Death
Maxwell died in his native Salt Lake City, Utah, from leukemia. He was originally diagnosed with leukemia in 1996, eight years before his death. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. According to President of the Church, Gordon B. Hinckley, Maxwell "accomplished more in these last eight years than most men do in a lifetime." Maxwell was survived by his wife, the former Colleen Hinckley, 4 children, 24 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. With the death ten days later of fellow apostle David B. Haight, the vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve caused by their deaths were filled by Dieter F. Uchtdorf and David A. Bednar.
The BYU Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts was renamed the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship after Maxwell's death.
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Grave marker of Neal A. Maxwell.
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