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Show John E. Lovell Dies Monday At Oak City Home I t i - S - A JOHN E. LOVELL John Edmund Lovell, 87-year old native son, died Monday, Feb. 19, ,-N at 8:50 a. m. at his home in Oak City after a lingering illness. For the past 82 years of his life he had lived at Oak City, where he farmed and raised livestock. Until the past few years, when his advanced ad-vanced age had reduced his activities, activi-ties, he had been a prominent figure fig-ure in civic and church affairs. He was bom Dec. 14, 1863, in Deseret, a son of John and Emma Jorgenson Lovell, pioneers sent to help colonize that community. He was the third white child born in West Millard county. When he was a boy of five his parents moved to Oak City where they were among the first five families to settle. He had lived there since. On Oct. 4, 1883, he was married to Harriet Jane Lyman in the Salt Lake Endowment House. A lifelong member of the LDS church, he had been active in church organizations, organ-izations, in the the ward and stake Surviving are six daughters and a son. Mrs. Sylvia L. Harris, Lulu Lovell and Clark Lovell, at Oak City; Mrs. Belva L.. Jones, Mrs. Gene L. Gardner, at Delta, Mrs. Nell Barlow, Brigham City, and Mrs. Angelyn Mecham, Tropic; a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conduct ed Friday at 1 p. m. . in the Oak City ward chapel, by Bishop Burn-is Burn-is L. Finlinson. Burial will be in the Oak City cemetery, under direction of L. N. Nickle and sons. |
