1979
Happy Birthday!
March 1979


“Happy Birthday!” Friend, Mar. 1979, 30

Happy Birthday!

President Spencer W. Kimball will celebrate his eighty-fourth birthday on March 28.

Last year he helped the town of Snowflake, Arizona, celebrate its 100th birthday. Everyone took care to make Snowflake shiny and clean. Primary children planted flowers in honor of his visit and made a carpet of flowers for him. Many other children in the area also came to see President Kimball.

He paid tribute to the pioneers and talked about Brigham Young who sent them to Arizona 100 years ago. “As the successor of the man who sent you here, I am proud of you,” he said. “I am pleased to be with you. Little did I think when I was on my milk stool as a boy in Thatcher, Arizona, that I would be here celebrating with you today.”

Happy birthday, President Kimball. We hope you live to be 100, too!

Photos by Ruth Anson Sowby