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Memorial service plans announced for former Utah Congresswoman Mia Love

By Staff | Mar 27, 2025

Evan Cobb, Daily Herald file photo

U.S. Rep. Mia Love poses for a portrait at the Daily Herald office on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in Provo.

The family of former Utah Congresswoman Mia Love, who lost her battle with brain cancer Sunday, has revealed funeral plans.

A public viewing will be held April 6, when Love will lie in state in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., her family announced Tuesday.

The public is also invited to attend memorial services the next day, April 7, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Institute of Religion on the University of Utah campus, located at 1780 S. Campus Drive in Salt Lake City, beginning at 10 a.m.

Love died at her Saratoga Springs home Sunday surrounded by family and loved ones after a three-year battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 49 years old.

Born on Dec. 6, 1975, to Haitian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, Love was the youngest of three children.

After graduating from the University of Hartford in Connecticut, she moved to Utah and married her husband, Jason, who she met while they were attending college, according to an obituary shared by her family.

Years later, Love would go on to serve on the Saratoga Springs City Council and was eventually elected as mayor in 2009 before heading the nation’s capital to represent Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Mia had many superpowers, including using her voice to paint pictures of possibilities. Her voice could create a vision that sight and mind alone could not see. People in groups large and small not only heard, but felt her words in ways that lifted and transformed,” her obituary reads.

Love’s family said that while the untimely death may have physically taken her away from the earth, her voice and spirit will live on.

Love is survived by her husband, Jason; daughters Alessa (Lincoln Archibald) and Abigale; son, Peyton; parents, Jean Maxime and Marie Bourdeau; siblings, Jean Mark and Cynthia; granddaughter, Mera Archibald; and other friends and family.