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29 april 1942 3 lds 11 april 1881 bust photo of edna harker thomas brigham university young university university of california , berkeley american washington , d.c. , united states second counselor in the general presidency of the primary 40.777 cemetery -111.858 type : landmark inline salt lake city elbert d. thomas edna harker thomas.jpg edna harker thomas salt lake city cemetery 1929 isabelle s. ross taylorsville , utah territory , united states benjamin e. harker harriet bennion edith h. lambert 1933 edna harker thomas
 edna harker may anderson
edna harker thomas

edna harker thomas -lrb- april 11 , 1881 -- april 29 , 1942 -rrb- was a leader in the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints -lrb- lds church -rrb- .
she was the first wife of elbert d. thomas , a united states senator from utah .
edna harker was born in taylorsville , utah territory to benjamin e. harker and harriet bennion .
she attended brigham young university , the university of california , berkeley , and american university .
she was a teacher in the public schools of salt lake city .
in 1904 , she became a member of the general board of the primary association of the lds church .
in 1907 , she married elbert d. thomas in the salt lake temple .
shortly after their marriage , elbert and edna thomas were sent by the lds church to japan as full-time missionaries .
they were missionaries in japan until 1912 ; during part of this time , elbert thomas was the president of the japanese mission .
edna thomas continued as a member of the primary association 's general board and in 1929 she succeeded isabelle s. ross as the second counselor to may anderson in the primary 's general presidency .
she served in this capacity until 1933 , when she was released as a counselor and as a member of the primary association 's general board to allow her to move to washington , d.c. with her husband , who had defeated reed smoot in the 1932 election to be the united states senator for utah .
edna thomas died in 1942 in washington , d.c. .
she was the mother of three children .
she was buried at salt lake city cemetery .
