This article originally appeared in Deseret News by Tad Walch. Below is an excerpt:
SALT LAKE CITY — Elder Keith K. Hilbig, whose Alzheimer’s cut short his service as a general authority of the LDS Church, died Saturday. He was 73.
Elder Hilbig, a trial attorney who as an area legal counsel for the church had responsibility for dozens of European and Middle Eastern nations, died 10 days after a fall at a Bountiful, Utah, Alzheimer’s care facility, said his wife, Sister Susan Hilbig. The couple’s six children spent his final days by his side.
Elder Hilbig served as a member of the church’s First Quorum of the Seventy from 2006 to 2012, when he was granted emeritus status at age 70, typical practice in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But he had been placed on medical leave in 2010 after his Alzheimer’s impaired his ability to fully contribute, Sister Hilbig said.
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