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F. Nephi Grigg, who served as a mission president in Scotland from 1969-1972, died Jan. 6 at age 81 in Salt Lake City. He also served as a bishop and high councilor, and received the Silver Beaver and the Silver Antelope awards for his efforts in the Boy Scouts of America. He and his brother, Golden, co-founded Ore-Ida Foods, and invented the Tater-Tot.
- Rowena Jacobson Miller, 86, died Jan. 7, in Salt Lake City. She was personal secretary to President J. Reuben Clark Jr. of the First Presidency from 1937-1961, and was executive secretary to Nauvoo Restoration Inc. from 1962-1982. She supervised publication of a number of President Clark's books, including On the Way to Immortality and Eternal Life, Our Lord of the Gospels, and Why the King James Version.She starred in, directed and participated in other ways in Utah Opera Theater productions, touring and Church theater groups in New York and Utah, and was in the Church's motion picture "Windows of Heaven," a story about tithing and President Lorenzo Snow's visit to St. George, Utah.
