Comments: President Gertsch is from the Midway Fifth Ward, Midway Utah Stake, and has served as a high councilor, bishop, Elders quorum president, Young Men president and counselor, Scoutmaster, Sunday School teacher, and missionary in the Mexico Veracruz Mission. A director of marketing services for Williams Pipeline, he has received bachelor's and master's degrees in marketing from BYU. He was born in Heber City, Utah, to Ray Oscar and Maeda Alice Murri Gertsch. He and his wife, Claudia Bale, have five children. She has served as a ward family history consultant, stake Young Women counselor, stake Primary board member, stake cultural arts specialist, Refief Society homemaking leader, Mai Maid adviser, Beehive adviser, Primary teacher, and missionary in the Englad London East Mission. Born in Montrose, Colorado, to Jake G. and Marie Evelyn Arnold Bale, she attended Brigham Young University. |