Sep 4, 2018

Second funeral held for FLDS leader's wife, who died in 2004

The Associated Press
September 4, 2018

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A second funeral has been held for the second wife of the imprisoned leader of a polygamous sect whose members ran two communities on opposite sides of the Arizona-Utah border.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported that 130 people attended the service for Barbara Jeffs held Thursday near Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, including many who couldn’t attend the first funeral in 2004 in Texas.

Barbara Jeffs was a wife of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

She died of cancer at age 39 and was buried at a sect-owned ranch near Eldorado, Texas, but Texas subsequently seized the property.

Her body was recently exhumed and transported to Arizona, with daughter Rachel Jeffs saying family members pitched in to pay the costs.

http://www.mohavedailynews.com/news/second-funeral-held-for-flds-leader-s-wife-who-died/article_4563ab68-b003-11e8-9022-6368d3547ee0.html

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