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Pamela Atkinson, Utah’s champion for the homeless, remembered as ‘larger than life’

By Utah News Dispatch · October 30, 2026 · 1 min read
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News Story In a church full of people who came to honor Pamela Atkinson’s memory at her funeral Friday — a crowd that included Utah Gov. Atkinson, he said, invited then-Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to come with the Volunteers of America’s outreach team to check in on people experiencing homelessness.

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