(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former Rep. Lawanna “Lou” Shurtliff, D-Ogden, who passed away Dec. 2020, is honored in the House of Representatives during the start of the 2021 legislative session at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021.
After being raised in California and spending a year in Arizona, Utah is the latest stop on Rebekah's tour of the Great American West. Everywhere she goes, she lugs along a pile of DVDs, more books than sense and an abiding love for storytelling in every imaginable media.