Item Detail
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Geldmacher, Virginia Worthington
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1914-2000
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MSS 827
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Biography
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Virginia Worthington Geldmacher was born July 28, 1914 in Grantsville, Utah to Samuel Hilton and Elizabeth Hale Worthington. She attended school in Grantsville and had seven siblings. When she was twelve years old, she went to San Francisco to live with her aunt. She attended school there for six years before returning to Grantsville. In 1933, she met and married Raymond William Geldmacher, who was from Lewisville, Ohio. In 1934, he was baptized into the LDS Church and they were sealed in the Salt Lake City Temple on October 14, 1934. Together, they had five children. They lived in Grantsville, where they owned and operated a G & H store. Virginia died October 5, 2000.
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Part of the J. Allen Parkinson collection, this is a typescript biography written by Virginia's son, Sam Geldmacher. It is two pages, with three lines on the second page, and is located in the eighth folder of the collection, which is labeled, Biographies, GA-GU. There is minimal personal detail of Virginia, although Sam does write that she was active in the Church, serving once as first counselor in the Stake Primary. Sam also provides a short history of his father, Raymond.