Gustave S. Omer, born in Osterplana, Sweden of humble Latter-day Saint parents, grew to young manhood in his native land. He attended the public school there and graduated from the same.

His parents home was always open to the Mormon Missionaries, so he has many very varied experiences and memories of those days, the many nights when he and his brothers and sisters gave up their beds for the Elders, and sometimes went hungry too, so the missionaries could be fed.

As a young man, about eighteen, he left his parents and younger brother and sisters to come to Utah, where his older sister Augusta and brother Gideon, just younger than he, had previously emigrated to. Augusta was living in Salt Lake City, doing housework to make a living for herself. Gideon was with Otto J. and Emma Poulson on Provo Bench. He came over with Uncle Otto when he returned from his mission in the summer of 1904.

The Omer home had been like a second home to father while he was in the mission field, so it was only natural that Gustave came to live with us. He stayed with us for several years, then when his parents came to Utah and settled in South Salt Lake and his father went to work at the Salt Lake Press Brick Company, just north of their home, Gustave went to stay with his folks working at the Brick yard too. He remained with his parents, helping them pay for their home. Some time in the early spring of 1913 he returned to live with us and help father with the farm work, and the following summer, June 1914, he and Leona were married.

They lived in two rooms here at home until 1917, then they moved to Aunt Louisa Ogden's home. Grant was born at that home in July 1919 and not long after that they moved to the little home across the street from home. Father sold them the ground and gave them our old summer kitchen, which they moved onto the land and made into a comfortable two room home. As the family grew in size and numbers, Gus added onto this home, so that the last few years of Leona's life she had a nice home. Though she was stricken with a severe stroke which left her right side partially paralyzed, the last nine years of her life, she and Gus enjoyed their home together. He worked at the Geneva Steel plant those years, and so was able to add many little luxuries to their home and in every way he could, make life as pleasant as possible for Leona.