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Foster Merlen Kunz

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Foster Merlen Kunz

Birth
Bern, Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA
Death
10 Nov 1981 (aged 65)
Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Burial
Kaysville, Davis County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
7-4-A-3
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"Foster Merlen Kunz, 65, a vice president of the Marriott Corporation for 29 years before his retirement in May, died of leukemia Tuesday at his home in Sandy, Utah.

A vice president of industrial relations for the corporation, Mr. Kunz had served as vice president for governmental affairs for the past two years. Before joining Marriott, he was a special agent for the FBI for 10 years.

Mr. Kunz was born in Bern, Idaho. He graduated from Utah State Agricultural College and earned a master's degree from Yale University.

He was a former resident of Potomac and a former bishop and stake high commissioner of the D.C. Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Survivors include his wife, the former Helena Millard, whom he married in 1942, and a son, Blair L., of Sandy; two other sons, Gary M., of Windsor, Colo., and Milan F., of Salt Lake City; a daughter, Diane Smith of Windsor; two brothers, DeVire (Bud) Kunz of Encinitas, Calif., and Kenneth K. Kunz of Salt Lake City; a sister, Merlyn Jensen of Montpelier, Idaho, and three grandchildren."

Courtesy of the Washington Post, The (DC) 11/13/1981
"Foster Merlen Kunz, 65, a vice president of the Marriott Corporation for 29 years before his retirement in May, died of leukemia Tuesday at his home in Sandy, Utah.

A vice president of industrial relations for the corporation, Mr. Kunz had served as vice president for governmental affairs for the past two years. Before joining Marriott, he was a special agent for the FBI for 10 years.

Mr. Kunz was born in Bern, Idaho. He graduated from Utah State Agricultural College and earned a master's degree from Yale University.

He was a former resident of Potomac and a former bishop and stake high commissioner of the D.C. Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Survivors include his wife, the former Helena Millard, whom he married in 1942, and a son, Blair L., of Sandy; two other sons, Gary M., of Windsor, Colo., and Milan F., of Salt Lake City; a daughter, Diane Smith of Windsor; two brothers, DeVire (Bud) Kunz of Encinitas, Calif., and Kenneth K. Kunz of Salt Lake City; a sister, Merlyn Jensen of Montpelier, Idaho, and three grandchildren."

Courtesy of the Washington Post, The (DC) 11/13/1981

Bio by: Bruce J. Black



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