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Show Former Deltan Dies in Ely, Funeral Friday Don Beck, 64, an early resident of Delta for many years, died Monday in the hospital at Ely, Nevada, following fol-lowing a heart attack Sunday in the White Pine county court house. He was born Feb. 2, 1884, in Putnam Put-nam county, Illinois, a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Beck, who will be remembered here as early settlers on the South Tract. Mr. Beck joiner join-er his parents and family here several sev-eral years after their arrival. In the early 1920's he went to Baker, Nev., where he had made his home since. He had served as deputy sheriff, for White Pine county, and was engaged en-gaged in business and mining. During Dur-ing the years he spent in Baker he made frequent trips into Delta, and had been in Delta the week preceding his sudden death. Funeral services were held in Ely at 10 a. m. Friday. Attending from Delta were Fred Hauman, Fred Keim, and George Sipes, with friends fri-ends from Baker and Ely. Mr. . Beck's sisters, Mrs. Marcia Johnson, and Mrs. Nira Smith and a nephew, Robert Johnson, from Hayward, California, attended the services. Others of the family, a sister in Illinois, Ill-inois, a brother, Louis Beck, Chicago, Chi-cago, and sisters, Mrs. Edna Ken-nelly, Ken-nelly, Chelsea, Vermont, and Miss Helen Beck, New York City, were unable to come at this time. Following Fol-lowing the services the remains were taken to the crematory in Salt Lake City. |