Obituary

SALT LAKE CITY — The wife of the president of the Mormon church has died.

Frances B. Monson, 85, died early Friday morning at a hospital in Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced.

SALT LAKE CITY – C.R. England CEO Wayne A. Cederholm II died Tuesday from complications of a bone marrow transplant.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Elder Eldred G. Smith, the oldest Mormon church general authority and oldest known Utahn, has died at the age of 106.

NEW YORK — Jack Curran spent more than five decades compiling among the best records in high school basketball and baseball.

When former players, opponents and those close to high school sports spoke of him upon learning of his death Thursday at 82, wins and titles didn’t matter. They all spoke of the coach who spent the last half century helping players — and not just those at his school — get scholarships to college.

OGDEN — The community is mourning the death of a cowboy legend.

LOS ANGELES — Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers’ playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships from the ‘80s Showtime dynasty to the Kobe Bryant era, died Monday, his assistant said.

Buss died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant. He was 80.