Noteworthy Utahns who died in 2020: Judges, advocates, artists, athletes, coaches, trailblazers
Figures in government, law, arts, sports, business, academia and social media left us this year. | Updated: Jan. 12, 2021, 4:27 p.m.
(Paul Fraughton | Tribune file photo) Donning an Elizabethan style jester s hat, Sen Tom Hatch, R-Panguitch, makes Fred C. Adams founder of the Utah Shakespeare Festival feel at home in the Senate Chambers as he was honored by both houses of the legislature in 2006. Adams died Feb. 6, 2020, at the age of 89.
Revered jurists and lawyers. Leaders in business and government. Writers and actors. Advocates for Utah veterans, Korean War casualties and the Pacific Islander community. Inspirational coaches from many levels of the game. Former star athletes and a rising football sensation. A woman who blazed trails on the ski slopes, and a woman who defended polygamy, though it meant losing her children.