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Show YOUNG RAY LUKE DIES AT SALT LAKE The following account of the death and funeral of Master Ray F. Luke, formerly of Or.mgevllle, but now living in S:dt Lake is taken from Wednesday's D.'seret News. The death is a particularly parti-cularly sad one, hi having lost both parents but very recently and the sympathy sym-pathy of the wiiob of liiwry C unity goes out to the remaining th: ee children, and the other relatives. "At 2 o'clock Monday at tin Thirty-first Thirty-first ward meetingoouse impressive services were held in tribute to the memory of Ray Franklin Luke, who died Saturday, June 28, at 12:3-) a. m.. after having sviferei for three weeks from heart trouble and other complications, complica-tions, j "The services were presided over by , Bishop E. M. Ashtou of the Thirty- . first ward. Invjciti.vi wa olTerej b ' Peter Christensei;. Bishop E. M. Ashton was the first speaker. He spoke of his associations with the family since the time they i moved into the ward, narrating the sad events of the death of the father, ; matin r an! the son Riy, which had oc- j carLd within the latt 14 n---ths, par-i tieu) iriy Ctliiiu attention to a rnanife -nation of Kiv's injther coming to him (Riy) ai:,i tii'.king with him justs week . before his death. Tne bishop spoke in f the highest terms of the faithfulness j With which Ray had responded to; the r . po isibid ies placed upon him, m ecclesiastic .1 matters in the ward and the part he had taken as brother to his two jourger sisters and baby j I roth jr. ! "The closing remarks were made by i Jess? D. Jewkes, w; o by reason of his j close association with the family dur- J ing the past, while living in Orangeville and particularly o.i account of the inti- ' mate companionship that had existed! between Ray and his sons, had much ; difficulty in controlling his feelings, but! in heartfelt expressions paid special tri- ' bute to excellent qu Uities possessed by j Ray and the clean life that he had lived, and how by his amiable nature and ex- ! cellent qualities he had endeared him- j self to all wdth whom he had been as- sociated. The speaker paid tribute to i Mr. and Mrs. Allen, the boy's guardian, j the matron, Mrs. Taylor, his uncles and ! relatives who had come so far to add j their consolation, and to the bereaved ! sisters and the little baby brother. "Among the relatives present at the ' funeral were his uncles' Joseph Luke, I and Robert Davis of Orangeville, Utah, j Floral tribute were presented by nearly I all who were in attendance at the fun- : eral. j "Ray Luke was born Sept. 22nd ,1896 at Ora igeville, Utah, and moved to , Salt Lake in 1911. His father, Benja- I min F. Luke; died April 30, 1912; his mother, Emily J. Luke, died Sept. 20, 1912. From childhood Ray was noted for his otiedience to his parents. After , his father's death he was to his moth r , all that could be expected. To his sis i ters and brother he has likewise been ! 'true. 'Tn school and among his companions ; he was a favorite. Graduating from I the eighth grade he was honored as the f resident of his class. In athletics he was active. He had completed with few exceptions two years of his commercial commer-cial course in high school, having been retarded some on account of illness. "Up to the time of his father's death ' he had had the best of health. The I shock of his father's and mother's death seemad to have unnerved him, having been stricken at the time of his mother's death with typhoid fever, from which, however, he recovered, but not to the perfect health that he had previouly enjoyed. Ray is survived by his sisters, Lucile aged 15, and Alta, aged 13, and brother Elwood, aged 3. The pallbearers were Jos. Luke, Robt. Davis, Edward C x, M irk Tut- -tie, Delos Jewkes, Willis Jewkes, D. Livingston and Kenneth Brown. |
