He was 70 years of age.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
He was called on 6 April 1968 as one of only seven members of the First Council of the Seventy. Members of the Seventy are senior leaders in the Church who serve as executive directors of Church departments and they provide ecclesiastical supervision and training for leaders of congregations. I know He lives. I know He lives, and I know that He is the Father of all of us. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and our Redeemer and that He has purchased us by the shedding of His blood and by the anguish which He suffered in Gethsemane.