ONG LGA OA O G RGLOORLO GPO Gp O gt eA Gt tg COLL AGI re OAR AGA: Se A Bihar ha 2 Pres.— 85 ler to Note Bill a I y Abroad — ‘authioiah more than 5,000 salhee “frov home, President David O. McKay of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. won't be able to avoid a birthday celebration aay ‘|He will be 85—and in. England. _ At Newchapel, some 26 miles south of London, resident McKay Monday will conduct the second day sessions of dedicatory. services. for the church’s new London Temple. : oe ~ IN DICATIONS ARE, however, that some kind of observ: ance of the natal day is being planned after ‘the solemn occasion of the day’ s two temple dedicatory services. It will be the first time in many years—possibly. the first time since President ‘McKay’ sa round-the-world cruise in 1921 —that he and Mrs. McKay have been separated on his birthoe advice beday. She has remtined- home u pon her cause of a recent. throat infecti on. His preneeee oe: on his birthday with a temple ‘dedicaee os ;tion is symbolic: of his time as president. of the millionand-a-half-member LDS Church. No other president of the church has didicated as many temples as has President McKay: four (Swiss, New. : “We Los ee and was” sustained: presi- dent of the church 1951, succeeding bert Smith, April 4. who April 9, George AL had died Prior to that time, Pres. ,, McKay had served as second, — counselor in the LDS Fir Presidency since October 1934, ‘ He was appointed to thes #| church’s Council f=. Apostles in f. age OF O28... eS A . native of Twelve ee 1906, at the of Huntsville, fi Weber County, President Mca'Kay was born Sept. 8, 1873, f|to David and Jennette Evans m McKay. WHILE ATTENDING the Pres. David 0. McKay . . Birthday—an ocean away. University of Utah, he rented a room from Mrs. Emma Robbins Riggs — and fell in love with her daughter, Emma Ray. That was in the fall of 1894 and theirs has been a 64-year courtship, including 57 years of marriage. They were mar-_ ried Jan. 21, 1901, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Before their marriage, however, President McKay served as an Britain LDS. from missionary 1897 to in 1899, in- cluding a year and a half as president of the Glasgow Conference in Scotland. RETURNING. HOME, he: became a teacher at Weber Stake Academy (now ‘Weber cCollege) in Ogden and three years later was‘ ‘superintendent of 2-| the academy. He also was named assistant superintendent of Weber LDS Stake Sun- | day Schools, a position he held when he was sustained as an apostle. z As one of the general au‘| thorities of the church, he continued in Sunday School work and was influential in the organization of the modern LDS Sunday School program,,