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Last meeting with Raph Cannon

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This photo was taken on the wedding of our 2nd daughter Su Min, on the above-stated date, being the last time I would meet him again. I know my daughter and husband Jay had visited him at the nursing home taking care of him. Bro Ralph Cannon, whose wife Ruth passed away years earlier, is not the longest living American member of the Church I know whom I have long-lasting face-to-face contact with during my lifetime. This is because he and his wife only came to serve as couple missionaries in Kuala Lumpur in the year 1981. There were other American members I knew earlier such as Elder Stephen Brown who baptized me in Australia and David Gessel who was one of the many missionaries who had taught me. I was able to meet up with these good and old friends of mine over the years due to my frequent travel to the US, particularly to Salt Lake City and Bro Cannon just lived a short distance from the airport near the Salt Lake Temple. For the record, he is one of the few I know
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Meeting President Houghton and wife Linda again

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In Salt Lake City Utah Met in the evening after the Saturday's General Conference in Salt Lake City: former Singapore Mission President Bob Houghton and wife Linda with Mary and Effian Kadarusman, pioneer leaders of Indonesia.  This photo and others are found in this journal post. (Time of writing: 12 Mar 2018, Space: blogger post in Singapore) (Time of Travel to: 1 Oct 2005 Space of event: Salt Lake City, Utah) 2 April 2016  was the date the above post in Facebook was made but date of the photo cannot be named exactly as it was a studio photo which was not a digital photo where there is a date stamp 11 Mar 2018  President Houghton made a Facebook comment below on this date with my reply on the next day seen below his comment : (Time of writing: 12 Mar 2018, Space: Blogger post in Singapore) (Time of Travel to: 2 Apr 2016 Space of event: Facebook post)
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Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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