Please extend our sympathy to the family of Elder Scott, to the other members of the First Presidency, to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and to the other General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Scott was hospitalized in April with gastrointestinal bleeding.
After a career as a nuclear engineer, he was chosen for the quorum in 1988. Prior to his ordination as an apostle, he served as a member of the church’s First Quorum of the Seventy, having been called to that quorum in 1977.
He is the third top Mormon leader to die recently.
Elder L. Tom Perry died in May at the age of 92 and Elder Boyd K. Packer died in July at the age of 90. He was well known to many members of the Church for the love he expressed for his wife.
Utah Govenor Gary Herbert called Scott a kind and generous leader. His unwavering faith and pursuit of lifelong learning was an example to each one of us.
“Elder Scott was able, very successfully, to keep his eye on eternity”, Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in the news release.
“He was a true Christian gentleman who had profound influence on members of your church as well as on the wider world community”.
Scott was born November 7, 1928, in Pocatello, Idaho. Mr Scott graduated from George Washington University with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Throughout his life, he suffered intense personal losses. She was the daughter of United States senator Arthur Watkins. Two of his seven children died when they were young, and his wife Jeanene died of cancer in 1995. Mr Scott never remarried.
Scott died at 1:45 p.m. with his family around him, according to the press release.
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“Elder Scott has always been a real favorite”, Elder Seiter said. He was fluent in Spanish, and pre-taped his church conference speeches in Spanish so Mormons in Latin America could hear his addresses directly from him rather than a translator, Michael W. Scott said.
