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Show Former Hinckley Resident Dies In California Thomas Victor Pratt, 43, of Bell-flower, Bell-flower, California, died in a, Los Angeles hospital Saturday, of a heart ailment. He had been ill two weeks. He was born in Holden Sept. 25, 1904, a son of Thomas H. and Jane Harman Pratt. He attended Hinckley Hinck-ley schools, and was graduated from Brigham Young University in 1929. He was married to Miss Leona Maxfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Maxfield, of Delta, June 10, 1931, in the Salt Lake temple, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For a year they made their home in Salt Lake City, where Mr. Pratt operated a grocery store. Fifteen years ago they moved mov-ed to California and made their home at Bellflower. Mr. Pratt was in business there, owner and manager man-ager of two cafes, one at Compton and one at Long Beach. He was active in church work in Utah and California. He had served as counselor in the Sunday school at Bellflower ward, and during the past year assisted in the building of the new ward chapel. Surviving are his widow and two daughters and a son, Mary Joyce, Jeon and Robert Thomas Pratt, Bellflower; his mother, and a sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Grace Thomas, and four brothers, Ansel H. Claud H. and Paul H. Pratt, Salt Lake City, and Jesse H. Pratt, Linwood, California. Funeral services were conducted in the Bellflower ward chapel on Tuesday, and burial was in the cemetery there. Attending from Delta were Mrs. Pratt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Maxfield, accompanied ac-companied by Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Maxfield, of Delta and Mr. and Mrs. Layton Maxfield, of Salt Lake City. |