Patti Edwards, surrounded by family stand as the casket is taken out as family, friends and former team members gather to honor former BYU football coach Lavell Edwards at a memorial service at the Provo Convention Center on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017.
PROVO — As far as Elder Jeffrey R. Holland is concerned, one of the greatest emissaries for Brigham Young University was legendary football coach LaVell Edwards.
“Only the university’s namesake, good old Brother Brigham himself, may be the only better-known link in the nation to this university than is the name of LaVell Edwards,” Elder Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Friday night at the public memorial service for Edwards, 86, who died Dec.