Emma Ray Riggs McKay was a humanitarian, music patron, and the wife of David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1951 to 1970, with whom she traveled the world engaged in charitable and religious work.
Known as Ray throughout her life, McKay was born Emma Ray Riggs in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. She attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music to study piano performance. After returning to Utah, she was one of six students to be awarded degrees from the University of Utah in 1898 where she had attended the Department of Music. Both her parents, Emma Louise Robbins and Obadiah H. Riggs, taught at the University.
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