Memorial services to be held for former Rep. Mia Love

SALT LAKE CITY — Memorial services are set to take place two weeks after former Utah Rep. Mia Love died Saturday after a yearslong fight with brain cancer.

According to Love’s obituary, services will begin on April 6.

“On Sunday, April 6, Mia will lie in state from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda. The public is invited to attend,” the obituary states.

The public is also invited to attend a memorial service on April 7 that will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion on the University of Utah campus, located at 1780 S. Campus Dr., in Salt Lake City.

Instead of flowers, the Love family encouraged making a contribution to The Robert Preston Tisch Brain Tumor Center or the Huntsman Cancer Institute per the obituary. 

Love’s daughter announced on X on March 1 that Love’s cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, was no longer responding to treatments.

Her death was later announced through an X post on Sunday when Love’s family said the former congresswoman passed peacefully at 49 years old, after a three-year-long battle.

“With grateful hearts filled to overflowing for the profound influence of Mia on our lives, we want you to know that she passed away peacefully today,” the family said. “She was in her home surrounded by family.”

Love is the sixth person to lie in state at the Utah State Capitol, and the first since late Sen. Orrin Hatch was laid to rest in May 2022.