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Show Funeral Services Friday for Former City Mayor, Attorney Glen Sumsion ' " l 1 t I r 1 i I- L.,.. lz: - j Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Friday at 11 a.m. in the Fourth-Tenth ward chapel, for Attorney Glen W. Sumsion, 61, former mayor of Springville, Spring-ville, who died unexpectedly Tuesday morning, at his home of a heart ailment. Bishop Glenn Tipton of the Fourth ward, will be in charge of the services. Friends may call at the Wheeler Mortuary this evening (Thursday) from 7 until 9 p.m., and at the family residence, resi-dence, 310 North Second East, before the services. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Sumsion was born in Springville November 15, 1897, a son of Willis and Phoebe Ma-linda Ma-linda Singleton Sumsion. He has made his home here practically prac-tically his entire life, taking prominent part in civic and church affairs. After graduation from the Springville high school a s president of the senior class,' he attended the Utah State, Agriculture College, now the Attorney Glen W. Sumsion for whom services will be held Friday in the Fourth-Tenth Fourth-Tenth ward chapel. USU, Logan, graduating in 1923. Two years later he received re-ceived a degree from the School Sch-ool of Business Administration University of New York. After teaching school in Morgan; Mor-gan; Preston, Idaho; Davis county and in Springville high school, he attended the University Univer-sity of Utah, graduating in 1937 with an LI. B. degree. He was admitted to the bar in 1938. He served as Springville city attorney for 15 years and was presently acting attorney for Mapleton City. For a number of years he was associated with Attorney Arnold Roylance in the firm Roylance and Sumsion Sum-sion and more recently has been in partnership with his son City Attorney Robert J. Sumsion. A member of the Kiwanis club, he has served as president vice-president and a member of the board. He has also been Commander of the Springville Post American Legion and was at one time president of the Library board. He had also served as judge advocate of the State Department of the American Amer-ican Legion. With interests in farming and livestock, he was a member mem-ber of the Utah State Farm Bureau. He has been secretary and a member of the board of directors of the Springville Irrigation Co., and the Springville Spring-ville Irrigation District for a number of years. He also served ser-ved as president of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. Especially active in church affairs, he served eleven years in Kolob Stake presidency before be-fore the stake was divided and has held positions in practically practical-ly all auxiliary organizations of the church. He was presently present-ly president of the Springville Stake High Priests. During his early life, he filled an LDS mission in the Eastern States. - For many years he had had a hobby of writing to missionaries mission-aries and the night before he passed away he wrote to one of a number with whom he regularly corresponded. He married Clara Johnson June 18, 1924, in the Salt Lake Temple. His wife and three sons, Attorney Robert J. Sumsion, Sum-sion, Springville; Owen and Richard Sumsion of Salt Lake City, survive; also seven granddaughters grand-daughters and his mother Mrs. Malinda Sumsion, a brother Howard Sumsion and sister Rea Straw, all of Springville. |