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Show Funeral Rites for Theodore Stecker Held on Monday Funeral services in memory of Theodore A. (Ted) Stecker, 69, 617 East 780 North, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, were held Monday, Aug. 11 at 12 noon in the LDS Third-Sixth Ward Chapel, under un-der the direction of Bishop Cloyd Christiansen of the Sixth Ward. Mr. Stecker died early last Friday morning at University Hospital, Salt Lake City, from 1 natural causes. Speakers, who eulogized the , deceased as an outstanding husband, father and neighbor, and church worker, were Calvin Cal-vin Walker and President Boyd L. Fugal. An organ solo, "Perfect Day" was played by Ann McCausland and G. Hugh Allred sang "Oh My Father," accompanied by Lynette Allred. Prelude and postlude music were also played play-ed by Ann McCausland. Family prayer was led by Bishop Daryl E. Huish, Norman Wright asked the invocation and benediction was pronounced pronounc-ed by Leo Taylor. Pallbearers were Daryl Hu-ishish, Hu-ishish, Eugene Bezzant, Bryan Roberts, Nephi Burgener, Clyde Newman and J. C. Hilton. Flowers were cared for and arranged by the Sixth Ward Relief Re-lief Society. Burial was in Pleasant Grove City Cemetery where the dedicatory dedi-catory prayer was spoken by Alexander T. Stecker, a son. Mr. Stecker was born March 28, 1900 in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son of Peter and Margaret Kennedy Ken-nedy Stecker. He married Elsie Wingassen on May 22, 1936 in New York. Their marriage was late solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He resided in Brooklyn until 1942 when he moved to Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove with his family. He worked at Geneva Steel Co. in the coke plant, until his retirement retire-ment in 1968. Active in the LDS Church, he had been a high priest in the Pleasant Grove Sixth Ward at the time of his death, and had been an active temple worker. Surviving are his widow, of Pleasant Grove; one son Alexander Alex-ander T. Stecker, Boston; one; stepson, Hans Ellies, Orem, and one grandchild. |
