Florence Ruth Glanville

Alternate Names

     She was also known as Ruth. Her married name was Homer. Her married name was Johnson.

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Florence Ruth Glanville was born on 31 December 1913 at UT, USA.
     She married Barney S. Johnson between 1933 and 1935 at the USA.
     Florence Ruth Glanville and Barney S. Johnson were divorced after 1940.
     She married Paul Logan Homer after 1940 at the USA.
     She died on 21 May 2002 at UT, USA, (when age calculated as 88); with obituary:
Published: Friday, May 24 2002 10:27 a.m. MDT (Desert News)
Ruth Glanville Johnson Homer, a former Assistant Business Manager of the LDS Hospital, Supervisor of Medical Services for the Utah State Welfare Department, and an Officer of the Utah and the National Apartment Owners' Association, died on Tuesday, May 21, 2002 in Salt Lake City of pneumonia following surgery. She was 88.
Mrs. Homer was Valedictorian of her West High School Class of 1930. She studied business administration and Russian at the University of Utah. She was a member of the Salt Lake Council of the Business and Professional Women's Club, a member of the Women's Legislative Council, and a1960 member of the White House Commission on Aging. She set up Medicaid in the State of Utah and was its first Director.
Mrs. Homer served as PTA President at Douglas School, Roosevelt Junior High, and East High School. She was also Vice-President of the University of Utah Mothers' Association.
Interested in local and national politics, Mrs. Homer was a Contributing Member of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, as well as Emily's List and the Anti-Defamation League. Mrs. Homer was a founding donor of the Broadcasters Club at KUED. She was an accomplished artist in watercolor and oil and an ardent traveler.
Mrs. Homer was born to Mode Rupert Glanville and Florence Agnes Smith Glanville Her first marriage to Barney S. Johnson ended in divorce. She later married Paul Logan Homer, a retired rancher, who died in 1995. She is survived by her brothers Gerald Glanville of Coos Bay, Oregon; Douglas Glanville of Holladay, Utah; and a sister Naomi Wilmeth of Carmichael, California.
She is also survived by a daughter, Janice Lyon Millar of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and a son, Thomas Glanville Johnson of Olympia, Washington; four grandchildren: Anne Lyon League of Colorado Springs; Cori Johnson Birnel, Lisa Johnson Brown of Federal Way, Washington; and Thomas Jeffrey Johnson of Lynnwood, Washington: eight great-grand- children and two great-great-grand-children.
Services will be held at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday May 25th, followed by a reception at a nearby private club. Interment, Park City, Utah.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to KUED Channel 7, 101 Wasatch Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 or the US fund for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) at 333 E. 38th Street, 6th floor, NY, NY 10016.
     She was buried in 2002 at Park City Cemetery, Park City, Summit Co., UT, USA.

Other information

     Florence was married 2 times.