Obituary

Mayne retired from the Senate in 2023 after a cancer diagnosis.

M. Russell Ballard was second-in-line to the church presidency as the second-longest-tenured member of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He died Sunday at age 95.

Breedlove battled Tom Green and Art Arfons on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to set and then break each other’s speed records during the freewheeling 1960s. Breedlove’s final speed record was 606.6 mph in 1965.

Shelly was the tribe’s seventh president and took office in January 2011. He lost in his re-election bid in 2014, but the Navajo Supreme Court extended his term for five more months.

Zah served as the tribal chairman in the 1980s and later was elected as its first president in 1990 after the government was restructured into three branches to prevent power from being concentrated in the chairman's office.

Block's snowmobile landed on top of him Monday while he was on a steep slope in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The Southern California native was pronounced dead at the scene.

The late senator’s funeral brought former and current members of the Senate as well as leaders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Hundreds of people gathered at the state Capitol building to celebrate the life of the disability activist.

Weber State’s Leah Murray said the late senator’s story is a “beautiful rags to riches American dream story.”

Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.

KUER is remembering and highlighting the lives of some of the Utahns who died of COVID-19. Courtney Isaiah Smith was a celebrated and beloved musician in Salt Lake City. His friends and colleagues considered him a “musical genius.”

As 2020 comes to a close, KUER is remembering and highlighting the lives of some of the Utahns who died of COVID-19. Dolores Horta lived around the world and held bible studies wherever she went. She’s remembered for her kindness and the community she created.