Pearl Tenney Romney Pearl Tenney Romney, 97 years old of Prescott, passed away on Aug. 17 in the Arizona Pioneers’ Home in Prescott. Pearl was born on Jan. 12, 1924, in Thatcher to Nathan Orson and Mary Myrtle Wear Tenney. She was the last child of 10 children. Her mother Myrtle was a schoolteacher from Texas and New Mexico, and her father Nathan was a cowboy and rancher from New Mexico and Arizona. Pearl’s parents and nine siblings and their spouses have preceded her in death Nathan Orson Tenney and Mary Myrtle Wear, Naydene T. Lane (Orson Lane), NS Tenney, W. Delbert Tenney (Annie Wilkins), Opal T. Goodman Allen (Everett Goodman and Merle Allen), N. Boyd Tenney (Rachel Teeples), Nina Belle T. Parry (Richard Parry), Lyman C Tenney (Alaire Browning), Eudora Carol T. Patterson (Richard Patterson), and Edythe Margaret T. Hendrix Bennett (J.P. Hendrix, Leo Bennett). Pearl’s husband, George Lee Romney has preceded her in death in 2003. Three of her children, Gerald Lee Romney, Shawna R. Jackson and Michele R. Garvin have also preceded her in death. Pearl is survived by her two daughters, Marsha R. Stratton (Clifford Stratton), Tami R. Parry (Douglas Parry); two son in-laws, Norman Jackson and Craig Garvin; and one daughter in-law Patricia (Oates) Romney. She is survived by 30 grandchildren, 107 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, with a total of 145 descendants. In 1925, a severe drought forced her father out of the cattle business in Southern Arizona (Graham County). The family moved to Prescott where her father purchased an Angora goat ranch which they sheared these goats twice a year and sold the mohair. They also had a milk goat dairy that they delivered to the VA Hospital at Fort Whipple. Pearl with her siblings cared for the goats in Prescott and she spent her summers herding goats in Skull Valley. This allowed her time to read. Pearl attended schools in Prescott at Washington, Jefferson and she graduated from Prescott High School. She went off to college with her sister for a short while in Idaho. The different jobs that she had growing up were babysitting, cleaning houses, waitress in a café, telephone operator, etc. Pearl worked for the Prescott Recreation Department. She taught dancing at the Armory and she taught arts and crafts in the schools. Pearl served a mission to the east central states (Kentucky and Virginia) for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Prescott Ward. She married George Lee Romney and together they served missions in Sydney, Australia and Mesa, Arizona. Throughout Pearl’s life she has lived in Graham County, Prescott, Salt Lake City, Utah, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Cottonwood, Mesa and Snowflake. Her final days were spent back where she grew up, in Prescott at the Arizona Pioneers’ Home.
