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Show Bishop Randal! Stewart tilled By Falling Tree On LBS Farm Funeral Services Saturday In Roosevelt Stake Tabernacle 11 A. M. A falling tree snuffed out the life of Randall Isaac Stewart, 43, bishop of the Roosevelt ward. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, while he was cutting down trees at the ward welfare farm Wednesday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock. Bishop Stewart, with Thomas A. Sullivan, Thomas Todd, Byron By-ron Gilbert, Willard Anderson and Merlin Sullivan, was removing re-moving a number of trees at the farm when the accident occurred. oc-curred. According to those witnessing wit-nessing the tragedy, they were attempting to pull a tree over with a tractor and using power saws. Apparently Bishop Stew- art .anticipated that the tree would fall a certain direction, and when it suddenly shifted its course he became confused and ran with the tree, rather than away from it, and being unable to escape, was crushed underneath the tree. Death was instantaneous. Always an active church man, Bishop Stewart was born in Sevier, Sevier county, Ut, Sept. 11, 1907. He was educated in the schools of Sevier countv, graduating from the South Sevier Se-vier high school at Monroe. He filled a mission for the church in the Southern States from February 1935 to April 1937. He married Myra Carter in the Salt Lake temple Dec. 14, 1938, moving shortly after to Tooele as a circulation representative represen-tative for the Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram. Tribune-Telegram. He was a resident there until 1945 when he and his family came to Roosevelt to become associated with John Gilbert in the Western Stores Co. In 1950 he established the Stewart Furniture Co., which he was operating at the time of his death. He maintained his interest in-terest in Western Stores here. While residing in Tooele he ward bishopric from 1939 to 1945. Shortly after coming to Roosevelt he was called as stake Sunday School superintendent. Later he was called into the Roosevelt ward bishopric as counselor to Bishop Ezra J. Nixon. Upon division of the ward he became counselor to Bishop Hollis Hullinger. When Bishop Hullinger was called to the presidency of the Roosevelt Stake in the fall of 1949, Mr. Stewart became bishop of the ward. In addition to his religious activity, ac-tivity, Bishop Stewart found time to take an active part in civic affairs, having been a member mem-ber of the Lions club, and was currently serving on the hospital hos-pital board. He was a lover of the out-of-doors, being an ardent hunter and fisherman. He also excelled in drama, and was rated for his ability to entertain. Surviving are his widow, two sons and a daughter: Michael R., Patricia and Robert Stewart, Roosevelt; his mother, Mrs. Hat-tie Hat-tie Ross, Salt Lake City; a sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Effie Bridgers, Lark; -a brother, Bishop J. LaVerl Stewart, Farmington; and the (following step-brothers and sis-i sis-i ters: Mrs. Royal Buchanan, Gunnison; Gun-nison; Rollo Ross, Santaquin; Cub Ross, Redwood, Cal.; Mrs. Thora Wilkerson, Redwood, Cal.; Mrs. Alta Alger, Provo; and Grant Ross, Richfield. Funeral services will be held at the stake house here at 11 a. m. Saturday, with Howard Ivory, first counselor to Bishop Stewart, conducting. Burial tentatively ten-tatively is scheduled to be in the Salt Lake City cemetery, under the direction of the Olpin mortuary, of Roosevelt. |