Funeral Details Announced for Elder Robert D. Hales

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Robert D. Hales in office
via MormonNewsroom.org

Updated: October 3, 2017 2:16 PM

Elder Robert D. Hales passed away at 12:15 p.m. Sunday, October 1st. He was 85 years old. Funeral services will be held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square on Friday at 11 a.m.

The Temple Square gates and the Tabernacle doors will open at 9:30 a.m. Those wishing to attend are to be seated by 10:30 a.m. Overflow seating will be available in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square.

The funeral will be broadcast live via MormonNewsroom.orgLDS.org (English, Spanish, and Portuguese), KSL TV 5.2, the KSL TV app, BYUtv, BYUtv Global, KBYUtv Eleven, BYUtv International, Mormon ChannelCanal Mormón (Spanish) and on the Church satellite system. Audio broadcasts will be available on KSL radio, BYU Classical 89 and BYU Radio.

Contributions to the Humanitarian Aid Fund or the Church’s General Missionary Fund are requested in lieu of flowers and can be made at give.churchofjesuschrist.org/hales.

Elder Hales died in the hospital of causes incident to age, surrounded by his wife and family.

He was born on August 24, 1932, in New York City. He graduated from the University of Utah and earned an MBA from Harvard. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a jet fighter pilot. He married the former Mary Crandall, and together they had two sons.

Elder Hales was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on April 2, 1994. Before becoming an apostle, he served as an assistant to the Twelve, and later as a member of the Quorum of the Seventy. He was the Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church for 9 years just before becoming an apostle.

Elder Hales had also been a regional representative, a branch president, a bishop three times, a stake high councilor, and counselor in a stake presidency. He was president of the England London Mission in the late 1970s and was first counselor in the Church’s Sunday School general presidency.

Before being called into full-time church service, Elder Hales had a distinguished business career. He had held executive positions in three major companies.

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