This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blau, Rubottom, Gerber, Griffeth Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eg.2ADE/367 Message Board Post: The Herald Journal,12/18/01 Martin Vinton Blau was born May 22, 1915 in Southern Logan County on the prairies of Western Kansas. He was the oldest of five sons born to Louie and Julia Louisa Rubottom. He grew up on a wheat and cattle ranch. He was educated in one-room county schools and graduated from Russell Springs High School. With minimal training, he taught one year in the same elementary school that he attended as a child. He spent three years working in the CCC sending money home to help his family during the Great Depression. In the spring of 1937, he came to Utah where his uncles lived and worked. He investigated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and was baptized in 1938. He met and courted Albertine Gerber. They were married on March 21, 1939, in the Logan LDS Temple. After living in Malad, Idaho where Julene was born, they bought a farm in Nibley where Katherine, Terry and Leon were born. Milking cows, putting up hay with his Farmhand hay stacker and growing crops for Del Monte kept him busy. In 1953, they bought a larger farm in Dayton, where Reed was born. Martin raised, sorted and sold potatoes and raised crops for Del Monte and feed for cattle. Martin loved the gospel of Jesus Christ and has been a devoted home teacher. He has served as a counselor in a bishopric and has served as a counselor in Elders’ and High Priests’ quorums several times. He loved playing church softball and served in MIA ward and stake positions. After selling the farm in 1978, he and Albertine served an LDS mission to the Washington Temple and later in northeastern Nebraska. They were faithful at attending the temple and ultimately served as temple officiators twice a week. His great love was family history searching compiling and submitting hundreds of names for his family. After the passing of Albertine, he married Cheryl Griffeth on Jan. 22, 2000, in the Logan LDS Temple. They shared two happy years together. Children are Julene and Harry Rindlesbacher (Amalga), Katherine Winger Pakradounian and Albert (Logan), Terry and Connie Allen Blau (Twin Falls, Idaho), Reed and Robyn Winger Blau (Richmond). His brothers in Kansas are Fredrick of Ashland, John of Leoti, and Charles and Joyce of Marienthal. He was preceded in death by his wife, Albertine Gerber, his brother, Hale, and his son, Leon. Martin enjoyed 22 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 20 in the Logan 14th Ward, 94 W. 600 South, Logan, with Bishop Daryl Reece conducting. Friends may call Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dayton Idaho LDS Church and Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church in Logan. Interment will be in the Logan City Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Webb Funeral Home, Preston.