Weissenbach, Waltraud, 1919-1985

Dale Thompson Fletcher (1929-1990) was a Mormon art professor in Utah.

Dale Thompson Fletcher was born on February 21, 1929 in Logan, Utah to Calvin Fletcher and Clara Irene Thompson. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he served a mission for the Church in Northern California. Fletcher received his bachelor's degree from Utah State University, and his master's from the University of California, Berkeley. He married Leone Woolley on June 6, 1962 in the Logan Utah Temple, and they had five children. A painter, Fletcher taught art at South Cache High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also taught art and art history at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1965 to 1978. In 1979 he and his wife were divorced; he later married Darlene Linford at St. Luke's of the Mountain in La Crescenta, California. After resigning from BYU he pursued pyramidology, working as a teacher-author at the Rutherford Institute of Pyramidology.

Waltraud Weissenbach (1919-1985) was a Mormon artist in Austria.

Waltraud Weissenbach was born on August 7, 1919 in Spittal an der Drau, Austria. She studied graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1943 to 1945. She began teaching art classes in Spittal in 1948 to help support her family. In 1960, she was taught by missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and joined the Church. She died in Spittal on May 10, 1985.

From the guide to the Waltraud Weissenbach papers, 1975-1978, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)