About Elaine Anderson Cannon
Lived 1922 – 2003 (aged 81). Elaine Anderson Cannon was an American editor and journalist.
Elaine Anderson Cannon (April 9, 1922 – May 19, 2003) was the eighth general president of the Young Women organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1978 to 1984. Cannon was a writer and an editor and the author of over fifty books.
Biography Elaine Anderson was born to Aldon Joseph and Minnie Egan Anderson in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a teenager, she started writing a daily column aimed at teenagers for the Deseret News.
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American writer and editor
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Elaine Anderson Cannon was born on 9 April 1922 in Salt Lake City.
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Elaine Anderson Cannon died on 19 May 2003.
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Elaine Anderson Cannon was an editor and journalist.
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