Published: Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006
The First Presidency has announced five new visitor center directors.
The new leaders and their wives will begin service in January 2007.
Carol and John Linebaugh
John Wesley Linebaugh, 68, San Diego
(Calif.) Mormon Battalion Historic Site; Manila 1st Ward, Pleasant Grove
Utah Manila Stake; former missionary at the San Diego Mormon Battalion
Historic Site, Church service missionary, bishop, branch president, ward
Young Men president and high councilor. Retired administrative laboratory
director at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Born in Pleasant Grove,
Utah, to Burleigh Carleton and Reva Jense Linebaugh. Married
Carol Lurlene Black, five children.
Sister Linebaugh is a former missionary at the San Diego Mormon
Battalion Historic Site, Church service missionary, stake and ward Relief
Society president, ward Sunday School teacher and teacher improvement
coordinator. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Karl George and Lurlene
Richardson Black.
Lee and LeeAnn Longson
Lee Squire Longson, 66, Mormon
Handcart Historic Site, Martin's Cove, Wyo.; McCall Ward, Weiser Idaho
Stake; former missionary at the Mormon Handcart Historic Site, bishop, high
councilor, high priests group leader and missionary in the England Mission.
Retired president and owner of Petterson Associates. Born in Salt Lake
City, Utah, to John Wilford and Emma Squire Longson. Married
LeeAnn Eliason, four children.
Sister Longson is a former missionary at the Mormon Handcart Historic
Site, stake Young Women president, stake Primary president, ward Relief
Society president and Young Women adviser. Born in Washington, D.C., to
Verne Huntington and Margaret Jacobs Eliason.
Linda and Gary McKinnon
Gary Francis McKinnon, 66, Joseph
Smith Birthplace Memorial, Sharon, Vt.; American Fork 14th Ward, American
Fork Utah East Stake; former missionary in the Massachusetts Boston
Mission, bishop, district president, high councilor and Primary teacher.
Retired professor at Brigham Young University. Born in Salt Lake City,
Utah, to Francis Edwin and Emma Louise Merrill McKinnon. Married
Linda Rose Kempton, six children.
Sister McKinnon is a former missionary in the Massachusetts Boston
Mission, stake Relief Society president and counselor, ward Primary
president, counselor and teacher, and counselor in a stake Young Women
presidency. Born in Payson, Utah, to Elme Joseph and Caroline Moore
Kempton.
John and Mary Ann Nelson
John Christian Nelson, 66, St. George
Utah Temple Visitors Center; Parleys 3rd Ward, Salt Lake Parleys Stake;
patriarch; former counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high priests
group leader, Scoutmaster and missionary in the Northern California
Mission. Retired ophthalmologist. Born in Denver, Colo., to George Elroy
and Alice Taylor Nelson. Married
Mary Ann
Baxter, 11 children.
A ward Young Women adviser, Sister Nelson is a former ward Relief
Society counselor and teacher, stake Young Women president and gospel
doctrine teacher. Born in Murray, Utah, to Golden S. and Helen Myers
Baxter.
Catherine and Robert Pedersen
Robert George Pedersen, 69, Oakland
California Temple Visitors Center; Cottonwood 2nd Ward, Salt Lake Big
Cottonwood Stake; former member of the Melchizedek Priesthood MIA General
Board, high councilor, bishop and counselor, elders quorum president and
missionary in the Australia Mission. Chairman of the board of Del Sol and
former senior vice president of Franklin Quest. Born in Logan, Utah, to
George P. and Wanda P. Pedersen. Married
Catherine
Barton, eight children.
Sister Pedersen is a former ward Relief Society president and counselor,
stake and ward Young Women president and counselor and Sunday School
teacher. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Ray Hunter and Helen Grant
Barton.
