Obituary

Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered in Salt Lake City to honor her life and legacy after she died of brain cancer in March at age 49. Love was the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress.

Love, whose political career included serving Saratoga Springs and Utah’s 4th Congressional District, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a highly aggressive brain cancer, in 2022.

Nearly 44 years after Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.

Sibling Merrill Osmond posted on his Facebook page that Wayne died this week at a Salt Lake City hospital after suffering a “massive stroke.” Wayne Osmond was the second oldest of nine children raised in Ogden.

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.