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Is the LDS Church for women?
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Women with stories to tell
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A varied history Called by some as a church for women, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ history with women is a winding road
caregiving, helping with the building of the temple and doing their part in moving the kingdom of God forward. After Joseph Smith’s death in 1844, the saints moved west and policies changed. Now the church directs those blessings of healing to be done by men holding the priesthood. While women can pray using their faith, the hands-on blessings are only performed by male priesthood holders.
Halting the Relief Society BY GENELLE PUGMIRE
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omen have been a part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since its beginning, though often not as visibly as their male counterparts.
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Only a few months after organizing the church in 1830, Joseph Smith shared that he received a revelation from God specifically for his wife, Emma Smith. In it, she was given several responsibilities. One of those was unique to that historical time period. It told her that she would be ordained “to expound scriptures, and to exhort the church, according as it shall be given thee by my Spirit.” Emma Smith was not the only woman of her time to have a significant role within the new church. Kate Holbrook, managing historian with the Church History Department and co-author of “The First 50 years of Relief Society,” explained that the organization of the Relief Society in 1842 “gave women their own organization, in some ways analogous to a priesthood quorum, in which they could receive collective doctrinal instruction and have new opportunities for service.” At the time, many female leaders called it “the women’s quorum,” Holbrook explained. “Years later, one member of the Nauvoo Relief Society compared the women’s group to the School of the Prophets, in which church elders assembled in the 1830s to receive ecclesiastical instruction and prepare for temple rituals,” Holbrook says in her book.
Administering to the sick
Early on, women gave blessings of healing by laying on of hands and praying for those who were sick, and Joseph Smith approved of this work, according to the April 28, 1842 minutes of Relief Society. From that point on, women in Nauvoo were blessing the sick, building up their charitable
According to Holbrook’s book, Brigham Young halted the operations of the Relief Society after Joseph Smith’s death, declaring he would “get up Relief Society” again when he decided to “summon them [the women] to my aid.” Women still organized to address issues of women’s health and other issues. In 1853, following several skirmishes and warring with local Native American tribes, 17 women organized a society to help make clothes for Native American women and children. Young reestablished the Relief Society in 1867.
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Sister Emma Hale Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith and first Relief Society President of the church.
Early suffragists and Martha Hughes Cannon Utah territory women were given the right to vote in 1870, but had that right taken away by the federal government in 1887 with the Edmunds-Tucker Act. That act took the vote away from the women, auspiciously based on the church’s practice of polygamy. Martha Hughes Cannon, who had been in exile as a plural wife, retaliated and rallied women to fight for suffrage. She became the leader of the Utah Women’s Suffrage Association and traveled to many conferences. She had close associations with Susan B. Anthony and was the featured speaker at the Women’s Congress at the World’s Colombian Exhibition of 1893. Cannon encouraged women to be educated. “Somehow I know that women who stay home all the time have the most unpleasant homes there are. You give me a woman who thinks about something besides cook stoves and wash tubs and baby flannels, and I’ll show you, nine times out of ten, a successful mother,” Cannon said. During this time, Young encouraged women, from the pulpit in a General Conference session, that women should enter the medical field and become doctors. Cannon went on to earn four degrees and set up a medical practice in Salt Lake City. After women gained back the right to vote in 1896 as part of Utah becoming a state, Cannon
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Early photo of Martha Hughes Cannon, one of the most influential women in the church. She was a state senator, doctor, wife and mother.
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Sister Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society.
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Sister Belle Spafford, longest serving general president of the Relief Society from April 1946 to October 1974.
ing church teachings in public forums, including promoting lessons online on how to agitate for change in getting women the priesthood. During the same time, Sister Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, touts the church as “a woman’s church,” in her speaking travels throughout the world. “The scope and the field that is open to me as a woman as revealed in LDS doctrine is more empowering than I can wrap my brain around. There is nothing else like it in any other faith traDAILY HERALD FILE PHOTO dition,” Beck said in a 2014 FairKate Kelly hugs a supporter outside the LDS Church Office Building during Mormon Conference address. a vigil in downtown Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 22, 2014. The vigil coincided with the disciplinary hearing for Kate Kelly being held in Virginia. In recent years the church has focused a lot of energy on the women. Besides praying and ran for state senator on the Dem- of the Seattle Washington Tem- speaking in General Conference ocratic ticket. Her husband An- ple, a sacred place of worship and in ward meetings, general gus Cannon ran on the Republican for church members. Her open women leaders are now apart ticket. opposition to the church’s stand of the highest priesthood counShe won. on the amendment lead to her cils in the church.Younger sister excommunication. missionaries can now wear pants, Modern times While Johnson was taking nearly shameful just a decade In the 1900s, women contin- her voice to the street, Barbara ago,and the General Women’s ued to have important roles in B. Smith, general president of sessions now included girls as the church. Belle Smith Spaf- the Relief Society was actively young as 8. Women and the wives ford, the longest serving general involved in not only asking the of general authorities have been president of the Relief Society, women of the church to oppose more visible and have addressed was involved in many national the amendment, but she was a congregations more than ever and international women’s or- voice for the church in opposing before. ganizations. women in the military and aborMany former and current “Never have women had tion. church leaders encourage women greater influence than in today’s In 2013, Kate Kelly founded to raise their voices and share world. Never have the doors Ordain Women, an organization their strengths, insights, eduof opportunity opened wider seeking priesthood ordination cation, empowerment and faith for them,” Spafford said of the for women in the church. That with others. church during her service in the organization continues today. “Much of the major growth 1970s. “This is an inviting, excitThe Ordain Women campaign that is coming to the Church in ing, challenging, and demanding takes its greatest argument from the last days will come because period of time for women. It is a what Christianity sees as the many of the good women of the time rich in rewards if we keep greatest witness of all — that it world … will be drawn to the our balance, learn the true val- was women, not men, who were Church in large numbers. This ues of life, and wisely determine the first to witness Christ’s res- will happen to the degree that priorities.” urrection. the women of the Church reflect At the same time, some women Kelly was eventually excom- righteousness and articulateness did not see these opportunities. municated. After two tries at in their lives and to the degree Sonia Johnson, a member of getting her church membership that the women of the Church are the church, was a vocal pro- reinstated, Kelly learned the First seen as distinct and different-in ponent for the Equal Rights Presidency denied her third and happy ways-from the women of Amendment and equal rights for final appeal for church member- the world,” said former prophet women in the 1970s and 1980s. ship. and president, Spencer W. KimShe disagreed publicly with the Kelly made it a point of sharing ball, in 1979. church’s official stance on the her private church matters with Daily Herald reporter Genelle Equal Rights Amendment, and the national and local media. In Pugmire can be contacted at gpugon one occasion she protested the end, she was excommuni- mire@heraldextra.com, (801) 344by chaining herself to the gates cated for apostasy and oppos- 2910, Twitter @gpugmire
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10 LDS women of influence throughout history BY GENELLE PUGMIRE
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Since the organization of the Relief Society on March 17, 1842 the call for the women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to care for the needy, feed the poor, gain in spiritual stature and be the light in a world of darkness has been the organization’s constant mission. From its small beginning in Nauvoo, Illinois to a current membership of 7.1 million women in more than 188 countries, women of the Relief Society, proclaimed by the church as the largest women’s organization in the world, continues to flourish. While it is impossible to share the names and faces of many the women who have been influential in the church and left a mark on the world, a selected few might give a bigger picture of the women of the Relief Society.
LEADING BLACK MEMBERS Jane Elizabeth Manning James
Born: 1813 Died: April 16, 1908 Jane Elizabeth Manning James joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the fall of 1842, and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where she served in the home of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith. Ac-
cording to her memoirs, during her time at the Smith home she was allowed to see the Urim and Thummim, the translators the prophet said he used to translate the Book of Mormon. On more than one occasion, James was offered to be adopted by the Smiths, and she could be sealed to them in a special ceremony written for her. She declined. After Joseph Smith was martyred, James served in the home of Brigham Young. It was from his home that she married Isaac James. He was born a free man and was a convert to the church. They moved west and Jane became one of the first documented African American women to come to the Utah Territory. While her marriage to James lasted only a few years, Jane remained faithful to the church her entire life. Throughout her life she would continue to ask if she could receive her endowments in the temple; she said she was turned down on several occasions. Finally, President Joseph F. Smith, being reminded of the desire of the Joseph Smith and his wife Emma, sealed James as an eternal servant to the Smiths in a special temple ceremony. Joseph F. Smith’s wife, Bethsheba acted as James’ proxy as she was not allowed in the temple. She was endowed by proxy in 1979 in the temple following the revelation through President Spencer W. Kimball that blacks could receive the priesthood.
Jane Elizabeth Manning James, first African American woman in the Utah Territory and pioneer member of the LDS Church.
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The faithfulness of women in the LDS Church A look at the numbers suggesting adult women are the most committed demographic in the LDS Church BY KARISSA NEELY
Herald Correspondent
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hough their numbers are slightly smaller than a decade ago, the majority of women across the nation identify
as Christian. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center study, 82% of all women say religion is very important or somewhat important in their life. When the study was completed in 2007,
that number was 87%. For women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those numbers are slightly higher. According to a 2011 Pew Research study of men and women of this faith, 97% say religion is somewhat or very important in their life. Women within the church also have stronger religious commit-
ment compared to women of other faiths, and compared to men within the church. According to the same 2011 Pew study, 73% of women of the Church of Jesus Christ exhibit a high level of religious commitment. Comparatively, just 36% of women nationwide and 65% of males within Please see FAITHFULNESS, Page 12
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FAITHFULNESS
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the LDS faith exhibit this same level of commitment. Research suggests that this same trend exists on a global scale. A 2014 BYU Studies Quarterly study found that total church membership “consisted of 90 males for every 100 females in 2011.” Within the global population, there are 101 males for every 100 females. The study looked at the worldwide gender distribution of the Church of Jesus Christ members and found that while males of record outnumbered females of record through age 19, more females continued their membership after the age of 20. If this theory holds true, then of the church’s total membership of 16,313,735 (as reported by church statisticians in April 2019), approximately 52% or 8,585,917 of them are women. It’s no wonder that many recent discussions, talks and meetings with the church have focused on the influence of women. Even before he became the prophet of the church, President Russell M. Nelson implored the women of the church to lend their strength, voice, wisdom and conviction to the cause of the church. “It would be impossible to measure the influence that such women have, not only on families but also on the Lord’s Church, as wives, mothers, and grandmothers; as sisters and aunts; as teachers and leaders; and especially as exemplars and devout defenders of the faith,” he said in a General Conference session in 2015. He reiterated this appeal in 2018 at a special meeting for the women of the church. “My dear sisters, we need you! We need your strength, your conversion, your conviction, your ability to lead, your wisdom, and your voices. We simply cannot gather Israel without you,” he said then.
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five years divorced. She went to work at Brigham Young Academy where she founded the music department. In 1880 Susa Young Gates Susa married Jacob F. Gates. During Born: March 18, 1856 her life she served a mission with Died: May 27, 1933 her husband to the Sandwich IsSusa Young Gates was a daughter lands. She was a prolific writer and of Brigham Young and Lucy Bigelow founded the Utah Women’s Press Young, Brigham’s 22nd wife. She Club. She wrote columns for the was a good student and musician Deseret News and the Inter Mounamong other talents. At age 13 she tain Republican paper. She founded entered the University of Deseret the Relief Society Magazine in 1915. (now the University of Utah). At Throughout her life she promoted age 16, she married Alma Dunford. women’s rights and women’s sufThey had two children but within frage.
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lowing about her top contributions. Under Spafford’s direction, “Relief Belle Smith Spafford Society sisters united to donate more Born: Oct. 8, 1895 than $500,000 to build the long-deDied: Feb. 2, 1982 sired Relief Society Building in Salt Belle Smith Spafford, was born Lake City, Utah. It was dedicated in Salt Lake City. Throughout her October 3, 1956. In 1970, Relief Soyouth and adult life she was studious cieties stopped raising their own and a hardworker. She taught special funds and were given a budget. This education class at BYU. While she allowed sisters to focus on compaswas there she met and married Earl sionate service and visiting teaching Spafford, March 23, 1921. Belle Spaf- instead of fund-raising. In Septemford’s noted for her hard work and ber 1971 all sisters (18 and older) in endless labor as the general presithe Church became members of the dent of the Relief Society, the longest Relief Society. serving president of the church. She During Belle’s almost three debrought the Relief Society to a new cades as general president, she global recognition as they helped served under the leadership of six with post World War II charitable prophets.” Spafford also served on causes in Europe and elsewhere. the National Council of Women for Her church biography says the fol- more than 45 years.
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serving as executive vice president of Deseret Management Sheri Linn Dew and CEO of Deseret Book. Dew Born: Nov. 21, 1953 served as second counselor Sheri Linn Dew, was born in the Relief Society general in Ulysses, Kansas. She loved presidency, and was the first sports growing up and partic- single woman in the church to ularly basketball. At 5 feet and do so. She is the official biog10 inches she was a contender rapher for President Ezra Taft averaging 23 points a game Benson and President Gordon and 17 rebounds. She gradB. Hinckley. She continues uated from BYU and found to be a popular motivational her niche in publishing. She speaker. Dew is considered started as an assistant editor at an example of the powerful Bookcraft in 1978. She joined women that represent the LDS Deseret Book in 1988 and has Church and its doctrine to the moved her way to the top now world.
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The power of women in the church Women across the globe hope to follow and change the church, their families as they unleash their full influence BY KARISSA NEELY
Herald Correspondent
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in a time of change, and women of the church locally and abroad are benefiting and encouraging this evolution. Though it began in the United States, the church is no longer just an American church. Church statistics reported in 2013 that more of its members reside outside of the United States, reaching 170 countries across the globe. More than half of these numbers are women.
Though the top leadership of the church may not reflect that diversity, it does within congregations of church members on the local level: its branches and wards. Sui Lang Panoke, founder of Rethink International, has experienced this. She is a Native Hawaiian Filipino Chinese Irish American who was born in Hawaii, raised in Salt Lake City, and lived on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. for 13 years. Her ward in D.C. included members from across the country and around the world who lived and worked on Capitol Hill. She said the experience of seeing people from various cultures and backgrounds come together through Christ was very powerful for her. She went from feeling like a minority in Utah, to feeling like part of the majority in D.C. This was transformative. “Our ward was a microcosm of the
world in many ways. It was socially, culturally, internationally and even politically diverse and somehow despite our differences, we became a family and Capitol Hill became our home. We found unity through Christ,” she said. “I can now bring that perspective to the table – I know what a truly inclusive culture and environment feels like. And when you have experienced it, you know what to strive for.” That knowledge also informs her work at Rethink International, a global social enterprise that challenges people to rethink how and what they think through the design and delivery of custom learning products with a purpose. “One has to be willing to intentionally surround themselves with people who look, act, think and live differently than they do in order to broaden their perspective, deepen their understanding and work towards resolving their
own unconscious biases,” she said. “This is how inclusive cultures are created. Strengthening one mind at a time.” Panoke feels the church is doing this on a global scale, but recognizes that – especially for people of color – its progress can feel very slow. Panoke said she has come to understand that the church, because it is a global church and encompasses many cultures, can’t move as fast as some of its members would like it to. Melissa Inouye, an Asian American professor and author who has lived in America, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and recently moved to Utah from New Zealand, agrees. To illustrate, she cited “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” Today, some Americans see that as a very conservative document. But for many heavily patriarchal cultures across the
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globe, that is a revolutionary document because it speaks of men and women being equal partners within the family. “The leaders of the church are between a rock and a hard place. In places where women are judges and politicians and doctors, if you don’t do things fast enough, you look sexist and reactionary. But in other places where male and female roles are more rigidly separated, if you do it too fast, then you look immoral and Westernized,” she said. This is why the doctrine of the church stays the same across the world, but cultural norms on the local level are important and differ. From members’ perspectives, Christ’s message of good news is for everyone, but in every place and time people have to interpret it within their own cultural context. In every ward Inouye has worshiped in, there were similarities and differences. For example, while Utah culture dictates white shirts, ties and dark pants and shoes as the church attire for male members, in New Zealand it was perfectly acceptable to wear dress shirts with lava lavas and flip flops. Within those wards, as well, when a baby was being blessed in church, the mother could hold the baby while the male priesthood holders administered the blessing. That does not happen often in Utah. And while a 2011 Pew Research study found
that 56% of LDS women and 59% of LDS men in America said the “more satisfying kind of marriage is one in which the husband provides for the family and the wife takes care of the house and children,” this is not the norm on a global scale. “Abroad, women working is the norm,” Inouye said. Susan Madsen, professor at Utah Valley University and the founding director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, echoed that. She’s seen this as she travels speaking and presenting abroad. “In Denmark, 95% of the women work. That’s just what you do, that’s the culture,” she said. Madsen recalled Elder David A. Bednar, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, saying in 2014: “If the Lord is hastening His work, we cannot keep doing things the same way we have always done them.” Madsen, Inouye and Panoke all feel women can be bolder in their involvement within the church. And leadership within the church encourages this as well. “No matter if I’m at Brigham Young University or abroad, women are hungry — hungry for people to tell them that they really are of worth for their minds, their passions and contributions. Women want to know and feel they are NATALIE BEHRING called to contribute in their community,” Mad- Sui Lang Panoke poses for a portrait at her place of work at sen said. “We need to get women to understand Roseman University on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in South Jordan, Utah. Floorplans and pricing will be released soon.
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that they aren’t supposed to be in a box, and not just get by in this church, but thrive. And thriving may look different than they think.” Women and men need to be equitable partners in this change, and create a sense of belonging for all who join the church, whatever their background or culture. “Every single background, every family structure, everyone belongs here. At the end of the day it is not about the institution. It is about knowing and understanding the Plan of Salvation and the role that Christ’s Atonement plays in that plan. His Atonement is what makes our salvation possible. May Christ always be our focus moving forward,” Panoke said. Madsen also hopes women will follow the admonition of Sheri Dew, author and CEO of Deseret Book, who said in 2013: “I believe that the moment we learn to unleash the full influence of converted, covenant-keeping women, the kingdom of God will change overnight.”
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LDS women of influence A REEL STAR Laraine Day
Born: Oct. 13, 1920 Died: Nov. 10, 2007 Laraine Day, born Laraine Johnson, was active in the LDS church all of her life. Her great-grandfather was Apostle Charles C. Rich. When she was a young girl her family moved to California where she graduated from the Polytechnic High School in Long Beach. She became a well-known actress and made her last name “Day” for the stage. She was an actress of stage,
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PRACTICING SUPREME LAW Christine Durham
Born: Aug. 3, 1945 Christine Durham grew up in Southern California but took her studies to the eastern states. She attended Wellesley, the popular all-women’s college, where she met George Durham. Following their marriage she studied law at Boston College, while her husband finished undergraduate work at Harvard. She eventually graduated from Duke Law School in 1971. She practiced law and was named as a
justice on the Utah Supreme Court in 1982. She served as Chief Justice from 2002 until her retirement in November of 2017. Durham has served on several law boards and associations and her list of awards are impressive. Mary C. McQueen, president of the National Center for State Courts compared Durham’s character and qualities to former U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Durham has honorary degrees from the Univerity of Utah, Utah Valley University, Weber State University, Salt Lake Community College and the College of Central Utah.
movies, radio and television. Some of her leading men included; Ronald Reagan, Joel McCrea, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond, Cary Grant and John Wayne. According to her biography she was known as the “First Lady of Baseball” following her marriage to famous baseball manager Leo Durocher. She took great interest in his career, although they were married only 13 years. In her later life she moved to Ivins, UT to live with her family and died there in 2007.
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SONGS OF PRAISE Gladys Knight
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Gladys Knight sings out to a sell out crowd late Saturday night July 3, 1999 during the Freedom Festival’s Stadium of Fire.
Born: May 28, 1944 Baptist gospel singer Gladys Knight in a convert to the church and was baptist in 1997, following in the footsteps of her son and daughter, according to LDS church information. She is one of the most successful female music artists in the history of American popular music. Known as the “Empress of Soul” Knight sang with her brother Merald Knight and two cousins Edward Pattan and William Guest. The men were known as “The Pips”. Knight’s
two number one singles include “Midnight Train to Georgia,” and “That’s What Friends are For”. She is on the list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 greatest singers of all time. On June 1, 2018, Knight, a seven time Grammy Award winner, and her Saints Unified Voices choir brought lively gospel music to the Salt Lake City LDS Conference Center during the 40th anniversary celebration on the revelation on the priesthood. She married William McDowell in 2001 and they reside in North Carolina. At last count, they have 17 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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Born: Sept. 12, 1906 Died: Dec. 16, 1978 Rose Marie Reid, was born in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Her family moved to Idaho in 1916. She was an accomplished seamstress and designed swim suits. Over the years her swimsuit lines were some of the most worn through the world. She believed that every woman should feel glamorous in a swimsuit. She designed many popular styles including the swim dress. Between 1952 and 1959 her company went from producing 1,000 swimsuits a day to 10,000 suits a day. She had offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York City, London, Amsterdam and Paris. According to BYU Magazine she was the first woman in the U.S. to fly 500,000 miles. Always an active missionary for the church, Reid had many Jewish friends and developed a les-
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Rose Marie Reid son plan explain the LDS Church doctrine to Jewish investigators. The church asked Reid to redesign the temple garment. It was Reid’s two-piece garment design that continues to be used today. In her later years she move to Provo to live with family.
Born: Feb. 7, 1872 Died: Dec. 5, 1959 Amy Brown Lyman, was born in Pleasant Grove. In her autobiography “In Retrospect” Lyman said during her childhood she lived around many of the original pioneers including members of the Mormon Battalion and Zion’s Camp. Her church biography says, “While attending Brigham Young Academy, she met Richard R. Lyman. Intellectual and spiritual equals, the two fell in love and married on Sept. 9, 1896, in the Salt Lake Temple. They had two children. Amy led the Relief Society’s Social Welfare Department for 15 years and functioned as an officer in the Relief Society for 32 years. She served a term as a member of the Utah House of Representatives as well.” She was called as the eighth general president of the Relief Society three months after the start of World War II in 1940 and served until 1945. Richard, who had become an apostle was excommunicated from the
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A photograph of Amy Brown Lyman is displayed in her autobiography “In Retrospect” on Monday, Sept. 16, at the Daily Herald in Provo.
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