Florence Smith Jacobsen led the YWMIA (forerunner to the church's Young Women program) from 1961 to 1972. But it was her longtime work in preserving church historic sites and artifacts that on April 21 garnered for her the Junius F. Wells Award presented annually by the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation.
President Thomas S. Monson and President Boyd K. Packer, president of the Quorum of the Twelve, were among those giving accolades to Jacobsen, 97, at a dinner in her honor at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City.
R. Scott Lloyd is a reporter and staff writer for the Deseret News, where he is attached full time to the LDS Church News staff, working in that capacity for the 25-plus years he has been with the newspaper. Prior to that more ..
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