John S. (Jack) Dawson, 74, producer of the Hill Cumorah Pageant for eight years, died Aug. 3, in Kelowna, British Columbia.
A professional actor who, for 30 years, was director and producer for CBS television in New York. He was prominent in southern Nevada theatrical and musical activities. He served as an ordinance worker in the Las Vegas Nevada Temple.Roy W. Doxey, 84, staff member to the Council of the Twelve for nine years, former director of Church Correlation Review, and a professor of religion and dean of religious instruction at BYU for 26 years, died Aug. 10, at his home in Salt Lake City.
He presided over the Eastern States Mission from 1944-1948, during which time he reinstituted the Hill Cumorah Pageant.
He was a member of the YMMIA general board, stake president and regional representative. He was a counselor in the London Temple presidency while serving a mission. He published 12 books, including five pertaining to the Doctrine and Covenants.
Evan D. Porter Jr., 44, president of the Orlando Florida Stake, chairman of the Orlando Florida Temple groundbreaking committee and former vice chairman of the Orlando temple committee, died July 27 in an Orlando area hospital.
Pres. Porter was instrumental in obtaining the necessary permits for the construction of the temple, said Elder Alvie R. Evans, regional representative and temple committee vice chairman. Groundbreaking for the temple was held June 20, 1992.
Walter Stover, 93, who helped in the rebuilding and reorganizing of branches of the Church in Europe after World War II, died Aug. 7 at his home in Salt Lake City. Although he left Germany in 1923 and settled in Salt Lake City, he devoted much of his life and income to helping improve conditions of people in Germany and other European nations.
He was president of the East German Mission from 1946-1951. He assisted Elder Ezra Taft Benson, then a member of the Council of the Twelve, in distributing relief supplies to needy members in Europe. Using his own funds, he hired a train to travel around Europe, taking Church members to a central place so leaders could learn who had survived the war.
He was a member of the Church Welfare Committee nearly 20 years, and served on the Church's finance and building committees, and helped construct buildings in many areas of Europe and Scandinavia. In 1986, BYU awarded him the Presidential Citation and Medallion for "quietly and unceremoniously sharing all that he has with thousands . . . in his lifetime of generosity."
