- Bonnie D. Parkin
Bonnie Dansie Parkin (born
August 4 ,1940 ) was the fourteenth general president of theRelief Society ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2002 to 2007. Parkin was also a member of the general presidency of the church'sYoung Women organization from 1994 to 1997.Bonnie Dansie was raised in a
Latter-day Saint home inHerriman, Utah . She graduated fromUtah State University in 1962. OnJuly 1 ,1963 , she married James L. Parkin in theSalt Lake Temple .Parkin was the second counselor to
Janette C. Hales in the LDS Church'sYoung Women Organization beginning in 1994. In 1997, her service in this position ended when she chose to accompany her husband toLondon ,England , where he had been asked to be the president of the England London South Mission of the church.At the April 2002 general conference of the church, Parkin was made the general president of the
Relief Society , succeedingMary Ellen W. Smoot , who had been president since 1997. Parkin held this leadership position untilMarch 31 ,2007 , when she was released and replaced withJulie B. Beck .Parkin and her husband are the parents of four sons. One of their daughters-in-law is the daughter of LDS general authority and billionaire philanthropist
Jon M. Huntsman , the granddaughter of deceased LDS apostleDavid B. Haight , and sister ofUtah governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. andHuntsman Corp. CEO Peter Huntsman .ee also
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Patricia P. Pinegar : another counselor to Hales
*Virginia H. Pearce : another counselor to HalesReferences
* [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=87668c6a47e0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Bonnie D. Parkin: Relief Society General President,”] "Ensign", May 2002, 107
* [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=246f3ff73058b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Newly Called Sisters Love Youth and the Gospel of Jesus Christ,”] "Ensign", Nov. 1994, 106–107.
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