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Show Cedar City Tourist Camp Owner Dies In California Wilford Day, 71. life-long resident of Iron County and one of the county's most active citizens in church and civic affairs, and pioneer pio-neer in the development of sheep breeding and diversified farming, died at the family home on Day Farms, Just outside of Parowan, early Monday morning, October 20, following an illness of four months' duration. Born in Kanarraville on May 8, 1870, a son of Thomas and Charlotte Clark Day, pioneers of southern Utah, he moved to Parowan with his parents when a small boy where he has made his home since. On July 13, 1898 he married Elizabeth Scott who survives him. Mr. Day's public service career dates back to the beginning of the century and includes numerous offices, of-fices, both elective and appointive, starting with the election to the Iron County school board in 191)0 and continuing until he retired as state senator from Iron and Wasn-lngton Wasn-lngton counties in 1936. His elective offices have included city, county and state positions, starting with his election to the Board of Iron County Commissioners Commission-ers in 1902 in which capacity he served until 1904. In 1907 he was elected Mayor of Parowan, holding the office until 1909. In 1910 he was elected to the state legislature on the Republican ticket, being reelected re-elected for three terms before 1920. In 1920 he was elected state senator sena-tor from the Eleventh district, serving serv-ing a second term in 1932. Aside from his elective offices, Mr Day held many prominent appointive ap-pointive offices, among them membership mem-bership on the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural college col-lege which position he held from 1926 to 1930. At the time of his death he was a member of the state planning board. During the World War he acted as chairman of the Iron county defense council and was county food administrator and active in Red Cross and liberty bond drives. A lifelong L. D. S. church worker, he was sustained president of Parowan Par-owan stake in 1916, and served until un-til 1920, having been a counselor to two previous stake -presidents. He served on a mission for the church in Great Britlan from 1904 to 1906 and took an active part i.i various church organizations of his ward and stake until the time of his death, acting also as chairman of the building committee for the construction of the Parowan West ward chapel. Equally active in livestock and farming circles, Mr. Day was one of the first in Utah to specialize in the breeding of purebred Rambouil-let Rambouil-let sheep, a field in which he be came renowned throuhout the United States. He also served as president of the American Ram-boulllet Ram-boulllet Sheep Breeders' association In 1937. His purebred Holstein were equally famous throughout Die state. Always interested in farming, Mr. Day was a pioneer in the development de-velopment of Parowan valley's underground un-derground water supply and at one time was considered the state's largest larg-est potato grower. He was also actively ac-tively identified with the construction construc-tion of the Yankee Meadow tunnel of 1600 feet to add to the valley's irrigation supply. During recent years he has devoted his major attention at-tention to diversified farming, pioneering pion-eering many cash crops which have since been generally adapted to the area. In spit of his many public and chuch offices, he found time to become be-come closely associated with the business and industrial development of the county, having been a founder found-er of the Bank of Iron County and director of a number of mercantile Institutions and cooperative undertakings. under-takings. Besides his widow, he is survived by a son and four daughters, Mrs. Wilson Lunt, Mrs. Durham Morris, and W. Scott Day, all of Cedar City, Mrs. Almon H. Orton of Parowan, and Mrs. L. D. White of Fort Stockton, Stock-ton, Texas; 17 grandchildren, three brothers and a sister, Thomas C. and Joseph Day of Salt Lake City; Ephralm Day of Clrcleville and Mrs. Annie Davis of Antimony. Funeral services will be conducted conduct-ed this afternoon In the Parowan East L. D. S. ward chapel by Bishop T. Wendell Bayles of the Parowan West ward and Interment in the Parowan cemetery under the direction dir-ection of the Spilsbury Funeral home. Speakers at the services will include in-clude William Peterson of Logan, director of the Utah State Aricul-tural Aricul-tural college extension division; President David L. Sargent of the Parowan L. D. S. stake; Oscar Hulet of Summit, counselor to Mr. Sargent; Sar-gent; L. E. Tueller, Iron coun'.y agricultural agent; and P. L. Adams of Parowan. Prayer will be offered by Will L. Marsden and Walters C. Mitchell, and the grave dedicated by J. S. Ward. |