1/27/2024 0 Comments Craig laurie![]() ![]() He did this as a bishop and stake president in Arizona, MTC branch and district presidencies in Provo, mission president (Canary Islands, Spain), temple president (San Jose, Costa Rica), temple sealer (Provo City Center Temple), patriarch, and home teacher, minister, husband, father, grandfather and friend. He gave countless memorable talks from the pulpit and touched even more through one-on-one opportunities. Laurie and Pam and their children have great love for the members of the Phoenix 35th Ward and Phoenix North Stake, so many of whom looked to each other as a Church family. He was very dedicated to his career, but his heart truly belonged to his family and service in the Church. Laurie and Pam put down their roots in Phoenix, Arizona, where he practiced corporate real estate law for 31 years. They spent the next 51 years working hand in hand to face life’s challenges together. After a lengthy courtship they were sealed in the Cardston, Alberta Temple on July 22, 1972. While there, he met and fell in love with the pretty and talented girl who played the organ at church, Pamela Redd, a home economics teacher from Raymond, Alberta, Canada. This required him to move to Fort Ord, California, where he served as a law clerk in the JAG Corps. While in law school, Laurie was drafted into the US Army due to the Vietnam War. The experiences he had there defined the rest of his life as he developed a personal faith in Jesus Christ, reverence for the Book of Mormon, and a deep desire to bring others closer to Christ. Though his parents initially discouraged him from taking a break from school, he fulfilled a two-year mission to Central America in the countries of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama, including the San Blas Islands. While at SMU, he was influenced by his roommate to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which he had not considered previously. ![]() He embraced education and attended Southern Methodist University and later earned a degree in economics at Brigham Young University, as well as a Juris Doctorate from the University of Utah, all with the highest honors. There he learned exceptional self-discipline that stayed with him his whole life. ![]() At the age of 14, while his parents stayed in Kuwait, he moved back to the United States to attend boarding school at Missouri Military Academy. He had many long and fascinating stories from this time of his life about his British elementary school, riding camels and horses over sand dunes and meeting Arabian sheiks. At the age of five, his family moved to Kuwait where his father worked for Gulf Oil company. Laurie’s earliest years were spent around beloved extended family members in Arkansas where he was nicknamed “Skippie” and loved to be outside. On the morning of September 14, 2023, after a happy day of canning homegrown peaches with his wife and riding his bike along his favorite Mapleton trail, he passed away unexpectedly in his sleep. Laurie Baker Craig, the second child and only son of Mary Baker and Laurie Moreland Craig, was born on February 1, 1944, in Helena, Arkansas. ![]()
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