Lucy Grant Cannon (
22
October 1880 –
7 May
1966) was the fourth general president of the
Young Women organization of
The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from
1937 to 1948. She was a member of the general presidency of the
Young Women from 1923 to 1948, serving as a counselor to two
presidents.
Lucy Grant
was born in Salt Lake
City
, Utah Territory to
Lucy Stringham and LDS
Church apostle Heber J.
Grant. She served as a church
missionary in the Western States
Mission of the church in 1901.
In 1902, Grant married George J. Cannon.
In 1923, Cannon was asked to succeed
Mae Taylor Nystrom as the second
counselor to
Martha Horne
Tingey, the general president of what was then called the
Young
Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. In 1929, when
Ruth May Fox succeeded Tingey, Cannon was asked
to be her first counselor. Cannon served in this capacity until
1929, when Fox was released and Cannon was selected by her father,
who was
President of the
Church, to be the fourth general president of what had been
renamed the
Young Women's
Mutual Improvement Association. Cannon served until 1948, when
she was succeeded by
Bertha Stone
Reeder.
Cannon and her husband were the parents of seven children. Their
son
George I. Cannon was a
general authority the church from 1986 to
1991. Lucy Grant Cannon died in Salt Lake City.
References
- Joyce O. Evans et al. (1970). A Century of Sisterhood,
1869-1969 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book)
- Marba C. Josephson (1956). History of YWMIA (Salt Lake
City: Deseret Book)