| Show Gideon W. W Sidwell Funeral services for Gideon W. W Sidwell 58 were held on Monday Jan at 2nd East in Salt Lake City at 11 II am a.m. with graveside services and burial in the ManU Manti City Cemetery under the Hie direction of the Russon Brothers Mortuary Mor Mor- Mr Sidwell was found dead on Thursday January 9 at 7 pm p.m. at his residence at Paxton Ave 1185 South He was born April 14 1905 in Manti to Gideon Wilson and Christena Ellis Sidwell He married Helena Gregerson on Jan 6 1932 in the Manti ManU Temple Survivors are his widow a aon ason ason son on and daughter Lynn W. W Sidwell Bountiful and Mrs Don Joyce Hughes Salt Lake City nine grandchildren two brothers and three sisters Reginald Sidwell Helper Clifford Clif Clif- ford Sidwell Murray Mrs Lee Ellis Davis Brigham City Mrs Paul Ada Anderson Anderson Ander Ander- son Salina Mrs Ray Catherine Catherine Catherine Cath Cath- erine Christensen of Mt Pleasant Services were conducted by Bishop Marion Snow with the following numbers umbers Invocation Oris Sorensen Vocal duet Whispering Hope Sue Christensen and Marvin Sorensen Tribute to o My Uncle Margaret Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet Ann Sidwell Vocal solo In The Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den Marvin Sorensen Remarks Don McGonigle Remarks Bishop Snow Vocal solo O 0 My Iy Father Marvin Sorensen Benediction A. A Leon Miller Graveside services were conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted by Bishops Bishop's Counselor R. R Lynn Nielson who gave a few remarks The g grave ave was c dedicated by Alma Peterson nL L L in ur sail iau Lui LaKe e were Don Nielson Larry Sidwell Sidwell Sidwell Sid Sid- well Lloyd Christensen Ray Miller Ronald Miller and Roger Jensen The Pallbearers in Manti were Rex Christensen Christen ChrIsten- sen Boyd Anderson Don Nielson Nielson Nielson Niel Niel- son Kenneth Miller Ronald Miller and Lewis Miller Refreshments were served at lat the Alden Miller home in Manti Editors Editor's note The follow- follow ng rig tribute was paid to Gideon Gideon Gideon Gid Gid- eon W. W Sidwell at his funeral funer funer- al on January 13 by his niece Margaret Ann Sidwell Sidwell Sidwell Sid Sid- well daughter of Mr and Mrs Reg Sidwell of Helper A LETTER TO MY 1 UNCLE Dear Uncle Gid There comes a time in the life of every man when he must face the dilemma of death The task becomes even more difficult when it is the death of a loved one To us you were a husband a father a brother and a friend and that is why our lot is hard sowe so sowe sowe we meet here to bid you fare fare- well Our hearts are re filled with sorrow and our our shoulders are bearing the heavy weight of grief and we find it difficult to understand But our tears are not those of sorrow but merely of misunderstanding We now find ourselves reminiscing reminiscing reminiscing the past and contemplating contemplating plating the future all the while guided by faith that this understanding will come to replace replace replace re re- place the sorrow It will be a few years before before before be be- fore we meet again but what a short time in in inthe the time of eternity During these years we wont won't forget There are too many things for us to re re- member Well We'll remember the stories of your past your boyhood days in Manti ManU where you spent your happiest years the old Sidwell home there will long help us recall the many days you and your family spent there We Well We'll remember remember remember re re- member the story of the cedar cedar cedar ce ce- dar tree how you watched it grow and develop until just the right time and how you so carefully made from a chest Well We'll think how you loved the outdoors the trees the grass and the mountains We Ve will remember the family reunions reunions reunions re re- unions we spent in the mountains mountains mountains moun moun- and how much you loved the gift of nature God has given us Well We'll think when we see a beautiful tree how you vou not only appreciated it in nature ture but how you could take Lake this tree and carve and cut ut and polish until you made madea a a work of art This was the work Nork of a master of one who not lot only understood how to reate create a design in his mind JUt but how to make this design become a reality Well We'll remember re- re member those hands the lines that came from work and ind stayed there to testify of hat that work Well We'll remember your hours spent pent in working with leather The Fhe tedious hours of slaving ver over intricate designs that can only be done by one who hinks thinks of his work and lovest loves it i t enough to make it to per- per Over the years we have lave received a token of this vork work It too will help us to remember Well We'll remember the many lays days spent at your house We always knew that your home would vo ld be open to us any time j A that your warm would always be ours Well We'll remember those Thanksgiving days there that we spent together as a family You were always the head of that family maybe because e you were older than us o or r maybe because of the stately pride and dignity that always alway s shone from those sparkling eyes For this well we'll go on loving loving lov lov- ing you and for all of those things we remember Behind you you leave a multitude of friends devoted to you because they learned devotion from you and a family united now in sorrow but always alway united in love Butas But Butas as you leave the ties are not broken nor forgotten The devotion will not decrease with the passing of time but instead the ties will grow and become stronger with each passing day One spoke in the wheel has been broken but certainly not forgotten Over the com corn corning coming ing years each spoke will find its way away from the wheel for a while But eventually eventually eventually even even- the spokes will be united again into an eternal wheel that will roll through the sands of time united in faith and the service of ot one one God We the living can only goon go goon goon on living But in our lives we can add a little bit of memory memory memory mem mem- ory We can look at ourselves and find a part of you there W We can remember you as apart a apart apart part of us but as las an individual individual in in- few of us really understood understood understood un un- but all of us loved We can remember all of these little things and we can look forward to meeting you again For now Uncle Gid so long but never goodbye |
