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Show Wayne L. Bennion Dies Following Short Illness i", . r V yhwulijlf ItrfifWr Mil ii mtaaMMiMlwJ Wayne L. lieimioii Residents of Cedar City were shocked Tuesday to learn of the death of Wayne Lindsay Bennton. 36, associate professor of business administration at the Utah State Agricultural College, and former popular member of the Branch Agricultural Ag-ricultural College faculty. Mr. Ben-nion Ben-nion died at 1:30 A. M. Tuesdav in a Salt Lake hospital of acuie nephritis, following a short illness His illness resulted from a recent injury that had not been considered consider-ed serious. Mr. Bennion had been associate professor at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college since 1940. He was born in Salt Lake City March 17, 1906, and was a son of Milton Bennion, dean emeritus of the school of edu:ation at the University Univer-sity of Utah, and Mrs. Cora Lindsay Lind-say Bennion. He attended the L. D. S. high school and in 1929 graduated from the school of business at the University Uni-versity of Utah. In 1932 he com pleted his formal education at the graduate school of business administration ad-ministration at Stanford university, univer-sity, California. For three years he served as chaplain of the Fort Douglas area CCC camps and In 1935 accepted a position on the faculty of the Branch Agricultural college at Cedar Ce-dar City. At the branch college he was in charge of the business department and served as dean of men. Mr. Bennion fulfilled a mission for the L. D. S. church to Hawaii from 1925 to 1927 and while in Cedur City was a member of the Parowan Stake high council of the (hurch. At Logan he was In the Sunday school superintendent of the Cache county stake. He married lone Spencer, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Spencer, in the Salt Lake L. D. . temple on June 7, 1936. Surviving are his widow, his parents, par-ents, four brothers, M. Lynn Bennion, Ben-nion, Lowell L. Bennion ani Vaughan L. Bennion of Salt Lake City, and Grant M. Bennion o; Siwkane, Wash., three sisters, Mrs. Claire Jones of Cedar City, Mrs. Muurine Folsom of Chile. South America, and Mrs. Frances Morgan of Albuquerque, N. M. |