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Show H.B. WATERS DIES IN CHICAGO Herman B. Waeers. 72, prominent promi-nent Utah businessman, chairman chair-man of the board of the Tellu ride Power Co. and president of the Big Springs Power Co. at Moroni, died Friday, Aug. 17. in a Buffalo, N. Y., hospital, of a kidney ailment. . Mr. Waters graduated from Cornell University in 1903 as an electrical engineer. He spent some time in Montana in water I I HERMAN B. WATERS measurement work and then moved to San Luis Obispo, Cal., where he was assistant director of California State Polytechnic. In 1911 he joined the Tellu-ride Tellu-ride Power Co. in Idaho as chief engineer. In 1916 he came to Richfield as general manager. , He was made president of the company in 1940 and became chairman of the board in 1946. He had been a director in the company since 1916. He was a member of the University Uni-versity Club, the North Fork club and the First Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake- City. He was a Mason, a member of Acacia - Lodge No. 17; the Utah Consistory, the El Kalah Shrine Temple, and was one of the organizers or-ganizers of the Associated Civics Clubs of Southern Utah. He was active in the Boy Scouts and was a member of the j Salt Lake Council. j Mr. Waters was born -July 19, , 1879, in Illinois, a son of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Waters. They moved to Bozeman, Mona, when he was a child and he was reared and educated there. He attended Montana State College and Cornell University. He married Edith Evans in 1907, in Oakland, Cal., She and a daughter preceded him in death. On June 6, 1951, he married Ruth P. Chapin in Buffalo, N. Y. They were en route to Salt Lake City when he was stricken. strick-en. Survivors, besides his widow, are a brother and sister, Foley L. Waters . and Mrs. Mary W. Houston, : both of Los Angeles, and a cousin, L. B. Fuller of Salt Lake City. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Masonic Temple in Salt Lake. Interment -was in the Mt. Olivet cemetery. |