that his "direct cause of death" was "heart failure." Memorial services for Abraham Owen and Helen Woodruff were held on June 26, 1904 in the Granite Stake Tabernacle. The Deseret Evening News reported that around 1,500 people were in attendance. Francis M. Lyman, Seymour B. Young, Junius F. Wells, Martha H. Tingey, Maria Young Dougall, and J. Golden Kimball participated in the program. W. W. Maughan "read a biographical sketch of Apostle Woodruff." Woodruff was succeeded by Charles W. Penrose in his office as apostle. Heber J. Grant and his wife took care of Owen and Helen Woodruff's four children after their deaths. Their daughter Helen Woodruff Anderson went on to attend the University of Utah and later became a member of the Relief Society General Board. On July 17, 1993, Woodruff's body was transported from El Paso to Salt Lake City and was reinterred in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. His wife Helen's body was moved from Mexico City to rest beside Woodruff's. Editor and politician S. A. Kenner described Woodruff as possessing "scrupulous honesty, simplicity, implicit faith in God, industry and a total absence of ostentation". The Iron County Record memorialized him as "one of those unostentatious unassuming sort of men who win the hearts of those with whom they come in contact by making them feel perfectly at home in their society, and that although they are called to hold a prominent place in the administration of public affairs, are not the least bit top heavy in consequence." References External links Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Abraham O. Woodruff Abraham Owen Woodruff papers, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Abraham Owen Woodruff's missionary journal, vol. 1, 1894, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Abraham Owen Woodruff's missionary journal, vol. 2, 1895–1896, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Letters to Helen Winters Woodruff, 1898–1904, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Abraham Owen Woodruff correspondence, 1885–1904, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Abraham Owen Woodruff scrapbooks and notebooks, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University 1872 births 1904 deaths 19th-century Mormon missionaries American Mormon missionaries in Germany American Mormon missionaries in Switzerland American general authorities (LDS Church) Apostles (LDS Church) Burials at Salt Lake City