Wilma Odell

WILMA SROB ODELL grew up on a New Jersey dairy farm forty-jive minutes from New York City. A graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, she now lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Kenneth, and two teenaged sons. She is working as an interviewer for the National Institute of Mental Health and is a vocational tutor at a local high school. In addition to being a member of all four Jewish women's organizations in Salt Lake City, Wilma is a vice-chair of Friends of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and a dues-paying member of such diverse groups as Common Cause, the Utah Symphony Guild, the Simon Weisenthal Center, and the YWCA.

I Married a Mormon and Lived to Tell This Tale: East Meets West

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 1

I have enthusiastically accepted the invitation to share my experiences as a “cultural Jew” married to a “cultural Mormon.” Kenneth and I have been married almost twenty-three years. I have lived in Salt Lake City since 1971 and before that for nine months when we were first married.