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[6] In addition, Woodruff recorded that Smoot's funeral procession was "the longest [he had] ever seen in Utah." [39] Smoot was survived by two of his wives and nineteen of his children. [5]: 236 In 1962, BYU's administration building was named after Smoot. In 2015, he was remembered and celebrated at BYU's homecoming events. [4]
Homer Vernon Smoot (March 23, 1878 – March 25, 1928), nicknamed "Doc", was an American professional baseball player. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball, for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds, from 1902 until 1906, primarily as a center fielder.
Smoot was the first president to call an unmarried woman (Dew) as a member of the Relief Society General Presidency. [3] Smoot was succeeded in 2002 by Bonnie D. Parkin. [ 11 ] In her role as an LDS leader, she has traveled throughout North and South America, and to a long list of countries including India, Russia, Nigeria , and Japan .
Leon Douglas Smoot was born on July 26, 1934, to Douglas P. and Jennie (Hallam) Smoot. He was born in Provo, Utah but he and his family moved to Springville, Utah in 1941. . He grew up in Springville as the youngest of three children and graduated from Springville High School in 19
Brigham Smoot was born on June 15, 1869, in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Abraham O. Smoot and Anne K. Mauritsen [N 1], his fifth of six plural wives. [4] [3] [1] Brigham's brother Reed Smoot went on to be a businessman and an apostle in the LDS Church before being elected by the state legislature as United States Senator from Utah in 1903.
Ida Smoot was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Abraham O. Smoot and Anne Kirstine Mauritsen on May 5, 1873. [1] She was the sister of Reed Smoot and Brigham Smoot. Dusenberry attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo beginning at age five, graduating in 1897. While in school she married George A. Dusenberry (1891) and became the mother ...
Reed Smoot. January 10, 1862 - February 9, 1941; U.S. Senator from Utah, 1903–33; Delegate to Republican National Convention from Utah, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932; Member of Republican National Committee from Utah, 1912–20; Son of Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) Half-brother of Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911) Half-uncle of Abraham ...
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]