Last update: September 24, 2008.
A link to the Missouri Independance Mission which contains other mission years information is:
Missouri Independance Mission
LDS mission net is located at: LDS Missions.
Central States Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) 1959-1961
This web page has information about the Central States Mission of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the period of September 1959
through September 1961. Elders serving in this period are indicated, pictures are
shown, and some statistics are given.
The Mission Presidents were:
Samuel R. Carpenter (Kathleen R. Carpenter) who served from 8/58 until 8/61?. President and Sister Carpenter
G. Carlos Smith who served from 8/61 to 8/64?.
#Ronald C. Adair
Wayne Alder
Charles William Allen 4/61 - 4/63?
Preston Cordell Allen: 285 Shari Circle, Bountiful, Utah 84010 (801) 292-1673 allenpc@ldschurch.org 7/60 - 7/62 Picture(s)
Bruce Allred Picture
Duane Allread 8/57 - 8/59
Keith Allread
Robert Almond Picture
Ennis K. Anderson Picture
Rodney Delone Anderson 1/61 - 1/63?
Ross Anderson 8/57 - 8/59
!Grant M. Andrus 6/61 - 6/63?
!May W. Andrus 6/61 - 6/63?
Lonnie Lee Angle Picture
#Brenton Atkinson
#Jimmie Lee Aurich Picture(s)
Jerry A. Baldwin Picture
Virgil Clark Baldwin; 5856 West Cilma Drive, West Valley, Utah 84028 801-849-0758 Picture
John Rial Ball; Box 62, Lewisville, Idaho 83431 (208)754-4509, gayleball_1@q.com Picture
Jay W. Barker; 1350 East 2600 North, North Ogden, Utah (801) 782-8582 (barkergirl@comcast.net) Picture
!Richard Barrett
!Sarah Barrett
Dwayne Parker Bayles; Richfield, Utah (435) (801) 896-6906 8/61 - 8/63?
Raymond Beck; 612 S 200th W, Providence, UT 84332-9732 (435) 752-7139 6/61 - 6/63?
Gary Bennett 6/61 - 6/63?
Norman Bennett
John Maurice Bingham Picture
David Lee Bluemel 4/61 - 4/63; 407 N Center Street, American Fork, Utah 84003, (801)756-1102, bluemel.d.l@comcast.net
Ted Bollwinkel
Marius Laverl Bond 6/60 - 6/62? Picture
James Boone
Ronald Boren
James Boucher
W. Clare Bowen Picture
Garry Bowen
Sherman Ray Bradshaw; 195 E 500 N, Beaver, UT 84713 (435) 438-5072 P.O. Box 178 Picture
Keith Hale Brimhall Picture
Thais Virl Bronson
Gurn Brown 8/57 - 8/59
David Brown
Kenneth L. Brown Picture(s)
Larry Ray Brown 8/61 - 8/63?
Richard H. Brown 61-63?; 35 E 200 N, Millville, Utah 84326, (435)752-8378, rhbrownfamily@hotmail.com
Robert Owen Brown Picture(s)
#Sanford Kay Buhler Picture(s)
John Raymond Burch; Picture(s)
!Esta E. Call Picture
!Vasco Call Picture
Jerry Campbell
Robert Bruce Campbell Picture
Henry Carlson
Glenn Carroll 8/57 - 8/59
Gene W. Carter Picture
William Cash
Bruce Albert Chadwick Picture
Keith B. Child Picture
Mark Christensen
Richard Christensen
#!Amelia Mae Christensen
#!Wilford George Christensen
Stephen Clarke; 5824 E 2200 N, Eden, UT 84310-9509 (801)745-1348 Picture
Gerald Dean Clements Picture
Neil Clements
Lawrence A. Clinger Picture
Michael S, Cole; 1145 East Creek View Drive, Fruit Heights, Utah 84037 801-546-3611 colems@gmail.com 8/59 - 8/61.
Retired 2004 - Service Mission (Internet Operations COB) 4/2004 - Present Picture(s)
Companions: Ferris Lynn, Samuel Crawford, Don Ferney, LaMont Whatcott, L. A. Clingler, Burton Shelton, Dennis Newman, Cordell Allen, William Engemann, Steven Hymas. Mission Reunion April 4, 1997.
David Allen Cook 6/60 - 6/62? Picture
Melvin Cook
#Ted Lewis Cottle Picture
Samuel Crawford
Larry Willard Crump Picture
C. Grenade Curran Picture
Wayne John Davis Picture
*Jessie Rowena Davidson 3/61 - 3/63?
Ronald Samuel Dean; 1/59 - 1/61 Picture
Miles S Decker Picture(s)
Merrill A. Despain; 1245 West 1600 North, Mapelton, Utah 84664 801-489-9195 iris50@aol.com Picture
Joseph N. Dilworth Picture
Thomas Dorff 8/57 - 8/59
Kenneth Dowd
#Ted King Dowling; 6272West 10830 North, Highland, Utah 84003 (801)787-5915 Picture
Thomas Dufur
Max Duncan
Ronald Dean Durant Picture(s)
Evan Leon Earl Picture
Merlin Eborn 8/57 - 8/59
John Elmer Elggren Jr. 2/61 - 2/63?
William Herbert Engemann; 4153 North Dover, Provo, Utah 84604 801-427-3928 billengemann.com Pictures
#LaVar Engle
Ashel Almond Evans Picture
Wilford DeVon Evans 1/61 - 1/63?
E. William Evans Picture
Carl Farnsworth
Larry Farnsworth
Ellis P. Ferrell 6/61 - 6/63; 834 E 620 S. Orem, Utah 84097, (801)226-3557, eferrell5@comcast.net
Walter Francis Faucette 1/61 - 12/62; 259 N 2633 W, Hurricane, Utah 84737, (435)586-5252 Temple mission Oct 2008
Don George Ferney;1455 E 1260 N, Logan, UT 84341-2817 (435) 752-5471 ferneyd@pcu.net Picture
Louis R. Flinders Picture
Floyd Flinn
Jerry D. Forbush; 1437 East 8600 South, Sandy, Utah 84093-1364 801-255-0052 jerryforbush@netzero.net Nov 1959 - Nov 1961 Picture
Dwight Fowers; 3695 Mulberry Dr., Saint George, UT 84790-7536 (435) 652-3770 dwight.fowers@siriuscom.com 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
#Thomas Kent Frandsen Picture
#Kenneth L. Fryer; 624 East 500 North. Orem, Utah 84097 (801) 225-1781 1/59 - 1/61
Robert Lee Fuhriman; 13910 SE 23rd St, Bellevue, WA 98005-4016 425-746-9647 bobfuhriman@hotmail.com 7/60 - 7/62 Picture
William Kay Furness Picture
J. Rulon Gammon Picture
Howard Gardner
Mark Garff
#Lee Andrew Garner
#Dean Robert Garrett Jr.
Randall Gee
George Edward Gibbons; 3956 West Valley View Road, Thatcher, Arizona 85552 928-428-2821 gibbonsfamily@cableone.net Picture
#David Fisher Godfrey Picture
Merlin Keith Godfrey Picture
L. Drew Goodrich Picture
I. Dean Goodwin Picture
David L. Goodworth Picture
Lyle Gordon; 3326 S 300 W, Bountiful, UT 84010-7957 (801)292-4992 Picture
Leo M. Grant Picture
David Greenhalgh 8/57 - 8/59
Dennis Griffith 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
!Amanda Marie Griffith Picture
!Robert Thomas Griffith Picture
Worth Hugh Grimshaw Picture
Elwood McMullin Gurney Picture
Scott Jacobson Halliday Picture
George Hamilton
Gary Hancock
Lynn C. Hanks Picture(s)
David Hansen
John L. Hansen; 1035 Queens Dr, American Fork, UT 84003 (801) 756-3986 johnsandra8@yahoo.com 3/59 - 3/61 Sidney South Mission 11/2001 - 4/2003 Picture(s)
Neils Hyrum Hansen; 2111Amethyst Drive, Longmont, CO 80504 (303)678-5649 6/60 - 6/62 Picture
#Robert Terry Hansen
Wendell Hardman
Donald Jay Hardy Picture
Neal Hardy
William T. Harper; Lehi, Utah Picture
Delwyn Dee Harris 8/59 - 8/61 Picture(s)
George Vard Harriss 3/61 - 3/63?
#Eldon Charles Hart Jr. Picture
Alvin LeRoy Harward 4/61 - 4/63?
George Melvin Hastings Picture
*Winfred Haven
!Joseph Hawkins
Henry Heilesen
Ralph N. Heninger Picture
Joseph Hetrick 8/57 - 8/59
Richard Lynn Higginson; 425 North 1200 East, Bountiful, Utah 84010 (801)292-6484 Picture
Roger Hollingshead Picture
#Kent Wesley Holman Picture(s)
Gary Holt
Melvin Holyoak
Douglas Britt Horrocks 4/61 - 4/63?
Roland Lynn Horrocks; Picture
David Arnison Hoskisson 8/61 - 8/63?
Jerry H. Houck Picture
!Ellen L. Howell Picture(s)
!William L. Howell Picture(s)
Paul Ernest Huber Picture
R. Dee Hughes
Gary Vance Hunsaker Picture
Lorin Winslow Hurst 4/61 - 4/63?
Steve Hymas 5/61 - 5/63?
#Heber Wells Inkley; 3706 W 9490 S. , South Jordan, UT 84095-9529 (801) 280-1963 Picture(s)
Reba Mae Jackson 4/61 - 4/63?
Richard H. Jackson Picture(s)
Ervin LeRoy Jacobsen Picture
Rex James Picture(s)
Stanley C. Jameson 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
!James Seymour Jensen 8/61 - 8/63?
Kay H. Jensen Picture
!Ruby Venice Jensen 8/61 - 8/63?
Calvin Johnson
Dee LaFaun Johnson 2/61 - 2/63?
Kurt Dwain Johnson Picture
Michael Johnson
Arnold Jones
*Janet Jordan
Tharon Von Judd 6/60 - 6/62? Picture
Albert Dean Keeler Picture(s)
Robert H. Keiser Picture
Michael Kneeshaw
John M. Kniffen Picture
Gary Korth
#David Wayne Koralewski Picture
Poul Kristensen
Darryl Kristjanson
John Lant Jr. 6/61 - 6/63?
DeLoy Larsen
Ronald A. Larsen Picture
Robert E. Larson 6/61?-6/63 (Deceased) Picture
Roy M. Larson Picture
Don R. Layton; Home phone 702-648-4107,Layton Layton & Tobler LLP, Certified Public Accountants, 606 South Ninth Street, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-7013, 702-384-1995 Picture
Robert Liston; 1237 Lillie Cir, Salt Lake City, UT 84121-1726 (801) 262-2797 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
Larry D. Lofthouse Picture
Merrill Spencer Lofthouse Picture
Eliza L. Longhurst (Deceased) Picture
Willard L. Longhurst (Deceased) Picture
John William Luthi Picture(s)
Ferris Lynn; 15229 David Street, Caldwell, Idaho 83607 (208) 459-6202 11/1958? - 11/1960 2004 Mission to Russia
Merlin Earl Madsen 5/61 - 5/63?
C. Ronald Madsen Picture
Donald Eugene Magoffin Picture(s)
George Mangan
Eugene Manwaring
Victor Manwaring; Picture
Gary W. Martin Picture
Glenn Roy Maughan Picture
Frank Martin Merryweather Picture
!J. William McCarrey Picture
Andrew "A" McCombs 1/61 - 1/63?
Dallace A McCuistion Picture(s)
Blake W. McCune
Gene Henry McDaniel 1/61 - 1/63? Picture
Carlyn McElroy
James K. McFerson Picture
Scott J. McEuen Picture
Derald Clayton McNeil 1/61 - 1/63?
Eldon L. Mikesell Picture
Frederick Gordon Mills 1/61 - 1/63?
Albert Kenneth Mollerup Picture
David E. Monson Picture
Robert D. Monson Picture
Dallas B. Montague 7/59 - 7/61 ? Picture(s)
Kenneth Mowrey
Darryl G. Murri Picture
Chad Leon Neilson Picture
Kent Nelson
Mark W. Nelson Picture
#Richard Karl Nelson Picture
William Roy Nelson Picture
Dennis G. Newman; 1177 Rushton St, Ogden, UT 84401-0721 (801) 399-2050 Picture(s)
!Aleda Nicholas
!Jasper Nicholas
*Bette Jean Ogden Picture
Burton K. Olsen; 560 East Maple Street, Mapleton, Utah 84664 801 489-6075 burton_olsen@byu.edu 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
Kenyon Robert Olson 8/61 - 8/63?
Robert Y. Olsen Picture
Russell Olsen 2/61 - 2/63?
Tom Josef Olsen 6/60 - 6/62?
Elvin Arthur Ostler 3/61 - 3/63?
*Patricia Oviatt Picture(s)
Garron Packer
Charles Padbury 8/57 - 8/59
Charles Robert Parker Picture
#Rulon Louis Passey; 2504 N 4175 W, Plain City, UT (801) 731-0016 ar39@msn.com Picture(s)
George M Peacock Picture(s)
#!Vera H. Peart Picture(s)
#!William George Peart Picture(s)
Donald Kent Peay Picture
Ferron Perkes
#Darwin George Perry Picture(s)
Michael Perry Picture(s)
A. Dahle Peterson 7/59 - 7/61 Picture
Leon P. Pierotti Picture
David Oldham Porter Picture
Robert Fredrick Pothier 3/61 - 3/63?
James A. Powell Picture
M. Reed Pratt
!Garnet Watkins Probst 8/61 - 8/63?
!Joseph Ernest Probst 8/61 - 8/63?
Stanley James Raddon Picture(s)
J. Orvil Ragle
Joe Clarence Ravsten; 420 E Center, Clarkston, UT 84305 435-563-3891 4/58 - 4/60, reggierav@worldnet.att.net Picture
#Wells Byron Rawlins Picture(s)
#Kenneth A. Reed Picture
#Dennis Jensen Reeder
Acel Reynolds
Newell Reynolds
Dennis L. Rhoton 7/60 - 7/62? Picture(s)
Odell Rice 8/57 - 8/59
Dean V. Richins Picture
Sheldon Rindlisbacher 8/57 - 8/59
Gary E. Rippstein 7/59 - 7/61? Picture
#Elbert Earl Ross Picture
Howard G. Sallenbach Picture
Garry Roy Sampson Picture(s)
John Sanders
John David Schmidt 2/61 - 2/63?
Dean Ray Schank Picture
#Kenneth Glenn Schwartz; 5571 Holladay Blvd., Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 801-278-1185 Picture
Fred L. Scoresby; 1281 Morningside Drive, Rexburg, Idaho 83440 208-356-3573 flscores@cable1.net Picture
Terry Robert Seamons Picture(s)
Martin Ellsworth Seneca Jr. 2/61 - 2/63?
Burton R. Shelton Picture(s)
James Ronald Shephard 4/61 - 4/63?
Charles Dan Shumway 8/61 - 8/63?
Clark A. Siddoway Picture
Dan Gene Simlins 1/61 - 1/63?
Rulon A. Simmons; 745 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84102-2256 (801) 519-7192 (Doctor's office phone) Picture
Charles E. Sjostrom Picture
Leland Cyrus Skidmore 6/60 - 6/62? Picture
J. Garold Slade; 6716 Cheney Ranch Loop, Show Low, AZ 85901-4011 (928) 537-8152 Picture
*Elizabeth Anne Smith ? - 8/61 Picture
Charles Smith
James M. Smith Picture(s)
Marsden V. Smith; 5197 Stacey, Las Vegas, NV 89108, 702-647-0135, Wife Linda, Has his own landscape business,
he was the Bishop of the Curtis Park Ward in Las Vegas.; Currently he is the Ward Mission Leader (9/2008) Picture
Wendell A. Smith
William Clay Smith 3/61 - 3/63?
K. Blaine Snarr Picture
Gilbert H. Snow Picture
Charles Hinkley Soloman Picture
Myron A. Soltau Picture
Mark Sommerfeldt
Roger Lee Sorensen; 235 N. Hooper, Soda Springs, Idaho 83276 (208)547-4778 Picture
LaVar Roy Spencer Picture
Lloyd Spencer
John C. Stark Picture
Alan Steed
#Ross Steffens
Delos Einor Stenquist; 4427 West 4600 South, West Haven, Utah 84401 801-732-0723 Picture
Dale N. Stevens 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
#Kenneth Richards Stevens Picture(s)
Denis Waldo Stoddard 6/60 - 6/62? Picture
Thomas Edward Storrs 8/61 - 8/63?
Clark Stringham Picture
Louis Richard Stuart Picture
Douglas H. Swendsen Picture
Dennis W. Sybrowsky Picture
Gary Syme
Keith Taylor
Blaine Tegan Picture
*Ervonna Mae Telford Picture
Bruce G. Terry; 551 N Vineyard, Mesa, AZ 85201-5648 (480) 962-0684 gerreterry@msn.com 8/59 - 8/61 Picture
John Arthur Thomas Picture
L Wayne Thomas Picture(s)
*Marlene Thomas Picture(s)
Erwin Thompson
#Gary Durfee Thompson
Gary Thornley 8/57 - 8/59
William Brent Thorpe Picture
Lynn Jack Tolley Picture
James R. Tryon Picture
Donald Tuft 8/57 - 8/59
Bernard LeRoy Turner; 1122 North 75 East, Orem,Utah 84057-3277; (801)225-7916 (Samoa Mission, October 2004 - April 2006) Picture
Leland L. Vincent 1/61 - 1/63?
Robert George Wachs 3/61 - 3/63?
!Clinton Wakefield 8/61 - ? Picture
!Jennie Wakefield 8/61 - ? Picture
David Ward Picture
Kenneth Clare Wardle; 625 Free Land Ave, Midvale, UT 84047-4655 (801) 561-5579 Picture
Richard Marlow Warnick; 150 E 300th S, Pleasant Grove, UT 84062-2737 (801) 785-3808 7/60 - 7/62? Picture
*Sonja Mae Wasden 3/61 - 3/63?
Michael D. Washburn 8/61 - 8/63?
Glen Watson
David Watt
Tom G. Wayman; 475 E 500 S, Manti, UT 84642-1732 (435) 835-3923 no email Picture(s)
Kimber C. Webb Picture
Herschel West
Frank L. Wharton Picture
LaMont Whatcott; 75 East 400 South, Fillmore, Utah 84631 (435) 743-8726 6/58 - 6/60 Picture(s)
Delwyn R. Wheeler Jr.; 1424 16th Ave, Longmont, CO 80504 (303) 772-3591 delwheeler@yahoo.com 10/60 - 10/62 Picture
David Lawrence Wheeler Picture
S. Edward White Jr. Picture
Vernon Demont Wiberg 1914 E 200th S, Layton, UT 84040-3140 (801) 593-9877 dwiberg@burgoyne.com 8/57 - 8/59
Gordon Wight
David Kay Wilcox Picture
Ronald Wilkinson 7/60 - 7/62? Picture
Robert Murry Wilkes; 336 W 3rd S,Rexburg, Idaho 83440-2136 (208) 356-9604 estebob@msn.com 7/60 - 7/62 Picture
Spencer M. Willardsen Picture
Bruce Williams 8/59 - 8/61
Earl Corless Williams Picture
J Stanley Williams Picture(s)
Leon Holley Williams 2/61 - 2/63?
Paul Williams
Ernest Reed Wilson 8/61 - 8/63?
Roy Wilson
Bob Van Winkel Picture
Arvin W. Winkelkotter Picture
Earl Jay Winn 2/61 - 2/63?
!Gladys Winterton
!Valeo Winterton
Donald Jex Woolley 3/61 - 3/63
Robert C. Wray Picture
Jack G. Yalden; 1025 E. Riverhaven Circle, Orem, Utah 84097, (801) 607-1063 jyalden@gmail.com
David Arthur Young 6/60 - 6/62? Picture(s)
Kenneth LaRay Zeeman; 543 E 650 N,, Centerville, UT 84014-1942, (801) 292-3562 Picture(s)
Hans Joseph Zimmer Picture
*Ardis Ann Zirker Picture
Robert L. Zollinger; 11005 W 11200 N, Tremonton, UT 84337-9402 (435) 854-3730 Picture
* = Sister Missionaries
! = Branch/Member Missionaries
# = Transfer from Northern States Mission
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