HEART ATTACK ENDS LIFE OF MISSION HEAD G. G S. S Romney Dies During Visit to Rockford Ill George S. S Romney 61 Cl president of or the northern states mission o othe of the L. L D. D S. S church and ond prominent educator died suddenly Thursday morning of an acute heart attack In Rockford Ill III where he had gone to organize a new church branch Word of ot his death reached his hisson hisson hisson son Marlon Marion G. G Romney Salt Lake City attorney shortly after alter he succumbed succumbed suc sue at a. a m. m Mr Romney had served as ns president president president dent of ot the northern states mission since July 1931 His headquarters were ere at Chicago Born Barn in St St. George November 12 1874 1574 the well known became became be be- came caine an ardent church worker when a 1 youth H He also was a prominent prominent prominent nent educator in Utah and Idaho and was president of ot Ricks academy academy academy acad acad- emy later Ricks college in Rexburg Rexburg Rexburg Rex- Rex burg Idaho from 1917 1911 until 1930 Printers Printer's Helper He moved his parents Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hill Hll Romney to St. St Johns Ariz in 1881 where his father established a printing office in which Mr Romney Romney Romney Rom Rom- ney worked as a printers devil when he was 11 years old The church official was baptized into the faith when he was 8 years of ot age Baptismal ceremonies were conducted on a n cold November morning in the Little Colorado river With his mother he was taken to old Mexico by wagon In 1886 and the the- family settled In Colonia Juarez The family was WI was forced forced to fleo flee from Mexico in 1912 when the rebel army of f General Salazar launched a revolution Mr Romney Romney Romney Rom Rom- ney crossed to the United States at atEI atEl atEl El EI Paso Texas Later the family went vent to Los Angeles where the churchman lived for a year moving to Oakley Idaho In 1913 Teaching Teaching- Career Mr Romney began a teaching career career career ca ca- ca- ca reer at Cassia academy After Alter S 'S P S' S St t S r j i S George S. S Romney teaching caching for three years ears he moved to Salt Lake City In 1916 and graduated graduated graduated from the University of oC Utah Utahn in n 1917 moving to Rexburg the same year to become president of ot Ricks licks academy He He- attended Stanford Stan Stan- ford university and graduated in 1922 with an M. M A. A degree Mr Romney was ordained a deacon deacon deacon dea dea- con in Mexico where whore he also was elevated to a priest and an elder He ie was ordained a seventy in hi Salt Lake Lak ake City and latera later a high priest by bythe bythe the he late A. A W. W Ivins of the first residency presidency He served a a. as alternate high couns counselor Jor of ot Juarez stake land and also Juarez stake take superintendent of the ho Y M M. 1 M. M L A. A from 1908 to 1912 He was superintendent of ot the church Sunday schools in Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles in 1912 Later he ho was appointed alternate high counselor in Fremont stake and was set apart as stake high counselor In n March 1924 and made stake take president in September 1925 He le was released from this position to o serve as ns mission president in the northern states Realties hi hI widow Mr Mrs Mu Redd Hominy Romney of ot Chicago Mr Homney lj Li sur sur- lv by the following children Mrs Charles Charte Clark CUrk Oakley Idaho Marion Marlon G G. G tommy Salt Lake City Mu Lurlen Chancy Los Lo Angeles Angelu Antone Anton K Romney Mrs e KUby y Ida a ho to r M Mrs Jr Jasmine Edmunds tn b Chicago le Leona omney C Chicago Mrs nr Maurine J Johnson Ka and da Jaunts and Merlyn Mertyn rn Romney I of t Provo Surviving are arc the following brothers and L. L tt sisters liters D D. I S S. S B Bishop ward r f. f Gaskell Mrs Caroline Homney Romney e Lyring y of fn t the Yale YaleI ArIL ArtL Thomas Thom C C. Logan L Juntus Romney Salt Salt Lake City Park Romney homney Salt alt Lake e City Mrs Emma Erring r hatcher Thatcher Arts Arlt Mrs ra Ethel Peterson eTe o Phoe Phoe- nIx Ix Ariz Aria Mn Mrs Ida Mesa Men Mrs Lulu ulu C Miles eI A A. A Romney o Colonia nl Juarez Juares ciz MeL Mex Mrs Minnie n Farr Berkeley CaL Cat Van Vau Romney Dun DUll can ait Aria Ariz Leo Homney New York Tork o Eu- Eu cne Romney Jek gu Duncan Aria Ariz eve Vernon Vemon lt Rom itom I ey Salt Lake a City Mm Mrs Ann Clayson Lake k Shore re reah Utah ah Mrs Mattie Mattle D. D Drown Brown Lake City OrIn N r. Romney Colonia Dublan Mex Mrs trl Ivy Richardson Provo Irs IrL Ella Colonia Dublan Dublin Mrs Mu rma Erma Haymore Salt take loae City and l Frank Romney Colonia Dublan Arrangements were being made for tor fu fu- services In Chicago Friday after which the body will b be brought broucht to Salt Lake City Where services Ice wilt will be conducted