Elder Earl M. Monson, Emeritus General Authority Seventy, Dies at Age 84
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Elder Earl Merrill Monson, who served as a General Authority Seventy from 1998 to 2002, died at age 84 in his home in South Jordan, Utah, on Thursday, May 18.
Elder Monson was sustained to be a General Authority Seventy on April 4, 1998, at the age of 65 and served in that calling until his release on October 5, 2002. (Elder Monson, whose ancestry is Norwegian, is not related to President Thomas S. Monson, whose forebears are Swedish.)
In his calling as a General Authority Seventy he served as Second Counselor in the Pacific Islands Area from 1998 to 2001 and later as First Counselor in the Pacific Islands Area from 2001 to 2002. After his release as a General Authority Seventy, he presided over the Manila Philippines Temple from 2006 to 2009.
Born on July 26, 1932, to Charles Horald and Ortencia Hendricks Merrill Monson, the leader was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a young man in grade school he learned to play the bass fiddle and played in orchestras led by Dr. Frank Asper, then Tabernacle Choir organist.
He attended the University of Utah, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture and met Donna Mae Hill. The couple was married on March 19, 1954, in the Salt Lake Temple.
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Elder Glenn L. Pace, LDS Emeritus General Authority, Dies at 77
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Elder Glenn L. Pace, a former counselor in the LDS Church’s Presiding Bishopric and emeritus general authority, passed away early Tuesday morning in Bountiful at the age of 77.
Combining his time in the Presiding Bishopric and the First Quorum of the Seventy, he gave 35 years of service as a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Elder Pace had battled serious heart problems for a decade and half.
“Fourteen years ago, he had major bypass surgery and wasn’t expected to come out of it,” recalled Rikki Riggs, one of his daughters.
He had been hospitalized again with ongoing heart problems through the past weekend, speaking very little while under medical care, Riggs said.
He made one last return home Sunday afternoon, and by the evening, he was engaged with his wife, six children, their spouses and his 35 grandchildren in what would be a meaningful and memorable final family exchange.
“He was making us all laugh — there were funny moments, tender moments,” Riggs said. “He spoke individually with each family member and each grandchild, sharing a testimony or a thought. That was indicative of how his ministry went — he wanted to minister to the rank and file of the church.”
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