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Show OSCAR STEPHENSON DIES AFTER ILLNESS Oscar F. Stephenson died April 16 in a Cedar City hospital, hos-pital, after a long illness. He was born July 24, 1892, in Cable County, W. Va., to Jesse Payton and Mary Alice Davis Stephenson. He married Vella Gillins Browner, Nov. 18, 1938. A retired Union Pacific engineer, en-gineer, he was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, also the B of L E, and the Union Pacific Old Timers Club. He was a veteran of World War I. Surviving are his widow, Cedar Ce-dar City; a son and daughter, Harley J. Browner, Norwalk, Calif, and Mrs. Russell (Mau-rine) (Mau-rine) Kearney, Kearns; a sister, Mrs. Fred (Anna) Hammer, Muncie, Ind.; also nine grandchildren. grand-children. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted at 1 p .m. Saturday in the Cedar City Third Ward Chapel. Burial will be in Milford Mil-ford City Cemetery. Friends may call at the Southern Utah Mortuary in Cedar City two hours prior to services. The family requests contributions contribu-tions to the Nurses Scholarship Fund of the Milford Valley Memorial Me-morial Hospital in lieu of flowers. |