Comments: Saturday, March 19, 2005
LDS Church News
Van Craig Gessel, 54; Oregon Portland Mission; Northridge 3rd Ward, Orem Utah Northridge Stake; regional welfare agent and institute instructor; former stake president, high councilor, bishop and missionary in the Japan Okinawa Mission. Professor of Japanese and dean of the College of Humanities at BYU. Born in Compton, Calif., to Easton Mathews and Harrietta Robinson Gessel. Married Elizabeth Darley, three children.
A ward organist and institute instructor, Sister Gessel is a former stake and ward Relief Society president, and Relief Society teacher. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Roy M and Kathleen Latham Darley. |