As a businessman, Milan Dale Smith was an innovator in the food industry. As a government official, he worked in the Eisenhower administration. And as a Latter-day Saint, he spent more than a decade presiding over a stake stretching from Wilmington, Delaware, down to Richmond, Virginia, and out as far as West Virginia.
“Before sunup every Sunday, Dad was off somewhere in the vast mid-Atlantic building the kingdom of God," said Elder Gordon H. Smith, a former U.S. senator, current Area Seventy for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of 10 children born to Milan and Jessica Smith. “He was a pioneer of the church in Washington, D.C.”
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