Mildred Dean Calderwood McKay, former member of the LDS Church's General Primary Board and the mother-in-law of Sen. Robert F. Bennett, R-Utah, died Dec. 25, 1994, in Salt Lake City. She was 92.
She served on the Primary Board for 12 years, was on the editorial board of the "Children's Friend," the board of trustees for the Primary Children's Hospital and a member of the Church's Curriculum Writing Committee.Mrs. McKay served with her husband, the late David Lawrence McKay, when he presided over the Eastern States Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York City during the early 1970s.
She has also been an area supervisor for the American Society Fund drive and co-chairwoman for the women's fund-raising committee for the University of Utah Medical Center. Mrs. McKay was a volunteer information officer for the Metropolitan Hall of Justice and was a member of the Women's State Legislative Council. She had also worked for the National Republican Committee in Washington and was president of the Salt Lake Women's Republican Club and also the Utah Federation of Women's Republican Club.
Mrs. McKay graduated from LDS High School and the University of Utah. She taught junior high and high school in both Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C.
Funeral services will be Thursday, Dec. 29, at noon at the Salt Lake LDS Stake Center, 142 W. 200 North. Friends may call Wednesday, Dec. 28, from 6-8 p.m. at Larkin Mortuary, 260 E. South Temple, and Thursday from 10:45-11:45 a.m., prior to funeral services. Interment will be in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.