Rosetta Katherine Homer Lutz and her husband George Dubois Lutz
Rosetta Katherine Homer Lutz
BY HER DAUGHTER, ROSETTA LUTZ POPE
My mother, Rosetta K. Homer, was County, Iowa, the 10th child of Russell King and Eliza Williamson Homer. She was the baby of the family when they crossed the Plains in 1858, and of course remembered nothing of the family life until some years later. The events in the history of the Homer family are detailed elsewhere in this volume, so need no repetition here, except to say that she lived the life of any normal girl.
On November 22, 1874, she was married to George D. Lutz at Smithfield, Utah, after which they went with other Saints, in accordance with the call of the Church Authorities, to Utah’s Dixie to help pioneer that region. Their two oldest children, George Albert and their daughter Rosetta K., were born there. After five years of hard work and poverty at Springdale, during which they endured many hardships, principal among which were excessive heat and lack of a balanced diet, they returned to northern Utah and settled at Randolph in the Bear Lake country. The ordeal of living in Dixie caused her health to
break, and she really was never very well afterward.
Another daughter, Myrtle, was born at Randolph, April 18, 1881. In that year, they moved to Vernal, Utah, where they resided for two years before returning to Garden City on Bear Lake. Her mother served as second counsellor in the ward Relief Society and also taught a class in Sunday School. She made many friends and really enjoyed living there.
She was always a sincere and faithful worker in the L.D. S. Church organizations. She taught her children truth and honesty and obedience. One of the maxims of her life which she lived by and besought others to do also was, “lf you can’t say something good about a person, say nothing at all.” She was refined and sensitive of nature, enjoying music and dancing and other wholesome amusements, but I never did know her to laugh at a coarse joke.
In the year 1907, she and father moved to Blackfoot, Idaho, where she lived until the time of her death, July Il, 1923.
Her children were as follows:
| George Albert Lutz | Mercy Vilate Whittington |
| Rosetta Katherine Lutz | Charles Wallace Pope |
| Myrtle Lutz | Phillip Richard Moore |
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