Inis Hunter Passes

Inis Hunter, the widow of the late LDS Church president Howard W. Hunter, has passed away at the age of 93. Inis was Presidents Hunter’s 2nd wife, a divorcee whom he had first met while serving as the Bishop of a California ward in the 1950’s. The couple married in 1990 while Howard was serving as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, seven years after the death of his wife Clair Jeffs, who had passed away following a prolonged illness. Inis Hunter traveled widely with her husband during the first few years of their marriage, and tended to him during his brief nine-month presidency, the shortest in Church history, and one in which he was mostly ill. Sense President Hunter’s passing sister Hunter has been known to make the occasional appearance at General Conference. She was the last living widow of a Church president.