YUCAIPA, Calif. – Myrtle Tucker Kimball, 98, died July 22, at Hampton Manor in California.

She was born Dec. 24, 1906, in Sumner.

She married Willis Kimball at 19 and had three sons, Bud (Willis Jr.), Robert and Ted.

After high school, she taught a year in a one-room country school. She held a variety of jobs throughout the years, including boarding chauffeurs for affluent people, spending summers at the Summit Springs Hotel in Maine, and working in a pickle canning factory in South Paris and in the Portland shipyards during World War II.

She moved to California in 1953, settling in Downey. She retired in 1974 and moved to Yucaipa, Calif.

Survivors include her son, Ted and his wife, JoAnn; daughter-in-law, Alma Kimball; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.