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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Elma G. Farnsworth, the widow of television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, has died at 97.
She died Thursday in Bountiful of natural causes. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Inventor Philo Farnsworth created an early television system and helped develop radar. His pioneering work on television largely went unrecognized until after his death in 1971, when Elma Farnsworth began a years-long campaign to have him recognized as the inventor of the technology.
She was raised on a farm in Vernal until the family moved to Provo. She met Philo Farnsworth during her sophomore year in high school. They were engaged on her birthday in February 1926 and married three months later.
"Distant Vision," Elma Farnsworth's book about her life with her husband, was published in 1990.
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Information from: Deseret Morning News, http://www.deseretnews.com
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