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Show Early Pioneer Passes Away On The Coast The Rev. N. E. Cemensen, 77, former for-mer Presbyterian minister in Utah and California, died in' a San Francisco Fran-cisco hospital Thursday afternoon following an emercency operation-He operation-He had been in failing health rince suffering a paralytic stroke in 1922. The Rev. Mr. Clemensen, a.i'e of the first students of Wasatch academy, acad-emy, graduated from the C'ilegiate Institute, now Wentnvnster college, in Salt Lake City, lnj.885, and from McCormlck seminary in Chicago in 1889. He traveled and lectured extensively ex-tensively through the eastern states under the Presbyterian board of missions and was largely instru mental In securing funds for Fink's hall, the presesit girls' dormitory at Wasatch Academy. He served as pastor of the Presbyterian Pres-byterian church in R:chfield and in Salina after his return to Utah tn 1889, and was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Logan from 1895 to 1909. He ten went to the First church of San Awaelmo, California, Cali-fornia, remaining until 1919, when he returned to Mount Pleasant to live with his sister, Mrs. Malvlna Crane. Since 1927 he had lived in the Masonic home at Decoto, California. Cali-fornia. He had been a member of the Masonic order for more than thirty years. He was born in Langeland!, Denmark, Den-mark, December 10, 1856. He came to Mount Pleasant in 1862 with his parents, Ole IN. and Marie Madsen Clemensen, and three brothers and sisters. The family lived In the pioneer fort during their first year's residence here, the father dying a year after their arrival. In 1888 he married Miss Jennie Stoops, a native of PennsylvaniB, who was teaching in the Pre.by. terian mission school in Manti. Sttc died In 1933. Surviving are a son, Captain Wendell Clemensen, Fort Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kansas; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Pecheco, San Francisco; Fran-cisco; Mrs. Florence Flannigan and Mrs. Marjorie Towie, San Anselmn, California; a caster, Mrs. Malvlna Crane, Mount Pleasant; a brother, George Clemensen, Salt Lake City, and five grandchildren. The body will be brought to Mt. Pleasant for funeral services in the First Presbyterian church at 2 p. m. Monday under the auspices of Damascus lodge No. 10, F. & A. M. The Rev. N. R. Smith, paster of the local church, will deliver the eulogy. Interment will be in Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant City cemetery under direction of the Uresbach funeral home. Friends may call at the home of Mrs. Malvina Crane Monday prloi to the serviced. |