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Show COUNTY ATTORNEY ! 0. A. MURDOCK DIES IN OGDEN PSSES AWAY AFTER ' SEVERAL MONTHS OF FAILING HEALTH Orrice A. Murdoek, county attorney of Beaver County, and widely known as a veteran member of the Utah bar, passed away in the Dee Hospital at Ogden, Monday, September 10. His death was occasioned by general poor j health of several ' months' duration, i Since the death of his wife and help-jmcet, help-jmcet, who passed on last spring, Mr. IMurdock's health had failed rapidly. His body was returned to hi.s Beaver i home Tuesday evening, and funeral 'rites were held at Beaver Thursday. Mr. Murdoek was a native of Utah, coming from sturdy pioneer stock. He was C3 years of age on the 30th day of last August. He spent practically all of his life in Beaver County. In 1800, he married Cinda R. Robinson, and of this union there are three sons and one daughter left to mourn the death of the father. The daughter, at whose home Mr. Murdoek was visiting when stricken with fatal illness, k Mrs. Will Bennett, of Ogden. The sons are Abe, of Beaver; John R., who is a physician stationed at Honolulu with the naval department; and Ray, who has been located at Long Beach, Calif. In Milford there is now residing resid-ing a brother, Jos. R., Senior. In his death the members of legal profession in Beaver County lose an able and honorable brother member of the bar; the county loses one of its staunchest representatives of the law; and an old and highly respected family fam-ily of Beaver County is bereft of a beloved be-loved kinsman. o |