Last meeting with Raph Cannon
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