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As Utah cases spike, advocate dies of COVID-19 in the veterans’ home that bears his name

(Stephen Holt | courtesy of the American Legion) William Christoffersen, a World War II veteran who served in the American Legion for 75 years, is shown here in 2013 at the renaming of the Salt Lake Veterans Home, in his honor. Christoffersen, who represented Utah on the Legion's national board for nearly 50 years, died in that home Sunday, May 31, 2020, at 93, from complications from COVID-19.