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President Thomas S. Monson in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 9, 2010. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson gestures to attendees after the Saturday morning session of 185th Annual General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City Saturday, April 4, 2015. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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Following the Sunday morning session President Thomas S. Monson bends down and kisses sister Barbara Ballard's hand as LDS members gather for the 186th annual general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City at the Conference Center Sunday, April 3, 2016. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson walks out after the University of Utah unveiled the newly refurbished Enos A. Wall Mansion and name it The Thomas S. Monson Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The mansion will become home to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. Presidents Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Henry B. Eyring and Ann Dibb attend the event. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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The First Presidency — Presidents Henry B. Eyring, Thomas S. Monson and Dieter F. Uchtdorf — of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attends the final session of the church's 180th Semiannual General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson waves to the congregation after LDS General Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson leaves the afternoon session of the 186th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 2, 2016. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints waves to those in attendance as he leaves the Marriott Center at Brigham Young University in Provo, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Ravell Call, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson points to the congregation after the Sunday morning session of the 178th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Oct. 5, 2008. Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson, in his first general conference as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hugs Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles after a conference session April 5, 2008. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Henry B. Eyring and President Thomas S. Monson sustain current church leaders during the afternoon session of the 186th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 2, 2016. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson exits following the morning session of the 184th Semiannual General Conference Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S Monson shakes hands with members of the Twelve following the 183rd Semiannual General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 inside the Conference Center. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson blows a kiss to someone in the crowd as he and his daughter sister Ann Dibb exit the morning session as LDS members gather for the 186th annual general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City at the Conference Center Sunday, April 3, 2016. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson speaks during the priesthood session of the 180th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Oct. 2, 2010. LDS Church
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President Henry B. Eyring, President Thomas S. Monson and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf attend the afternoon session of the 184th General Conference at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tells a story while speaking at an event honoring former Young Women General Presidents Florence Jacobsen and Ruth Funk at a luncheon in the Relief Society Building in Salt Lake Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson salutes as the University of Utah unveil the newly refurbished Enos A. Wall Mansion and name it The Thomas S. Monson Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The mansion will become home to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. Presidents Dieter F. Uchtdorf and Henry B. Eyring attend the event. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson commemorates his 80th birthday at the LDS Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City on Aug. 22, 2007. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson announces 5 new temples as he speaks in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City during the Sunday morning session of the LDS Church’s 187th Annual General Conference on Sunday, April 2, 2017. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson, and his daughter sister Ann M. Dibb exit the Conference Center in Salt Lake City following the morning session of the LDS Church’s 187th Annual General Conference on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson new president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks to the media at the announcement of the new First Presidency of the LDS church. He chose as 1st counselor Henry B. Eyring and 2nd Counselor Diedet F. Uchtdorf. Photo taken at the LDS Church office building in Salt Lake City, Utah Monday Feb. 4, 2008. August Miller/ Deseret Morning News Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson visits with members after speaking at a sacrament meeting for the Etobicoke and Churchville YSA wards, Mississaugua Ontario Stake, on Sunday, June 26. Sunday, June, 26, 2011. Photo by Gerry Avant Gerry Avant
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President Thomas S. Monson rides in the Days of 47 Parade in Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 24, 2014. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson, center, First Counselor Henry B. Eyring, left, and Second Counselor Dieter F. Uchtdorf comprise the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They speak at a news conference in the LDS Church Office B Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson, center, and his counselors — President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency, left, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City during the morning session of the LDS Church’s 187th Annual General Conference on Saturday, April 1, 2017. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson and Kent F. Richards of the Seventy and director of the church's temple department pause for a moment prior to entering the temple as they rededicate the Ogden temple Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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Elders Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson, then members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, are shown in 1970. Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson waves to members gathered for the cornerstone ceremoney at the dedication of the Calgary Alberta Temple on Sunday, Oct. 28. Sunday, Oct., 28, 2012. Photo by Gerry Avant Gerry Avant, Deseret News
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From left, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, President Gordon B. Hinckley and Elder Thomas S. Monson tour the bishop's storehouse in Ogden on Sept. 18, 1982. Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, laughs along with U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, left, and Rep. Greg J. Curtis, speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, after a comment by Utah Valley University Presi Stuart Johnson, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson display "the game ball" presented to him after a cultural program segment portrayed a football game. The event was held in conjunction with the rededication of the Boise Idaho Temple. Saturday, Nov., 17, 2012. Photo by Gerry Avant Gerry Avant, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson shakes hands with a young girl at the end of the morning session of the 184th Annual General Conference at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 5, 2014. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson salutes graduates during his address at the Weber State University commencement at the Dee Events Center in Ogden on Friday, April 23, 2010. Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson speaks during the 184th Semiannual General Conference Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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LDS Church President Ezra Taft Benson cuts a ribbon with his wife, Flora, at his side. Standing to the left are President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances; at right are President Gordon B. Hinckley and his wife, Marjorie, Oct. 26, 1986. Deseret News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson delights youngsters by wiggling his ears after a dedicatory session of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple on Aug. 22, 2009. President Henry B. Eyring is in the background. Gerry Avant, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson speaks during the funeral services for President Boyd K. Packer, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City Friday, July 10, 2015. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson attends the cultural celebration performed by youths of the Twin Falls Idaho Temple district Aug. 23, 2008. Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News
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Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is animated during his talk in the morning session of the 183rd Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Salt Lake City. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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Elder LeGrand RIchards, left, Elder Thomas S. Monson and general Sunday School Superintendent David Lawrence McKay go over a program of a Sunday School session in the Tabernacle, which featured talks and a dramatization, April 8, 1968. Deseret News archives
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FOR CHURCH NEWS COVER--President Thomas S. Monson Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Tom Smart, Deseret News) Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson smiles after printing a page on a replica of the Gutenberg press at the opening of the Crandall Historical Printing Museum on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in Provo, Utah. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson and Eldred G. Smith talk after President Monson stopped by for a visit to Eldred G. Smith on his 105th birthday at the Smith's home Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, observe his 80th birthday at the LDS Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City on Aug. 22, 2007. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, salutes and waves following funeral services for his wife, Sister Frances J. Monson, at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Ravell Call, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson waves to the congregation with his wife, Frances, and their daughter, Ann M. Dibb, at the conclusion of the Saturday morning session of the 179th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a Deseret News archives
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Thomas Monson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, right, and his son-in-law Roger Dibb attend the interment of Frances Monson, wife of Thomas Monson, in the Salt Lake City Cemetery on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Frances Monson was born on October 27, 1927 and passed away on May 17, 2013. Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson greets his wife, Frances, before an LDS general conference session April 5, 2007, in Salt Lake City. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, receive honorary degrees at Utah Valley University's commencement Friday, May 1, 2009. Stuart Johnson, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson sends his wife Frances a kiss while leaving the General Relief Society Meeting at the Conference Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson assists his wife Frances out of the conference center following the morning session of General conference Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, ride in the Days of ’47 Parade on July 24, 2006. Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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Estabelecer uma rotina para as principais atividades do dia faz o tempo ser mais bem aproveitado. (Photo: DepositPhotos) Ravell Call, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson gets high-five from Michael Branan after selecting him as one of the children assisting in applying the mortar during the cornerstone ceremony for the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple in West Jordan Friday, Aug. 21, 2009. The event begins a weekend of dedication sessions for the 130th working temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jason Olson, Deseret News Deseret News archives
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Jan. 24, 1995 President Thomas S. Monson and wife, Frances, visit with newly installed Bishop Neiderauer of Salt Lake Catholic Diocese Photo by Gary McKellar, Deseret Morning News. This photo is a copy; the original was shot by DesNews photographer who covered the installation ceremony. Deseret News Archives
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President Thomas S. Monson gives his wife, Frances, a kiss at their 60th wedding anniversary celebration at the Lion House in Salt Lake City on Oct. 6, 2008. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; his wife, Frances, center, and their daughter, Sister Ann M. Dibb, second counselor in the Young Women general presidency of the LDS Church, walk out of the temple on the last Gerry Avant, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson waves after a press conference where it was announced that he was named Monday morning as the 16th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along with President Henry B. Eyring (no shown) and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf (background) as first and second counselors, respectively, in the First Presidency in Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 04, 2008. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson, center right, and his wife, Sister Frances J. Monson, center left, as well as their daughter, Ann M. Dibb, talk with Ira Fulton, a big supporter of Utah Valley University. They got together after President and Sister Monson rec Stuart Johnson, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson pulls the "devil's tail" on the replica of the Gutenberg press as Lou Crandall (left), CEO of the Crandall Historical Printing Museum watches, at the opening of the museum, Tuesday, April 21, 2009,in Provo, Utah. Tom Smart, Deseret News Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson laughs after talking with Utah Governor Gary Herbert after receiving the "Service Above Self" Award from Salt Lake City Rotary Club at their awards ceremony Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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In the middle of President Thomas S. Monson's remarks at the new eight-story Zions Bank Financial Center on University Avenue in Provo, he stops to give his wife, Frances, a kiss on the cheek. His remarks Friday, May, 14, 2010, included a story about chee Deseret News archives
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President Thomas Monson laughs with his wife, Frances, before speaking to Women's Conference attendees at Brigham Young University in Provo, May 2, 2008. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson speaks during the priesthood session of the 185th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Tom Smart, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, wave to the crowd watching the Days of ’47 parade in Salt Lake City on July 24, 2008. Laura Seitz, Deseret News
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President Thomas S. Monson leaves the priesthood session of the 185th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Salt Lake City. DepositPhotos
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Elder Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, are shown with their three children: Thomas Lee, Clark Spencer and Ann Frances, in 1963. Deseret News Archives
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President Thomas S. Monson attends the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square's Music for a Summer Evening at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 17, 2015. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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Elder Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, in 1965. Desert News archives
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President Thomas S. Monson and his wife, Frances, in front of the Salt Lake Temple. LDS Church
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Thomas S. Monson graduated cum laude from the University of Utah in 1948. LDS Church
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President Thomas S. Monson, the 16th prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Tuesday at his home in Salt Lake City at age 90.

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