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LDS missionary from Utah dies in car wreck

(Photo courtesy of the Meyocks family and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Craig L. Meyocks and his wife, Brenda, senior missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, working at the historic Nauvoo, Ill., site. Craig Meyocks died Thursday after a Christmas Day auto accident in Iowa. Brenda Meyocks was injured in the crash.

  | Dec. 27, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
| Updated: 9:47 p.m.

A senior missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died in Iowa after a car wreck on Christmas Day.

Craig L. Meyocks, 66, was serving at the Illinois Nauvoo Mission when the crash occurred, according to a church spokesman. Meyocks and his wife, Brenda Meyocks, are from Dammeron Valley, Utah, about 17 miles north of St. George.

Brenda Meyocks was injured in the crash but is expected to recover.

“We extend our sincere condolences to the Meyocks family and their loved ones and pray they will feel peace and support, particularly at this time of year. We also pray for the other individuals involved in this accident,” church spokesman Daniel Woodruff wrote in a statement.