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Mormons in mourning; Across country, faithful recall church leader.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)
Washington Times, The, February, 2008
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Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Burke Olsen wasn't sure anyone would be up at 11 p.m. when he drove up to Southern Virginia University campus in the small Shenandoah Valley town of Buena Vista.
His job was to post the news of the passing of Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who had died two hours earlier. The changing of the guard is a rare event in the LDS church; the last time its leader had died was in March 1995.
To his surprise, Mr. Burke found students at the overwhelmingly Mormon campus clustered in the ...
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