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Show GEORGE C. MURDOCK DIES IN SALT LAKE George Carlos Murdoch Jr., 72, died April 4 in a Salt Lake hospital of complications following an op-! op-! oration performed a month ago. One of Beaver's leading citizens, he was active in church, civic and political affair's. He served in the Utah State Legislature in 1942 and was several times a delegate to the Republican State Conventions. Mr. Murdock was born Jan. 18, 1887, "in Beaver, a son of George ' t - A, ; Sv? j George C. Murdock C. and Caroline Farnsworth Murdock. Mur-dock. On June 10, 1912, he married mar-ried Kate Hatch in Beaver. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. His . early education was in the Beaver schools. He completed high school at the Murdock Academy Acad-emy and attended the University of Utah. He twice served as mayor of Beaver, and was an ardent booster of the community, holding active membership iii civic clubs and other booster organizations. He began his business career trucking fruits and vegetables, and coal, ran a bus from Beaver to the Murdock Academy, and was driver of the first school bus serving serv-ing the Beaver public schools. He later owned and operated a groc-' ery store and garage, and had owned and rented several business buildings on Main Street in Beaver. Beav-er. He retired seven years ago. He was an accomplished musician musi-cian and enjoyed playing the piano for dance orchestras, accompanying accompany-ing vocalist and instrumentalists, and playing for church and social gatherings. He was a member of the LDS Church and served a two-year mission mis-sion in the Central States, and in 1946 with his wife served a - six-month six-month mission in Oklahoma. He had been a Sunday School superintendent, high councilman, worked in the MIA. the Adult Aaronic Priesthood, and at the time of his death was teaching a Gospel Doctrine class in Sunday School. He was sponsor of the "Youth Club," a group of older friends who met weekly and took many trips together. He had traveled extensively in the United States, visiting places of church and government gov-ernment interest. Survivors include his widow; three sons, Carlos, Chase H. and Sumner Murdock, Beaver; three daughters, Mrs. Frank (Kathryn) Hiser.-Freeport, III; Mrs. Dwight (Mae) Carter, Milford; and Mrs. Clark (Carol) Smith, Beaver; 23 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; and three brothers, R. C, Franklin J., and Orrice Murdock, Mur-dock, Salt Lake. |