Linnie Findlay

{{short description|American writer}} '''Linnie Taylor Marchant Findlay''' (April 22, 1919 – January 10, 2009)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20090114/ai_n31195822/ |title=Obituary: Linnie Findlay |access-date=2009-06-30 |date=2009-01-14 |work=Deseret News}}</ref> was a writer-historian based in Ephraim, Utah. A native of Ioka, Utah,<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Catalogue |year=1940–1941|publisher=Brigham Young University|location=Provo, Utah|oclc=173714965|page=274 }}</ref> she is cited as a founding editor of the ''Saga of the Sanpitch'', an annually-published collection of historical short-stories about Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants in Utah's Sanpete Valley.<ref>''Saga of the Sanpitch'', Volume 1. South Sanpete Stake. Manti, Utah. 1969.</ref> She and her husband, a professor at Snow College,<ref>{{cite book |title=Directory of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in higher education and school administration|year=1958|publisher=Brigham Young University|location=Provo, Utah|oclc=11601994}}</ref> were among the original organizers of the Mormon Miracle Pageant.<ref>Chantry, Judy. "Getting the Word Out: Ross and Linnie Findlay". ''Sanpete Messenger''. June 20, 2005. {{cite web |url=http://www.sanpetemessenger.com/pdf/MMiracle%202005.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-06-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051221095936/http://sanpetemessenger.com/pdf/MMiracle%202005.pdf |archive-date=2005-12-21 }}.</ref> Findlay was a Latter Day Saint.

==Publications== *{{cite journal |last=Findlay |first=Linnie |year=1964 |title=Why? |journal=The Relief Society Magazine |issue=51 |pages=734 }} *{{cite book |last=Findlay |first=Linnie |author2=Madsen, Eleanor P. |author3= Nielson, Virginia |title=History of the Relief Society in Ephraim, 1856-1999 |year=1999 |publisher=Ephraim Stake Relief Society |location=Ephraim, Utah|oclc=82898733}} *{{cite book |last=Findlay |first=Linnie |author2=Madsen, Eleanor P. |author3= Nielson, Virginia |title=Ephraim Utah Stake : A brief history of the religious background of Ephraim and its people since its early settlement, 1854-1989 |year=1990 |publisher=Ephraim Stake Relief Society |location=Ephraim, Utah|oclc=80530290}}

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== External links == * [http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/snow-sandpitch&CISOSTART=1,1 Saga of the Sanpitch] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717180941/http://www.utahtributes.com/search/show_listing/6304 Obituary of Ross Findlay, Linnie's husband]

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