Former Regional Representative & Deseret Management Officer dies (Funeral for John M. Scowcroft is Monday)
Deseret News 15Dec99 B2

Former Regional Representative &Deseret Management Officer dies (Funeral for John M. Scowcroft is Monday) Deseret News 15Dec99 B2 http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,145011460,00.html?

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- LDS business executive and the former general manager of LDS Church-owned Deseret Management Corp., the holding company for the Church's for-profit businesses, died December 11th of cancer in Salt Lake City. He was 75.

Scowcroft was an Ogden native trained in management at the University of Utah before he received an MBA from the prestigious Northwestern University in 1952. From there he spent 23 years working for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and AMOCO, working chiefly from New York City and from Chicago. In 1974 he went to work for Deseret Management. He helped found several Utah technology support organizations, including Utah Ventures, Utah Technology Finance Corporation and Process Innovators and was past president of Mountain West Venture Group. After retiring, he served on the Boards of many local firms such as Maverick Country Stores, Deseret Mutual Benefit Association and the Salt Lake Advisory Board of First Security Bank.

While in New York and Chicago, he served as a member of stake high councils there and was a member of the Chicago Stake Presidency and a regional representative.

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John Major Scowcroft
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