Carl W. Buehner
Born: 27 December 1898
Called as Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric: 6 April 1952
Called as Second Assistant in the YMMIA: 30 September 1961
Honorably Released: 1967
Died: 11 November 1974
Called as Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric: 6 April 1952
Called as Second Assistant in the YMMIA: 30 September 1961
Honorably Released: 1967
Died: 11 November 1974
Image source: Improvement Era, December 1961
Biographical Articles
Improvement Era, December 1961, Our Retiring Bishopric: Joseph L. Wirthlin, Thorpe B. Isaacson, Carl W. Buehner
Ensign, January 1974, Carl W. Buehner Dies, Ending Life of Service
Ensign, January 1974, Carl W. Buehner Dies, Ending Life of Service
"Our Retiring Bishopric: Joseph L. Wirthlin, Thorpe B. Isaacson, Carl W. Buehner." Improvement Era, December 1961: pg. 909-910.
CARL W. BUEHNER RETIRING SECOND COUNSELOR, PRESIDING BISHOPRIC On October 25, 1961, Carl William Buehner, former second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of the LDS Church, was chosen second assistant in the general superintendency of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association to act with Superintendent Joseph T. Bentley and first assistant, Marvin J. Ashton. Bishop Buehner, who was born in Stuttgart, Germany, a son of Carl Frederick and Anna Geigle Buehner, came to Salt Lake City with his parents when he was but two years old. Through his elementary and high school days he excelled in athletics, and upon leaving high school, attended the Chicago Institute of Technology. Returning to Utah, he entered the brick-making business with his father's sons. He also did building contract work on a rather extensive scale while laying the ground floor for the family Buehner Block Company that manufactures various building materials. Not only is Elder Buehner the president of this company, but he is vice president of the Utah Fur Farms, Inc.; director and part owner of the Brookfield Products, Inc., a grain and feed business; secretary and director of the Sunset Lawn Memorial Corporation, also president of the newly incorporated Beehive State Bank. Elder Buehner as a young man held various positions in the priesthood quorums and the auxiliaries of his ward, and at twenty-one years, he went on a mission to the Eastern States. After his return he married Lucile Thurman in the Salt Lake Temple, August 22, 1922. Later in the Forest Dale Ward, he served in the bishopric as second counselor, first counselor, and bishop. He became a member of the Granite Stake high council, and then the second counselor, first counselor, and president of his stake. During his presidency, he was chosen chairman of the Salt Lake Region of the Church welfare program and later held the same position in the Pioneer Region. In 1951 he was released as president of the Granite Stake and appointed to the general welfare committee of the Church and was closely associated with the Church welfare program until his recent release. On April 6, 1952, he was appointed second counselor to Joseph L. Wirthlin, Presiding Bishop of the Church, and was set apart April 10, by President J. Reuben Clark, Jr. When he was released from the Presiding Bishopric, September 30, 1961, he addressed the Saints, declaring: "When I was sustained as the second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, I remember saying to the Church that I pledged my wholehearted support to Bishop Wirthlin, Bishop Isaacson, and the leaders of the Church; and at least in a reasonable measure, I have accomplished this. I have enjoyed my work. All along the line, people have been so grand. I am so grateful for all of the marvelous blessings that have come to me. . . . "I appreciate my family. My four children were all married in the temple. . . . They and their companions have never embarrassed me for one minute. They are all active and devoted to the Church. One cannot help loving children and grandchildren like these. So, you see, the Lord has been good to me." (For additional biographical sketches and pictures of the retiring Presiding Bishopric, see the Improvement Era, May 1952 and March 1953, articles by Marba Cannon Josephson and Bryant S. Hinckley.) |
Elder Carl W. Buehner
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