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MormonTimes.com: U. football to feel a void
There will be a void in the president's box next season at University of Utah football games.
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, who spent many Saturdays watching his alma mater at Rice-Eccles Stadium, died late Monday at age 91.
"He was a remarkable, kind, thoughtful, warm, compassionate person, and we will genuinely miss him," University of Utah President Michael K. Young said Tuesday.
The university is one of the many places where Elder Wirthlin, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be missed. For Young and his wife, Suzan, Elder Wirthlin "had become a very big part" of their lives.
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sorry...Wirthlin...not Worthlin
I agree | Dec. 3, 2008 at 11:35 p.m.
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