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Show j KARL SIMMONS WILLES, ! young Salt Laker whose j death took place yesterday. I j YOUNG SALT LAKER IS CU1EDJY DEATH Karl Simmons Willes Dies of Blood Poisoning After Brief Illness. Kail Simmons Willes, son of Mr. and Mrs. William .1. Willes, senior member of the Willes-Horne Drug company,1 died yesterday after a ten days' illness of blood poisoning. Young Willes was 25 years old and at the time he was taken ill was teller of the Farmers' and Stock-growers' Stock-growers' bank. He was born In Salt Lake on August t3, 1893. His entire life was spent In this city, save when he was employed for a brief period with the First national- bank of Pocatello and when he filled a mission for the Mormon church In Europe. He began his Salt Lake career as an employee of the Utah State National bank. While in Pocatello Poca-tello he met Miss La Vern Chapman, who became his wife. Mr. Willes is survived by his wife, mother, father and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. 1-1. Fred Egan, Jr., Mrs. John D. Glbbs, William Simmons Willes, who is stationed at Camp Kearny and who wired last evening that he Is on his way home on furlough to be present at his brother's funeral, and Joseph Jo-seph Simmons Willes. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. .Chapman, parents of Mrs. Karl Willes, and the Misses Anna and Ruth Chapman, sisters, arrived last night from PocateUo. Others coming are Mrs. Riey D. Jones, grandmother of Mrs. Willes, of Wellfi-ville. Wellfi-ville. Utah; Mrs. Ri Reynolds of Boise, Idaho; Jesse Willes of Joseph, Utah; Walter J. Willes of Paradise, Utah; Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Peck, Ely, Nev.; Mrs. F. N. Victor, Rupert, Idaho; Mrs. Ernma Stevens and Attorney R. H. Jones of Brlgham City, Utah. Services will be held in the Twentieth ward L. D. S. chapel at 3 o'clock tomorrow, to-morrow, to which friends are Invited. Bishop C. C. Neslen will direct the service and a beautiful musical programme pro-gramme will be rendered by Professors John J. McClellan, Willard E. Weihe and Anthony C. Lund, the ward choir singing sing-ing the opening and closing hymns. It is expected that President Charles W. Penrose will address the assemblage, and burial will be in the City cemetery. Mrs. W. J. Willes recently returned from California, where she went In quest of health. |