The winds of St. John began to blow Timothy Richard Judall home, and by the early hours of a mild spring morning on the Lord’s Day he had left this world, his beautiful and faithful wife of fifty-two years, Maria Evangelina. (Vanjie) was with God. who gave him life. Tim was born to Gwendolyn Vivian and Raymond Keith Udall. The family was poor, but they were fortunate enough to spend their formative years harvesting asparagus along the banks of a ditch in Fredonia, Arizona. It has grown to resemble a 100 year old elm tree. Elder Udal (one of the first missionaries to serve a two-and-a-half-year Church mission to western Mexico), Private/Expert Udal (conscripted into the U.S. Army in the summer of 1968 at age 25, served two tours) Mr. Udall (who spent most of his 40 years teaching third and fourth grades, influencing (teaching) some 2,200 students who “decorated” his classroom), brother Udall (a friend and missionary to all friends, especially those outside the church) was what he did, not the how and why. (his words), he spent the rest of his life cultivating people and plants (including a “test” orchard of 300 apple trees of over 400 varieties). This “tree of righteousness, which the Lord has planted” (Isaiah 61:3) will be his family, community, nation, and all those under his branches, especially those who are forgotten, fatherless, and trampled. It has been a strength to those who were discouraged, disillusioned and misunderstood. The alienated widows and vagabonds, the young and longing, received Christlike relief from the storms of life. His wife Vangie recalls him coming home from his fair in Apache County, looking for clean underwear for the carnival workers. His son Pacer remembers his depressed single father and his son coming to the house for help. Tim put him to work with Pacer digging foundations to add to our home.They were then offered one of the meals Vangie had asked for and given some money His daughter Tana remembers her own daughter going with Grandpa (as he used to do with Dad) to visit a woman who needed to tell his story. Her granddaughter returned with edible lavender, which she still makes into lemonade on special occasions, and his newlywed daughter, Letty, was run into a man at church and asked if she was Tim Udall’s daughter. He said he joined the church because he remembered at a young age how her father used to take care of her divorced mother’s garden on a weekly basis. Youngest daughter Lena remembers working on the farm and spending special time with her father in the orchard. One day Lena had to share her father with a troubled boy. The boy needed a father figure to spend time with and teach her how to work. You have your own personal story with him, his four children and his 24 grandchildren invite you to share with them. A service will be held “right after school” on Thursday, May 4 at 4 p.m. at the downtown chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in St. John’s, Arizona, followed by a military burial in St. John’s. Grave. Instead of flowers, the family suggests planting and growing someone with gospel turf, as Tim always did. Arranged by Barnum Mortuary (www.burnhammortuary.com).