Cahoon, Matilda Rozelle Watts

LDS. American, 1881–1973, born in Murray, Utah. While still in her teens, she began a teaching career that took her to other parts of Utah and to Nevada. At age nineteen, she went to Chicago for further music study. After the death of her husband, she obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah. In a meeting in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square on September 3, 1985, Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency paid tribute to Matilda Watts Cahoon who, he stated, “somehow coaxed a tune out of me as a part of the boys chorus in junior high school. She was a great and delightful and lovely teacher.”

The Light Divine, 305 (Text)