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President Bonnie D. Parkin, who served as the Relief Society general president from 2002 to 2007, died Monday, July 28, 2025.
In Utah, Bonnie Parkin reared four sons while being a PTA president, volunteering on school community councils, and helping with reading and tutoring programs. Besides laboring in congregational ...
Relief Society manuals and magazines that date from 1932 through today will be on display in the Harold B. Lee Library's Special Collections during March to celebrate Women's History Month.
The Relief Society general presidency taught thousands of women in attendance at the Keynote Session of the 2023 BYU Women’s Conference that Christ is the ultimate healer.
Sister Jean Bingham, president of Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently spoke with KSL-TV's Carole Mikita about the women's organization she leads. Thursday ...
The Relief Society stepped in with $1.7 million in assistance for education — a program that is expanding this year — and to fill in gaps with pay or entitlement shortfalls.
The original “Christ in a Red Robe” by Minerva Teichert hangs in the Relief Society building located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News ...
The Relief Society began in 1842 in Nauvoo, Ill., and is the longest-running women’s organization in the world. “Relief Society has three purposes,” Miller said.
The SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR, also known as the Cleveland Relief Assn., organized on 26 Dec. 1850 and was active for about 2 years. Formed a month after the MARTHA WASHINGTON & DORCAS ...
Proceeds benefit the society’s Armenia-Artsakh Orphans’ Fund. Jasik Jarahian, general manager of the Armenian Relief Society Regional Headquarters, headed the organizing committee.
The church confirmed President Parkin’s passing to ABC4.com Tuesday morning. Parkin served as General Relief Society ...
Bonnie D. Parkin, who served as general president of the Relief Society for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2002 to 2007, died on Monday at 84. The church announced her death on ...