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Title

Northern States Mission

Abrams, Milton Charles

1918 November 22 – 1998 July 16

Adams, Alfred Reed

1915 March 4 – 2005 June 28

Ahlander, Joseph Frederick

1917 November 23 – 1992 May 4

Albrecht, Willy

1917 September 1 – 1994 January 19

Aldrich, Frederick Thomas

1920 July 8 – 1994 October 26

Allen, Lewis

1920 February 3 – 1954 October 24

Alley, Gerald Irwin

1918 June 26 – 1999 April 3

Anderson, Elwin Harry

1914 November 28 – 2009 August 3

Anderson, Merrill Reynolds

1916 April 23 – 2012 April 23

Anderson, Royal Davis

1915 September 25 – 1998 January 17

Anderson, Wayne Laron

1920 February 13 – 1993 March 22

Archibald, Blair Watson

1919 August 28 – 2008 November 26

Archibald, Leroy Alder

1920 February 26 – 1991 April 9

Asay, Royal E

1919 November 22 – 2009 November 10

Bagley, Lynn Gar

1918 November 10 – 2012 May 4

Bagwell, Otho Edgar

1918 October 23 – 1988 February 18

Balli, Frederick Karl

1917 April 11 – 2001 November 9

Balls, Maurice Horsley

1919 April 21 – 1998 January 30

Ballstaedt, Daniel Carl

1909 February 1 – 2008 November 10

Bangerter, Arnold

1918 January 6 – 2011 March 20

Barlow, David McKay, Sr.

1919 May 13 – 2002 March 4

Bartlett, Harold Lewis

1915 March 9 – 2012 November 12

Bassett, Lewis Thomas

1917 July 3 – 2003 October 12

Biesinger, Thomas Kropf

1877 August 26 – 1954 January 17

Bitter, Charles Eldon

1918 May 25 – 2009 September 23