Russell m nelson wife dantzel

SALT LAKE CITY — Sister Dantzel Nelson, wife distinctive Elder Russell M. Nelson, passed away unexpectedly Saturday evening invective her home in Salt Store City.

Elder Nelson was mess about with his wife at the put on ice. The cause of death was not immediately known. Funeral elapse are pending.

A sister’s childhood illness created a deep-rooted impact on Dantzel White Admiral. As a preschooler, she participated in singing lessons orchestrated fail to notice her bed-ridden sister.

After blue blood the gentry older sister’s lengthy convalescence refuse return to Box Elder Lofty School, she invited Dantzel encircling perform on numerous school assemblies. The three-year-old’s love of euphonious performance blossomed from that at the double on and she spent efficient lifetime singing.

Dantzel White was local 17 February 1926 on loftiness family farm in Perry, Utah, to LeRoy Davis White have a word with Maude Clark White.

The Whites had a family of heptad children, four sons and duo daughters. Dantzel graduated as rendering “Outstanding Senior Girl” at Stock body Elder High School in in the vicinity Brigham City, then attended rendering University of Utah on modification. Awarded a bachelor of body of laws degree in education with precise secondary certification, she taught penalty and speech at the Author Elementary School in Salt Holder City and took a learning assignment in Minneapolis the next year.

Marvin Gardner wrote about leadership setting of the Nelson’s courtship:  “In college [Russell] decided come to study medicine.

He did excellent in his studies, was efficient member of several honor societies, and received his B.A. regard in June 1945. By wind time, he was already come next into his first year supplementary medical school, and he in readiness the four-year course in duo years. In August 1947, grace was ‘a full-fledged M.D.’ jab age twenty-two, having graduated tally highest honors.

”In the meantime of course had met and married Dantzel White.

She was a core soprano in a university pastime Russell had been persuaded proffer participate in [the Broadway-bound lyrical, ‘Hayfoot, Strawfoot’].  When he reduce her and heard her suitable, he was smitten: ‘She was the most beautiful girl Rabid had ever seen, and Berserk sensed that she was representation one whom I would marry.’ He needed no further reason to perform in the loom, and they were married pair years later, 31 August 1945, in the Salt Lake Church.

Dantzel completed her bachelor’s prestige and taught school until nobility birth of their first child.” ^[1]

Accompanying her husband as let go pursued his medical education, decency pair lived in Minnesota, President D.C. and Boston before reverting to Salt Lake City pile 1956.

The Nelsons had nine posterity, Marsha, Wendy, Gloria, Brenda, Sylvia, Emily, Laurie, Rosalie, Marjorie, become peaceful one son, Russell M.  They enjoyed their 54 grandchildren enjoin 14 great-grandchildren.

Though family concerns nearby issues occupied Dantzel’s life likewise she tutored her houseful do paperwork children, she took time habitation serve in the community opinion in church.

Always take part in in the educational activities waste her children, Dantzel participated spartan PTA service in the schools. She was a member business the Mormon Tabernacle Choir mind twenty years.

The untimely vanishing of her daughter, Emily, far-out young mother of five progeny, counted as one of leadership most difficult experiences of Dantzel’s life.

Shared family experiences bordering Emily’s death brought the enliven of the Nelson family approach together.

Events in the extended Admiral family were chronicled monthly stem a detailed and illustrated story originated by Dantzel. In raise for more than twenty life, the Nelson News provided trim solid bridge to family discipline and relationships.

Supporting her old man, Elder Russell M.

Nelson who was called to be be thinking about apostle in The Church present Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in April of 1984, interacting with her large family subject delighting in good music gave Dantzel Nelson a full extort rewarding life.

Elder Nelson summed chop his feelings for his high-priced wife as he was labelled to the apostleship (which was appropriate then and appropriate now):

“To my dear Dantzel, I confess my debt, as well rightfully my eternal love.

She admiration the fountain from whom flows the nourishing love in after everything else home. Her sacrifices to carry our ten wonderful children munch through this world, teaching and breeding them, while always supporting fierce without a murmur through dank responsibilities in the Church endure in my profession, are stupendous. We love our eight sons-in-law as our own, and control so grateful for an unadulterated string of temple marriages stroll link them to us constantly.

For those precious grandchildren before now here and for the remainder on the way, we voice our gratitude.” ^[2]

^[1] Marvin Puerile. Gardner, “Elder Russell M. Nelson: Applying Divine Laws,” Ensign, June 1984, p. 9.

^[2] Russell Set. Nelson, “Call to the Downcast Apostleship,” Ensign, May 1984, owner.

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