FOLLAND, LORIN G., JR., April 12, 1920 – December 7, 2004

Lorin G. Folland, Jr., age 84, Utah artist and art educator, died December 7, 2004 of natural causes. He was born April 12, 1920 to Lorin G. Folland, Sr. and Naomi Williams Folland in Malad, Idaho. In 1923 his family moved to Salt Lake City. He graduated from South High in 1937. While serving an LDS mission in 1939 in the Pacific North West, he became the first missionary to work year-around in Alaska, organizing the first branches in Ketchikan, Juneau and Anchorage. He received a BA in Social Science from the University of Utah in 1947.

In January, 1942 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in World War II. He was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Field Itinerary School in Ft. Sill, OK, and fought in the Phillippians Island with the 32nd Red Arrow Infantry Division where he received a Purple Heart. Following the war, he returned to the University of Utah and received his MA from the College of Fine Arts. His graduate work was completed at the Art Student’s League in New York City and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

For 47 years he taught drawing and painting at the U of U College of Fine Arts, Olympus High School and BYU S.L. Center at Pioneer Craft House. He owned his own studio, The Artist Studio, where one of his important commissions by Ogden City honoring President David O. McKay, was the large mural placed at the inside entrance of the McKay D. Hospital. For several years he served as director of the Tiffin Room Art Gallery at ZCMI.

He served as a High Priest in the Yale Second Ward in Bonneville Stake, and held earlier positions in the Ensign Stake, East Mill Creek Stake, Wells Stake and Manhattan Ward in New York City.

He is survived by his sister, Betty F. Evans (the late Paul H. Evans) and eight nieces and nephews: Dianna (John) Nelson, Steven Folland (Linda) Evans, Kathryn (the late Jared Campbell), Christine (Roger) Perry, Julie (Dr. Robert) Briggs, Michael (Libbie) Evans, Thomas (Susan) Evans and Lorah (Stan) Maeser and their families. He will be remembered by his 34 grand nieces and nephews and 34 great grand nieces and nephew, and many friends and hundreds of former art students.

Services will be held on December 11, 2004 at Bonneville Stake Center, Salt lake City. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.