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==Biographies== Jerald Tanner was born in [[Provo, Utah]], and was a fifth-generation Mormon. He studied at the [[University of Utah]] and received a degree from [[Salt Lake Trade Technical Institute]]. His great-great-grandfather, [[John Tanner (Mormon)|John Tanner]], gave large donations to church founder [[Joseph Smith]] when the fledgling church was deeply in debt. Like her husband, Sandra was a fifth-generation Mormon. She is a great-great-granddaughter of [[Brigham Young]], the LDS Church's second [[President of the Church (LDS Church)|president]]. Both families had longstanding ties to the Mormon community. They met in the spring of 1959, in [[Salt Lake City]], at a religious meeting of [[Pauline Hancock]]'s [[Church of Christ (Lukeite)]],<ref>Sometimes spelt 'Lukites'.</ref><ref name="archiveswest">{{cite web |title=Sandra Tanner oral history interviews, 1972-1983 |url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv59191 |publisher=[[Archives West]] |access-date=16 October 2021}}</ref> Soon after they were introduced, Jerald and Sandra began jointly researching the subject of Mormonism. Each had been raised as [[Latter-day Saint]]s, but discovered that they had each begun questioning the church in their teenage years. Jerald and Sandra Tanner were married by a [[Minister (Christianity)|Protestant minister]] in [[Mission Hills, Los Angeles|Mission Hills, California]], on June 14, 1959.<ref name="archiveswest"/> The following year, both resigned from the LDS Church. In 1964, they began an outreach to Mormons at their house in [[Salt Lake City]], which grew into UTLM. They had two daughters and a son together. After 47 years of marriage, Jerald died in [[Salt Lake City]] on October 1, 2006, as a result of complications arising from [[Alzheimer's disease]]. He had retired a few months before his death.<ref name="tribute">{{cite web |url=http://utlm.org/jeraldtanner.html |title=Tribute to Jerald Tanner |publisher=Utah Lighthouse Ministry |date=October 7, 2006}}</ref> The physical location of the Utah Lighthouse Ministry, located near [[Smith's Ballpark]], served as a bookstore for the Tanners' publications and was frequently visited by questioning Mormons and national journalists looking for information on Mormon history. It closed in March 2023. Sandra Tanner attributed the closure to rising crime in the area, including a robbery of the store itself, and described it as a retirement from ministry work.<ref name="epicenter"/>
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