Educator, News columnist, KSL 'Greenhouse Show' host Larry Sagers dies at 63

Bishop Barton said Sagers was the kind of person who always put others first. Whenever he would ask Sagers how he was doing and how the cancer treatments were going, Sagers wanted to talk about the families he was assigned to visit and teach.

"He was a pretty amazing person," the bishop said. "It says something about somebody who, when they have a condition like this — some people give up or totally change what they're doing — Larry didn't have to do that. He was doing what he would do whether it was his last day or whether he had 20 years left — teaching, educating people and spending time with family."

Everyone who is interviewed about Sagers has to pause at times for the emotions that overcome them. It was noted more than once that Sagers fought his hardest to beat cancer and that his death does not mean an end to all that he has done.

"Great musicians leave us with their music and great artists leave us with their artwork," Hughes said. "As long as the trees on Temple Square are growing and blooming and the flowers are growing and blooming and the pests are under control, then Larry Sagers' legacy lives on in Utah."

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