As the son of a career Royal Air Force officer in the United Kingdom, Patrick Kearon was already well-traveled by the time he was introduced to the LDS Church in his young adulthood, having established a career as a business executive.Elder Kearon, sustained on April 3 during general conference as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, is the youngest of five children. When he was 7, the family moved to Saudi Arabia, where he attended school for a few years before going to boarding school in England.
When he was 19, tragedy struck. His father and his sister's husband were killed in an auto accident.
In the aftermath, Elder Kearon ended his educational aspirations and began what became a successful career, working first for a member of Parliament. A series of positions first with the Nestle food company took him to the Middle East, where he worked four years in Saudi Arabia, then to England and eventually to the United States.
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