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Ronald Darger

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Ronald Darger

Ronald Darger spoke at a general meeting outside the Zitting home in Salt Lake City on 5 June 1960. The archive file is labeled Ronald Darger, and also “home from army.” No public death record that can be tied to this speaker has been found, and he is treated here as a person whose vital dates are not yet confirmed.

On 5 June 1960 he spoke at a general meeting outside the Zitting home in Salt Lake City. The archive file is labeled Ronald Darger and, in the same file name, “home from army.” That second phrase is a file label, not a service record cited on this page. A second archive copy of the same talk is noted in the sources and is not listed as a separate appearance.1

The archive also holds later remarks labeled Ronald Darger at the funeral of Orlin Leon Cooke on 16 April 1980, which are not published here.2 A Deseret News notice of 30 March 1994, for Eliza Aldora McDaniel Darger, who died on 28 March 1994, lists among the survivors “Ronald Darger of Colorado City, Ariz.” Identifying the 1960 speaker as that son is possible, and is recorded here as a lead, but it is not treated as proven.3

A 7 October 2026 obituary for Ronald Allen Darger of Willmar, Minnesota, born in 1952 at Tracy, Minnesota, is a different man — too young to have spoken in 1960, and from a different family — and is not used as an identification here.4 No birth date, death date, or parents’ names are given on this page.

Appearances

1960

  1. TalkZitting home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Zitting home, Salt Lake City · 2:40:266:50

Later archive remarks labeled Ronald Darger, at the funeral of Orlin Leon Cooke on 16 April 1980, are not opened here.

Sources

  1. Archive recording 1960-06-05-Ronald Darger-home from army-SLC-Zittings-outside-General Meeting, catalog 0be11361967b, 6:50. 5 June talk. A second copy of the same talk is catalog 09c4175c1a28, file 60-06-05-Ronald Darger-home from army-SLC-Zittings-outside-General Meeting. The parent meeting is General meeting, Zitting home, 5 June 1960. The text on the talk page is an automatic, unreviewed transcript; the recording is the source.
  2. Archive funeral recording for Orlin Leon Cooke, 16 April 1980, with remarks labeled Ronald Darger. That later recording is not published here.
  3. “Eliza Aldora McDaniel Darger,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 30 March 1994: died 28 March 1994; survivors include Ronald Darger of Colorado City, Ariz. The identification of the 1960 speaker with that son is a lead, not a proven fact.
  4. Obituary of Ronald Allen Darger, Willmar, Minnesota, published 7 October 2026: born 1952, Tracy, Minnesota. He would have been a child in 1960 and is not the speaker on this recording.