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Show W. R. SUMNICHT IS VICTIM OF SHORT ILLNESS FRIDAY Services Held In Maswiic Temple In Salt Lake Monday Scores of friend paid final tribute tri-bute to the memory of William Ray Sumnicht Monday afternoon when funeral services were held in the Masonic temple In Salt Lake City. Mr. Sumnicht died Friday Fri-day afternoon in St. Mark's hospital, hospi-tal, where he waa taken Tuesday night for treatment for pneumonia. pneumon-ia. His death came as a shock to his friends and family. Earl Nepple, worshipful master of the F. & A. M. Canyon lodge No. 13, of which Mr. Sumnicht was a member, was In charge of the services. Reverend Elmer I. Goshen gave a brief and comforting comfort-ing talk. John Dahlstrotn spoke of the fine personal characteristics characteris-tics Mr. Sumnicht possessed. Dur- ing his six years on the town board he waa known to his associates asso-ciates and to Mayor Dahlstrora, with whom he served for that period, as a loyal, willing and conscientious con-scientious worker. Acquaintances appreciated his kindliness and friendliness and knew him as an upstanding citizen. Miss Virginia Colyar, accompanied accom-panied by Robert Colyar, sang two solos, "The Holy City" and "Till We Meet". Pallbearers were Dave Brisk, Ren Nichols, William Robertson, William Jensen, Joseph Jos-eph Berger and D. A. Bruno. He was born in Carbondale, Colorado, Co-lorado, April 24, 1891, a son of August and Hannah Numbers Sumnicht. He came to Bingham in 1913, where he worked as an employe of the Bingham and Garfield Gar-field railroad for 23 years. He was a conductor for the B. & O. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Esther Edwards Sumnicht and seven sons and daughters, Russell, James, Eugene, Howard, Mildred, Lucille and Nancy all of Bingham; his mother, Mrs. Hannah Han-nah N. Sumnicht of Loma, Colorado; Colo-rado; a brother, Lester Sumnicht, of Mldvale; five sisters, Mrs. Mol-lie Mol-lie Arbuckle of Frulta, Colo.; Mrs. Jessie Oibbs of Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo.; Mrs. Mato Half ley of Pomona, Calif.; Mrs. Frlda Sha- dlfl at Ran rpvn unit Mn Fna Branch of Loma, Colorado, Interment was in the Masonic plot at Mt. Olivet cemetery. |
