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Show Funeral Services For Thomas Beard Funeral services were held Friday Fri-day afternoon of last week at the local L. D. S. chapel for Thomas Beard, 66, who died April 9 of a heart attack after failing health of some duration. The services were conducted by Bishop Carlyle F. Gronning and speakers were Rudolph Nielsen and Mitchell Fisher. Musical numbers included two selections by a quartet composed of Mrs. Harold Cline, Mrs. Vance Fisher, Mrs. J. M. Hughes and Mrs. Clyde Griffiths, with piano accompaniment accompani-ment by Mrs. E. L. Smith, and a vocal solo by J. M. Hughes. The invocation was offered by Joseph Myers and the benediction by Bishop Gronning, while Mr. Fisher offered the dedicatory prayer in the Milford cemetery, where interment took place. Thomas Beard was born April 13, 1877 at South Normanton England, a son of Charles Beard sr. and Rebecca Southerington Beard. Coming to Utah as a young man, he was married in the Logan L.D..S. temple June 7, 1905 to Pheobe Anderson of Providence. This union was broken by Mrs. Beard's death. On January 20, 1920,- he was married to Sarah Dailey of Paragonah, the ceremony cere-mony having been performed in the St. George temple. Mr. Beard was employed in the Union Pacific railroad shops until two years ago, when he was retired retir-ed with pension and devoted himself him-self to his long-established chicken business. Surviving Mr. Beard are his widow, six sons and a daughter: Jack Simon of Caliente, Nevada; Leland and Glen of Milford; Marion in naval service in Atlantic waters; Merritt, attached to the army medical corps in Pacific transport service, pnd Earl and Leona Beard, both of Salt Lake i City, the former, rejected for army service, being engaged in defense work at Hill field. Also surviving Mr. Beard are the following brothers bro-thers and sisters: Charles Beard and Mrs. Mary A. McCulley of Milford; Wilford Board, Levan; Leonard Beard, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Ethel Killam, Cedar City; and Mrs. Mablc Gray and Mrs. Phyllis Luedtke of Los Angeles. All of the children were present for the funeral, the six sons serving serv-ing as pallbearers. v |