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Show DEATHS!" GORDON J. CASE f - ' ' I r ' I " I V c U " il jtntt i in.) i-vtwn- ma ,mm-i -.lui MT EMMONS (Special) Death came to Gordon J. Case, 32, Sunday, Nov. 4, at about 1 p. m., when he suffered a heart attack while speaking in an L.D.S. sacrament meeting. A son of F. Earl and Pearl Kynaston Case, he was born I in Mt. Emmons, Aug. 14, 1919. I He had lived here all his Ufe ! except for a few years spent in operating heavy road and excavating exca-vating equipment in Hawthorne, Nevada, Salt Lake and Kamas. On June 3, 1942, he was married mar-ried to Aleen Carlile, of Woodland Wood-land in the Salt Lake Temple. His death was a dramatic and touching closing to a short but useful life. He had risen to express ex-press thanks for 'his blessings, as is the custom with Latter-Day Latter-Day Saints on the first Sunday of each month. He spoke of his pride in his goodly parents, for the example they had always set him, and, then, after a loving tribute to his wife, his voice wavered wa-vered and the end came. His passing was not wholly unexpected as it was known that he was sufferins from a serious heart ailment. Although unable to pursue his usual work for a livelihood, he continued his activity in the church. His special spe-cial interests were genealogy and scouting. At the time of his death, he was ward scout master, Moon Lake District Scout Commissioner, member pi the ward genealogical committee, commit-tee, secretary of the second elder's el-der's quorum in the stake, and a representative from the elder's quorum on the stake genealogical genealogi-cal committee. Survivors include his widow and parents; two' sons. Michael and Sheldon; seven brothers, Fred and Arthur, Bountiful; Russell Rus-sell and Lynn. Salt Lake City; Carl, Indianapolis, Ind.; Glenn, Fort Lewis, Washington; and George, attending school at the B.Y.U., Provo; a sister, Mrs. Stella DeVries. Ogden; one grandmother, Mrs. Mary A. Case, Mt. Emmons. Funeral services were held in the Mt. Emmons ward chapel Wednesday at 1 p. m., with burial bur-ial in the Mt. Emmons cemetery under the direction of the Ol-pin Ol-pin Mortuary, of Roosevelt. MARY E. B. C. PACE NEOLA Death came to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Blanchard Cos-tello Cos-tello Pace, 71, of Neola, Wednesday Wednes-day at 8:30 a. m., at the homp of a daughter, Mrs. LaMar Barnson. in Salt Lake City, following fol-lowing a 3month illness. Funeral services will be held in the Neola Ne-ola L.D.S. Ward Chapel at 1 p. m. Saturday. Burial will be in the Roosevelt cemetery. A daughter of Ira Edmond and Mary Eliza Curtis Blanch-1 ard, she was born Aug. 3, 1880,' in Newton, Cache County. She had been an active work-ex work-ex in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. For the past seven years, she and her husband, Ira A. Pace, had been workers in the St. George L.D.S. Temple. Mrs. Pace had been a counselor in the L.D.S. Relief Society for several years. She was married to Charles jCostello.May 15, 1899, in Victor, I Idaho. He died in 1924. She was : married to Mr. Pace in the Salt I Lake L.D.S. Temple on Nov. 20, 1930. Survivors include her hu 'band; three daughters Mrs. Cas-sie Cas-sie Ford, Mrs. Irma Rowberry, and Mrs. Barnson, Salt Lake City; two stepsons. Orlando !Pace, Neola, and Stanley Pace, i Salt Lake City; three stepdaughters, stepdaugh-ters, Mrs. Irma Hutchins and Mrs. Alice Cook, Salt Lake City, ;and Mrs. Donna Mitchell, Neola; 23 grandchildren and 10 treat- ! grandchildren. i i ELIZABETH M. F. ROPER i GUSHER Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1 p. m. 'in the Moffatt Ward Chapl, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, under the direction direc-tion of Bishop Ashael Perry, for Mrs. Elizabeth May Ferguson Roper, 36, who was found dead at her home Saturday night. Apparently Ap-parently she had died in her sleep from a heart ailment. She was born July 31. 1915, in Victor, Idaho, a daughter of John S. and Robina Campbell Ferguson. The family moved to the Uintah Basin in 1918, where she attended schools at Fort Duchesne. She was married to Lawrence Roper, March 12, 1936. in Duchesne. Du-chesne. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Survivors include her husband and two sons, Boyd William, and Lonnie Burns Roper, both of Gusher; her mother, and the following brothers and sisters: Lester, Louis, Leonard, Marvin and Dalbert Ferguson, all of Gusher; William Ferguson, Provo; Pro-vo; Scott Ferguson, Salt Lake City; Pfc. Gene Ferguson, serving serv-ing with the U .S. Army in Germany; Sgt. Glen Ferguson, Roswell, N. M., and Mrs. Lola Blanchard, Montwel. Burial was in the Roosevelt cemetery under the direction of the Dillman Mortuary, of Roosevelt. Roos-evelt. RAYMOND MILES BIGELOW LAPOINT Funeral services were conducted in the Lapoint ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for Raymond Miles Bigelow, 44, who died October 31, in the Roosevelt hospital following n stroke. Services were conducted by Bishop Lee Walker. Mr. Bigelow was hauling mine props down Mosby Mountain Tuesday when he was stricken. He apparently had stopped to change a tire on his truck and was brought to the hospital by a passing motorist, who said he found him on the ground near the side of the highway in the Farm Creek area. A son of Franklin D. and Elvira El-vira Batty Bigelow, he was born in Naples, Uintah County, March ,23, 1907. On April 26, 1930, he married Vera Lee in Vernal. Most of his life had been spent in Vernal and Lapoint. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and is survived by his widow and five daughters, Mrs. Twila Nielson, Mrs. Betty Sorrels, Roosevelt; Helen, Phil-lis Phil-lis and Laura Bigelow, Lapoint; two sons, Clifford and Raymond Gene Bi'elow, Lapoint; one grandson; three brothers. George and Charley Bigelow, Lapoint, and Dean Bigelow, Salt Lake City; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Reynolds, Vernal, and Mrs. Or-nha Or-nha Kump. Lapoint |