page_title: May Anderson
section_title: Involvement with the Primary Association
hierarchical_section_title: May Anderson / Involvement with the Primary Association
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of May Anderson and Louie B. Felt, Mormon leaders at the turn of the 20th century.
context_page_description: May Anderson was the second general president of the children's Primary organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1925 and 1939. Anderson also served as the first counselor to general Primary president Louie B. Felt from 1905 to 1925.
context_section_description: On October 5, 1890, Louie B. Felt, the general president of the Primary Association, asked Anderson to become a member of the general board of the organization. For the next forty-nine years, Anderson would work in some capacity in the Primary organization of the LDS Church. She was the general board's secretary for fifteen years (1890–1905), Felt's first counselor in the general presidency for twenty years (1905–25), and general president of the organization for fourteen years (1925–39). Anderson was also the first editor-in-chief of The Children's Friend, the church's official magazine for children.
  During her tenure in the presidency of the Primary, Anderson initiated the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, which is today part of Intermountain Healthcare. Anderson also helped establish kindergartens in Utah. Anderson's successor to the Primary general presidency was May Green Hinckley.
  Anderson did not marry and died at Salt Lake City of arteriosclerosis. She was buried at Salt Lake City.
caption: Louie Felt (right)
   and May Anderson (left)