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Show ' ' . i i I A LEON WALKER Sustained in Presidency Leon R. Walker Named to Timp Stake Presidency Leon R. Walker, Lindon a church and civic leader, was sustained as Second Counselor in the Timpanogos Stake presidency pres-idency at the Quarterly Conference Confer-ence last Sunday. He succeeds President Ertmann H. Christensen, Chris-tensen, who is making a home in Murray, and was released. President Walker was born in Lindon, a son of Lawrence R. and Dahlia Radmall Walker He attended the Lindon schools, graduated from Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School and Seminary and attended the University Un-iversity of Nevada. Vocationally Vocation-ally he is an electrician at Geneva Steel and has served for two years in the Utah National Na-tional Guard. Always active in civic affairs President Walker has served 4 years as a Lindon City councilman. council-man. For the LDS Church he fulfilled ful-filled a full term mission to - Argentina. He served as bish op's counselor for five years and as Lindon Ward bishop for 8 years. He has been a Timpanogos Tim-panogos Stake High Councilman Council-man for 3 years. He married the former Zeona Mecham of Orem and they are the parents of 9 children, Terry, Ter-ry, a senior at BYU; Lynn, an LDS missionary in Argentina; Kristeen, a freshman at BYU; Kolleen and Kevin, students at Pleasant Grove High School, Karleen in the junior high and Klark, Kent and Karl, are students stu-dents at the Lindon elementary school. |