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President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addresses the 184th Annual General Conference of the LDS in Salt Lake City on April 6, 2014. The Mormon leader died Friday, July 3, 2015, at age 90. Church spokesman Eric Hawkins said Packer died at his home in Salt Lake City from natural causes. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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People wait in line outside the Mormon Temple before attending a public funeral for L. Tom Perry, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' highest governing body, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Friday, June 5, 2015, in Salt Lake City. Perry died Saturday, just 40 days after being diagnosed with rare anaplastic thyroid cancer that his family said spread like &quot;wildfire.&quot; (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon leader L. Tom Perry honored at public funeral

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