The compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow credits a reporter named Leona Jeffs on dated talks from 1940 through 1947. Of the unique talks published from that compilation, 42 carry her name: 40 in her name alone, and 2 jointly with Marjorie Holm. Additional compilation reports credited to her fall on dates already in the 1940–1945 Salt Lake minute books and are not posted a second time.1

A Salt Lake Tribune photograph from the 1944 Utah cases, as later captioned in a Tribune retrospective, names a Leona Jeffs in a group of women (back row, with Myrtle Lloyd, Rhea Allred Kunz, and Mabel Finlayson). This page does not treat that caption as proof that the reporter and the woman in the photograph are the same person.2

This site has a separate page for a 1960 speaker labeled Leona Allred. That page already sets aside a 2018 Ogden obituary for Leona Fay Watts Allred as a different woman. This page does not treat the 1940s reporter and the 1960 speaker as the same person.3 Later informal and memoir accounts use the name Leona Jeffs Allred for a woman said to have died in the late 1990s. Those accounts are not used here as an identification, or as a source of birth or death dates. No birth date, death date, or parents’ names are given here.