- Sadie Grant Pack
Sadie Grant Pack (
December 20 ,1877 –August 24 ,1960 ) was the first counselor toMay Anderson in the general presidency of the Primary ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1925 to 1929.Sadie Grant was born in West Bountiful,
Utah to Joseph Hyrum Grant and Evaletta Eldredge. She was educated at theUniversity of Utah , were she met her future husband,Frederick J. Pack , who was also a native of West Bountiful. Grant and Pack married in November 1896 and later that year began service as an LDS Church missionaries in theColorado Mission of the church.Pack held a variety of callings in the
Relief Society , theYoung Women's Mutual Improvement Association and the Primary prior to her call as first counselor in the general presidency of the Primary. In 1925, whenMay Anderson was called as the general president of the Primary, she selected Pack as her first counselor. Pack was released in 1929 and was succeeded by Isabelle S. Ross.Pack and her husband were the parents of four children. Pack died in
Salt Lake City, Utah .Saide Grant Pack was a granddaughter of prominent church leader
Jedediah M. Grant and was a niece to LDS Church presidentHeber J. Grant .References
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Andrew Jenson , [http://search.ldslibrary.com/article/view/2787439?q= "Pack, Sadie Grant"] , "LDS Biographical Encyclopedia", vol. 4
*"Children's Friend", vol. 25, p. 23
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