MormonTimes.com: U. football to feel a void

By Aaron Shill

Deseret News

Published: Wednesday, Dec. 3 2008 12:49 a.m. MST

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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