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Western States Mission

Adamson, Jesse LaGrand

1916 November 18 – 2001 April 23

Alder, Alfred William

1915 March 11 – 1973 May 11

Alder, Varr Griffeth

1917 July 6 – 1993 August 30

Amacher, Aaron George

1919 October 8 – 1969 December 18

Anderson, Bruce Holmes

1917 August 30 – 1991 November 28

Armstrong, Clyde Hunter

1918 May 25 – 2004 June 17

Balls, Kendall

1914 September 5 – 2011 July 28

Beal, Milton Karl

1918 October 19 – 1991 November 30

Bench, Robert Kirby

1918 January 9 – 1994 July 14

Bigelow, Donna

1918 September 1 – 2011 April 25

Bischoff, James Hornsby

1919 April 22 – 2001 April 1

Bishop, John Abram

1919 March 19 – 1943 July 19

Bone, Richard Wesley

1916 December 23 – 1964 August 22

Bryner, Milton Bryce

1914 January 7 – 2013 March 29

Buttars, Daniel Omer

1916 December 28 – 2007 January 31

Buxton, Alfred Henry

1917 April 14 – 1976 December 15

Chambers, George Ferris

1915 November 20 – 1988 November 19

Cheever, George Albert Smith, Jr.

1919 May 4 – 1997 January 19

Cheney, Paul Willes

1917 November 2 – 2013 July 26

Cherry, Cecil Alloy

1919 January 25 – 1992 May 5

Cluff, Grant Colvin

1919 November 21 – 2006 April 17

Cook, Noel Laker

1918 March 21 – 1993 September 5

Cooley, Grant Wilson

1918 February 28 – 1975 July 12

Cope, James Austin, Jr.

1918 September 10 – 2009 March 21

Cox, Alvord Levi

1914 November 19 – 2011 March 19