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President Boyd K. Packer 1924–2015 FRONT COVER: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY of DESERET NEWS FRONT COVER: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY In Memoriam President Boyd K. Packer 1924–2015 DESERET NEWS FRONT COVER: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF FRONT COVER: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY A supplement to the Ensign E15G_PackerCoverMemoriamSupplement.indd 3 7/14/15 9:16 AM Born and raised in Brigham City, Utah, Boyd K. Packer grew up in a family that had little money but was “rich in the things most signicant in our lives.” Below: The Brigham City Tabernacle. Right: Accompanied by his wife, President Packer dedicated the Brigham City Utah Temple on September 23, 2012. E15G_PackerCoverMemoriamSupplement.indd 4 7/14/15 9:16 AM DESERET NEWS PHOTOGRAPH BY SCOTT G. WINTERTON, President Boyd K. Packer, who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles since 1970 and as President of the quorum since 2008, passed away on July 3, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Donna Smith Packer, and their 10 children. EL15G_PackerMemoriamSupplemnet(NEW SL).indd 1 7/14/15 3:08 PM “As one of the Twelve Apostles, I bear witness of the DESERET NEWS Lord Jesus Christ. He lives. He is our Redeemer and our Savior. He presides over this Church. He is no stranger to His servants. As we move into the future with quiet condence, His Spirit will be with us.” 1 Above: Elder Packer and his wife, Donna, hold a family home evening with their children in 1970, when he was called to be an Apostle. Pictured from left are Eldon, Gayle, Lawrence, Kathleen, Spencer, Russell, Laurel, David, and Allan. One son, Kenneth, was serving a mission in Australia. PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF PRESIDENT BOYD K. PACKER, EXCEPT AS NOTED; LEFT: FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF FAMILY EXCEPT AS NOTED; LEFT: PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF PRESIDENT BOYD K. PACKER, 2 Ensign EL15G_PackerMemoriamSupplemnet(NEW SL).indd 2 7/14/15 3:08 PM IN MEMORIAM President Boyd K. Packer FAREWELL TO A MASTER TEACHER embers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints lost more than a dedicated leader DESERET NEWS when President Boyd K. Packer, President of the MQuorum of the Twelve Apostles, passed away. They lost a master teacher who taught even the most complex gospel topics with clarity. President Packer dedicated his life to serving his Heavenly Father and to teaching Heavenly Father’s children, beginning with his own family, contin- uing with a career in seminary, and then in his worldwide ministry as a General Authority. He looked to the Savior as his model for teach- ing. In his 1975 book Teach Ye Diligently, he wrote: “Consider, please, that He has declared, ‘What manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am.’ (3 Nephi 27:27.) . “I do not hesitate to admit that I desire to teach as He taught. Though that may be far PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF PRESIDENT BOYD K. PACKER, EXCEPT AS NOTED; LEFT: FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF FAMILY EXCEPT AS NOTED; LEFT: PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF PRESIDENT BOYD K. PACKER, EL15G_PackerMemoriamSupplemnet(NEW SL).indd 3 7/14/15 3:08 PM beyond my capabilities, He is, nevertheless, the ideal. “. It is not untoward for any of us to aspire to be like Him.” 2 ometimes in my growing As a young man, President Packer pledged to God full years I thought we were 3 S and unwavering lifelong loyalty. He lived out that pledge poor. I later learned that that and left a legacy that will be a spiritual landmark for other disciples of Jesus Christ. While the world in general might was not true. We just didn’t have not be aware of all of Boyd K. Packer’s contributions, his any money. We were always rich works are known to the Source of their inspiration. in the things most signicant in Early Years our lives.” Boyd Kenneth Packer was born on September 10, 1924, the 10th of 11 children born to Ira Wight Packer and Emma Jensen Packer. Theirs was a family in which hard work and obedience to gospel principles were simply the way one lived. Ira was a skilled mechanic who owned an auto-repair garage in Brigham City, Utah, about 60 miles (100 km) north of Salt Lake City. Both of Ira’s parents came from farming backgrounds. Emma grew up with a DESERET NEWS BOTTOM LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CHURCH HISTORY LIBRARY; RIGHT: PORTRAIT OF BOYD K. PACKER COURTESY OF PORTRAIT OF BOYD K. PACKER RIGHT: LIBRARY; PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CHURCH HISTORY BOTTOM LEFT: EL15G_PackerMemoriamSupplemnet(NEW SL).indd 4 7/14/15 3:08 PM love of nature and the outdoors that would illness was diagnosed at the time as pneumo- carry over into the life of her son Boyd. His nia, and he seemed to recover with no signif- love of the outdoors, nature, and animals was icant aftere§ects. But the polio would come DESERET NEWS expressed in much of his artwork, particu- to be a challenge later in life. larly his detailed, sensitive carvings of birds. Because of World War II, he was unable His ancestors were pioneers, British on his to serve a mission. In 1943 he joined the father’s side and Scandinavian on his moth- United States Army Air Corps, graduating as a Above: Because of World War II, er’s. The brass door knocker on President pilot in 1944. He was trained to ¨y bombers Boyd wasn’t able to serve a mission but instead joined the Packer’s front door and on the doors of his and spent almost a year stationed in Japan U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943. grandchildren’s homes is modeled after a after the war was over. Because of pain he Top: Posing with his B-24 yoked ox carving he made. For members of su§ered while serving as a pilot, X-rays were bomber crew. After the war, Boyd remained in Japan, where the Packer family, it symbolizes two impor- taken, showing evidence of his earlier polio he helped share the gospel. Top tant things: £rst, their pioneer ancestry and, in the malformed bones of his knees and hip. left: Boyd baptized Chio Sato; second, willingness and faith to take on the (In the last years of his life, the e§ects of that her husband was also baptized that day. These were the rst 4 yoke of the Master (see Matthew 11:29–30). polio left him using a wheelchair.) baptisms in Japan since 1924. “Sometimes in my growing years I thought While in the military, he found ample Opposite page: Elder Packer we were poor,” he once wrote in a short life opportunity to study the gospel, reading the visits with a group of children in Guatemala in 1979. Boyd at age history. “I later learned that that was not true. Book of Mormon several times. He referred three and as a young man. We just didn’t have any money. We were to that book as “the single most powerful always rich in the things most signi£cant in in¨uence in my life.” 6 More than once he told our lives.” 5 the story of gaining his own witness of the BOTTOM LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CHURCH HISTORY LIBRARY; RIGHT: PORTRAIT OF BOYD K. PACKER COURTESY OF PORTRAIT OF BOYD K. PACKER RIGHT: LIBRARY; PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CHURCH HISTORY BOTTOM LEFT: At age £ve, Boyd contracted polio. His truth of the gospel in an isolated bunker one August 2015 5 EL15G_PackerMemoriamSupplemnet(NEW SL).indd 5 7/14/15 3:08 PM Above: Boyd K. Packer (left) as a night on a tiny island in the Paci£c Ocean. Laurel, Russell, Spencer, Gayle, Kathleen, young teacher with his seminary He walked away from that bunker a di§er- Lawrence, and Eldon. class in Brigham City, Utah. Above right: Boyd K. Packer ent man because he knew. What had been a President Packer always credited his and Donna Smith were married belief and a hope had crystalized into cer- wife for the success of their home life. He on July 28, 1947, in the Logan tainty. He knew.7 described her as a dynamic woman who Utah Temple. Opposite page: The Packers with their rst two He also found ways to be a missionary. had “a great and powerful motivating in¨u- children, Allan and Kenneth. Boyd K. Packer was one of those Latter-day ence.” 8 Her in¨uence on him was described Saint servicemen who helped reintroduce well by a longtime friend, Elder A. Theodore the gospel in Japan in the mid-1940s. He was Tuttle (1919–86), of the First Quorum of the instrumental in bringing Tatsui Sato into the Seventy. He and President Packer served Church, a man whose later work in transla- together as teachers and administrators in the tion helped many Japanese members enjoy Church Educational System. the scriptures and temple ceremonies in their In a foreword to one of President Packer’s own language. books, his friend Theodore wrote: “There is one source of inspiration available to Elder Marriage and Family Packer that is not available to anyone else. DESERET NEWS Returning home, Boyd enrolled in Weber That is Donna. She is the one who has College (now Weber State University) in borne their ten children—and borne much Ogden, Utah. There he met Donna Smith, of the responsibility of rearing them, due to whom he married on July 28, 1947, in the his call as ‘special witness.’ She it is who is his Logan Utah Temple. They would become sweetheart, his friend, and his quiet support.” 9 parents of 10 children: Allan, Kenneth, David, President and Sister Packer were PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF SEMINARY 6 Ensign EL15G_PackerMemoriamSupplemnet(NEW SL).indd 6 7/14/15 3:08 PM from Utah State University (1953) and a doctorate from Brigham Young University (1962).
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