SALT LAKE CITY, UT : Mormon senior missionary from Utah killed in Iowa car crash on Friday, 27th December, 2019

A 66-year-old man who was serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was killed in a Christmas day car crash in Iowa, church officials said Friday.

Craig L. Meyocks died Thursday after the crash, church spokesman Daniel Woodruff said in a statement. Meyocks’ wife, Brenda Meyocks, was injured in the car accident but is expected to recover.The couple had been serving as senior missionaries in the Illinois Nauvoo mission since March 2019. They are from Dammeron Valley, Utah.

The crash occurred in a rural part of the state about 40 miles south of Iowa City when a man tried to cross the highway and smashed into the Meyocks’ car, according to a report from the Utah Highway Patrol. The collision sent the Meyocks’ car into a ditch nearby the highway.

Craig and Brenda Meyocks, 64, were taken to a hospital in Iowa City.

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