Life Eternal" and "How Long, O Lord Most Holy and True," which appear as numbers 45 and 126 respectively in the 1985 LDS hymnal. Death Widtsoe died in Salt Lake City, of uremia; he also had prostate cancer for several years before his death. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. Adam S. Bennion filled the vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve following Widtsoe's death. Published works References External links 1872 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Mormon missionaries American Latter Day Saint hymnwriters American expatriates in Germany Apostles (LDS Church) Brigham Young College alumni Brigham Young University faculty Burials at Salt Lake City Cemetery Commissioners of Church Education (LDS Church) Converts to Mormonism Deaths from kidney failure Genealogy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Harvard University alumni Latter Day Saint writers Latter Day Saints from Massachusetts Latter Day Saints from Utah Mission presidents (LDS Church) Mormon apologists Mormon missionaries in Czechoslovakia Mormon missionaries in Germany Mormon missionaries in Switzerland Norwegian Latter Day Saints Norwegian Mormon missionaries Norwegian emigrants to the United States Norwegian general authorities (LDS Church) Norwegian hymnwriters People from Frøya, Trøndelag People from Sør-Trøndelag Presidents of Utah State University Presidents of the University of Utah Richards–Young family University of Göttingen alumni Utah State University faculty Writers from Salt Lake City