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Pamela Atkinson, Utah’s champion for the homeless, remembered as ‘larger than life’
In a church full of people who came to honor Pamela Atkinson’s memory at her funeral Friday — a crowd that included Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other prominent dignitaries — Ed Snoddy said he had “many stories” from the more than 30 years he spent alongside her helping Utah’s most vulnerable. “But this one has stayed with me a long, long time,” he said. 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. That day, “we went to see our homeless friend, Chuck,” ...
