Earl M. Monson

Earl Merrill Monson was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1998 to 2002. He was a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.

Monson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Charles H. Monson and his wife, Ortencia H. Merrill. He was raised in that city, where he learned to play the violin and was in multiple orchestras conducted by Frank W. Asper. Monson attended the University of Utah, where he met his wife, Donna Mae Hill. After their marriage in the Salt Lake Temple in 1954, Monson joined the United States Army. He later earned a bachelors degree from Iowa State University.

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