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Show William A. Miller Funeral services were held Wednesday afernoon in the Beaver Second Ward chapel for William Archibald Miller, 82, former Beaver County resident, resi-dent, who died Friday in In-glewood, In-glewood, Calif. The prayer at the home, preceding pre-ceding the services, was offered by Mrs. Vena Wilson of Mil-ford. Mil-ford. Grant Esplin conducted the services. Prelude and postlude music I were played by Mae C. White, j The invocation was offered by ifc . .. . - '. k .4. r i I I 1 f ' William A Miller Walter Blackner, Bishop of the Greenville Ward. Musical numbers were by a male quartet, Kent Hansen, Kent Morgan, Sherman Carter and Hal Lund, accompanied by Clara Carter; a violin duet by Macel Horton and Linda Prince, accompanied by Eldira Jones; and a vocal duet by Hal and Nell Smith, accompanied -by Mrs. Carter.. Speakers, each of whom made appropriate remarks, were S. Taylor Farnsworth and A. Carlos Car-los Murdock of Beaver, and Parley B. Fisher of Milford. Bishop Chase Murdock pronounced pro-nounced the benediction, and the grave, in the Greenville Cemetery, was " dedicated by Glen Blackner. Pallbearers, nephews of the deceased, were Fletcher Barton, Amasa Barton, Arthur Black, ner, Dan Davis, Howard Hurst and Presley Whornham. Relatives and close friends assisted with the flowers, under direction of Mrs. Fletcher Barton. Bar-ton. Mr. Miller had been postmaster postmas-ter at Milford for 10 years, and owned a grocery store - at Milford Mil-ford before assuming the duties du-ties of Beaver County Clerk in 1931. He was county clerk for 20 years, retiring in 1949, when he moved to California. Earlier, at Greenville, he had been a farmer, and was employed em-ployed by the Union Pacific, and -had also served as Beaver County Assessor and road supervisor. su-pervisor. For the L D S Church, he had served as secretary of the Greenville Sunday School, secretary sec-retary of the Y M M I A, ward clerk and Elder in Greenville; Sunday School superintendent, second counsellor, first counsel- j lor, bishop, high priest, and patriarch of the Beaver Stake. Mr. Miller was born in Greenville March 11, 1875, to David and Margaret Fife Miller. Mil-ler. He married.Winifred Richards, Rich-ards, Aug. 14, 1895, in the St. George Temyle. She died in 1948. Surviving are a son and -two daughters, Merrill W. Miller of Black Rock, Mrs. Richard H. fjuanila) Nelson, Inglewood, Calif., and Mrs. James F. (Aleene) Farmer of Salt Lake; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. |