Anna Boss Hart taught drama, English and teacher-training in the public schools and at Brigham Young University. Learning was a passion for her. A stalwart record-keeper, she preserved her life in diaries, files, photographs and notebooks. Widowed early, she traveled extensively with her mother and her son. She served two LDS missions, one to the Swiss Temple after her husband died. She served on the Relief Society General Board. She was born Nov. 27, 1902, in Malad, Idaho, and died Jan. 4, 1980, in Provo.
Amy Brown Lyman was born in Pleasant Grove on Feb. 7, 1872, and died in Salt Lake City on Dec. 5, 1959. She was the eighth General Relief Society president, serving from 1940-45. She also directed the Relief Society's social services department and served in various welfare agencies through both World Wars and the Great Depression. An author and a teacher, she collected historical documents and kept minutes for the Relief Society. She served in the Utah Legislature from 1923-1924.
Stella Harris Oaks was born in Provo on July 27, 1906, and died in Salt Lake City on Jan. 8, 1980. She served two terms on the Provo City Council and was acting mayor for a short time. She was often referred to as "Provo City's Mother." She founded the Family Life Conference at BYU and headed up the Provo School District Adult Education program for 24 years. She raised three children as a young widow, including Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church.
Alice Louise Reynolds was the first woman to be named a full professor at Brigham Young University. She is credited with starting what is now the Harold B. Lee Library, and her students organized the Alice Louise Reynolds Reading Club in her name, of which there are 16 active chapters in the United States today. She was a member of the Relief Society General Board and editor of the Relief Society Magazine. She was born in Salt Lake City on April 1, 1873, and died in Provo on Dec. 5, 1938.
Minerva Bernetta Kohlhepp Teichert was born in North Ogden on Aug. 28, 1888, and died in Provo on May 3, 1976. She was a gifted painter who produced paintings that are on exhibit across the world in LDS temples, museums, private collections and universities. She always made it clear that she felt her talent was a "gift from God" and a commission to help others understand his word through paintings of scriptural stories.