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Show Masonic Burial Follows Death of PhillipBradfield Masonic funeral services ,were conducted Sunday afternoon in the ! Milford L. D. S. ward chapel for j Phillip W. Bradfield, 35, who died the previous Thursday noon of Bright's tVisease from which he had suffered over a long period of time. The services were attended by a large number of friends who thus endeavored to show the high degree of respect in which he was held. The Masonic ritual was conducted con-ducted by Harold JCline, a pasft master of Albert Pike lodge, who was appointed for the occasion by 0 -C. Koch, present worshipful worship-ful master of the local lodge. He was assisted by Sam! Cline, who delivered the eulogy, and by George Jefferson, who acted as marshal. Two vocal duet numbers were beautifully rendered' by Mrs. F. E. Casterline and Mrs. Lee Gray, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J. F. Tribole. Burial took place in the local cemetery, with arrangements in charge of the Southern Utah Mortuary. Phillip Willem Bradfield was born in Burlington, Iowa February Febru-ary 30, 1904, and there was reared and received a high school education. educa-tion. He began his work with the Standard Oil Company of California Califor-nia in 1925 at Bakersfield, his duties later bringing him to Utah. He was married to Blanche Grundy Grun-dy of Delta August 11, 1930, at Las Vegas, Nevada. His first place of business in Utah, was at Divide, on highway high-way 89, where he acted as manager mana-ger of the Standard's bulk plant for two years, coming directly from there to Milford in July of 1931. He had been county distributing distri-buting agent for the Standard people since tihab time and had done much to forward the interests in-terests of the company during the interim. As a member of the Beaver County Fish and Game club and as a lay citizen who was alert to help in everything for the benefit of the county and community, com-munity, Phil was1 considered an outstanding citizen in every re-pect. re-pect. His fine attributes of industry, in-dustry, honesty and civic-minded-ness endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. He affiliated af-filiated himself with Albert Pike Masonic lodge in June, 1937, receiving re-ceiving his master's degree in November, No-vember, that year, and was holding hold-ing the office of junior deacon at the time of his death. 'He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Blanche Bradfield; two daugters, Marian and Bernice Bradfield, and a son, Phillip Larry Bradfield; his mother, Mrs. Louis Bradfield of IBakerfield, California; Califor-nia; two sisters, Mrs. George Taylor and Mrs. Earl Hem, both of Bakersfield; two brothers, Jack Bradfield of Milford, and Harry Bradfield of Camp Mead, South Dakota. M |