myrtle, April 24, 1926; and Donald, February 27, 1930. The depression hit and they sold the farm in 1934 and bought a larger one adjoining Arvil's parents. Their last child, Lewis Kay was born here, March 6, 1936.

Four years later they sold their equity in that farm and moved back to Arvil's parents farm. Arvil and the boys operated it until the U.S. government purchased it to build a large modern steel plant.

They now moved in Lehi. In 1968, after twenty-six years on the Lehi farm they sold it and moved into the town of Lehi in a house that Dal had built. They were happy here and glad to be away from all the problems of farm life.

* Check out the Goodrich Family Organization