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Show .iMelvin Myron Harmon, 3 Dixie Pioneer, anc' ,nt Dies Here Suddenly i Jtjjt Melvin Myron Harmon, 77, died Jr suddenly at his home Tuesday . Mfe:night of an heart attack. He had ;ote:been in seemingly excellent health "jjf'until the moment of his death. K,.0n Monday the family honored y g.his birthday anniversary with an ie finformal dinner after he had spent ,esEthe day working about the lot , ,and chopping wood. Tuesday he )ns:finished cutting his pile of wood, (j. milked his five cows and with ,' his wife, son George and brother i ; Levi, enjoyed a late evening meal, pt The four were chatting around the pt table when he slumped into his chair and was dead before medi-idr medi-idr eal helP could arrive. led . Melvln M- Harmon was born ' , jj. m Salt Lake City April 11, 1861, sup son of. Levi N. and Eunice at Chidister Harmon. When he was , mi T year old e family moved to s ab jhington where he continued to ve? we until he was 30 years of age. fy. During this time he received his , r district school education at Washoe Wash-oe meton and for three years attend-,pi attend-,pi the B.Y.U., obtaining a permit h i w teach school, and he taught in santa Clara, Leeds, Toquerville ecf m New Harmony, liti- 0n May 27, 1891, he married l0,c C. Woodbury, daughter of n N. and Ann Cannon Wood-,s(j: Wood-,s(j: bury, the ceremony being perform-u perform-u : M m the St. George Temple. He raught in St. George the next two pi! Joars, leaving with his wife in , s fie spring of 1893 to fiU a mission W " the Hawaiian Islands. They had sil wined their first child a short fi. "me before leaving for their mis-& mis-& on. On their departure they at-toi at-toi ended the dedication of the Salt we Temple. During the three ,spent in Hawaii two sons ntif ert bom. Their work on the 5edon Pae eight) irMelvin Harmon Death I (Continued from first page) Islands included teaching of the Mission school, caring for the mission mis-sion home gardens and keeping the church plantation accounts. School there was taught all but two months of the year. For the firt 11 months Mrs. Harmon tended the mission kitchen and during the remainder of the three years she kept the store. Both also assisted as-sisted in the religious organizations. organiza-tions. Returning to St. George Mr. Harmon was met by Trustee Francis L. Daggett, who told him a school was reserved for him and he continued to teach until appointed ap-pointed as stake tithing clerk. Later he accepted the management of the old St. George Coop store and he hold this position until; 1903 when he answered a second 1 mission call to Hawaii from which; he returned in 1908. Along w ith j farming he served as Temple recorder re-corder for .") years. For the past four years he has confined his work generally to his town property, pro-perty, while his two younger sons have done the heavier farm work. On their farm they have raised in the past, tons of seedless grapes I and much excellent fruit. I Surviving are his wife, four sons and four daughters and 13 grandchildren. His children are: Ervin W. Harmon, of C.lemlale; Frank N. Harmon, of Fresno. Calif.; Mrs. Walden Ballard, of Rockvillo; Mrs, Lorin llirschi, of C'edar City: Mrs. George Schmutz, Mrs. Phil Foremaster, George and Elmer Harmon, all of St. George. Of his family, one brother, Levi N. Harmon, also survives. Funeral sen-ices will bo held nt 3 p.m. Saturday in the Stake TalH-macle. |