Don Gale: Thanks for your friendship, Jon

Of course, everyone who met Jon Huntsman was convinced she or he was a friend of Jon’s.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jon and Karen Huntsman, along with their son Mark, attend the dedication of the Primary Children's and Families' Cancer Research Center on June 21, 2017.Of course, everyone who met Jon Huntsman was convinced she or he was a friend of Jon’s. He smiled at you with that incredible Huntsman smile. He looked at you with those friendly eyes. And he reached out to shake your hand as if he had been waiting for you. (Recently, when his right arm became swollen, discolored and painful, he extended his left hand.) It seemed as if he needed to connect verbally, visually and…