Show LEON U M el 1 fl JONES el 0 BY death IT 11 I 1 prominent churchman dies after long illness past county I 1 funeral sunday afternoon at tour four mock saturday death bagain carn came e tp t our peaceful village summoning a patient sufferer who had endeared himself to in all who biney ai d thru his devo devotion ilon to ills his cor coci 1 jil unity lits his church and his family BIOGRAPHY SKETCH by albert R lyman leonard kumen jones member oi 01 tile the presidency of san juan stake who v ho died here on the twenty fifth oi 01 july after a long illness was born Is bluff utah november etli 1889 he was a son of kumen jones and mary ale son jones daughter of kishori jens jena Vi nielson bielson elson lie HP attended the district school in bluff and the ab B Y U in prow and tilled filled a two years missi onto the so southern li abern states between tile yea deais 1912 14 I 1 in n r 1914 he was waa married to mith hutli perkins ns daughter of hyrum perkins andson after that lie madel made hii bis afe p Is iq blanding following the lead of his father lie he was a cattle I 1 man and later went into tile the sheep i business busane 8 a in the service of the ho humph c it and the county he was always in preat great demand for he was known to ie be true to his conviction nhit ever it might involve ho he seivel tj two 0 ter is lie as cc county ty commissioner pil part a waa active mu much anh or of his time on 80 some m e civic or betterment committee of the town or county he served as councellor counce dounce lor to bishop wayne H redd hedd later as councellor counce lor to bishop J B harris and later be crap of Bland blandine inz from which place he was released to becom councellor counce loi lor to stake president wayne vayne H redd nearly two years ago 1 in 11 1926 his w wife died very luddeni fiand and he was so badly 1 nahi I 11 that lie he had to be tarried carried in a chair to her funeral he went wen t thru a all 1 I 1 th those ose dark days wit inlet v nde ul I 1 roi roura rage ere keeping ills his sot sol TOWS to 11 himself I 1 ingalf and meeting everybody with a san aello I 1 to his hii last lait affliction hanff over him as a sentence of I 1 d loath attl i for foi moie met e than ban a leai for foi it ohp lp 1 I 0 c t n s II 11 hart R 1 1 ed lie he could not noi decap sury lve E aen v en w with ti 1 this boiling boding cloud before him he was the same aaen ful fill abeen 0 o optimistic tI leonard that he had ev ever 0 been and from ills his deathbed death bed he directed the work on a new home for his inot motherless herless chil children dien eves eve on oa the morning of the too much worn out to sp speak e ak above a wh whisper I 1 av sper he could still stil I 1 get off a joke for hla his weary veary mother expressing with a feeble smile the splendid asplend d cheer that thai aa aa to be with him to the last leonard jones Is a tine fine product of sn junn jinn county reflecting in ills his character chai cha acLei ratter the splendid type of hla his father and that of its his grandfather grand father bishop jens nielson Nl elson he will long be remembered as one of the stai warts of this country he is ig survived by his father fumei kumeu jolie jonea by ills his mother affectionately known lacno far and wide as aa aunt mary b by v his bis brothers thomas A mariln W leland marion alma francis and by his sister mrs airs mamie adams adam ile he Is 18 also survived by his children vincent keith curtis curds and ruth in this connection it Is very fitting to relate that since their mothers death th children have been mothered by her sister miss rachel pel pei kloa kiris who has been as devoted to ti agi them as any mother could be nurs loft jig the tiny ruth from a helpless intent into beautiful girlhood aunt Tt achel la Is everything to the children chil dien and ho that both parents are gone site she has the tremendous responsibility in if leading them to maintain the tine fine standard or of their inear departed lainer ano mother it la Is fitting too to relate that in Ms his lingering illness getting weaker bell eich day lie abs als cared for with great devotion by his mother herself in falling failing health rieal thi and by b ills lit mamie adams tho all 11 tho the brothel a host of friends stood ready to help and did nil 1411 thy they could to male mahe the burden bui loit more noi e easy to bear sunday art afternoon ernson it ht toni four thirty fin funeral fu service were ft ere 11 held id for leonard kumen humen jones und and again the minding chapel continued conlin aed on pago page 4 LEONARD KUMEN JONES SUMMONED BY DEATH continued from page 1 was filled with friends friends deeply moved by the loss sustained by the com community A ladles ladies chorus sang ahng some time somewhere james P carrot carrol rave gave the invocation the choir sang oh my father albert R lyman and john D rogers of the stake high council were the speakers and remarks were made by mrs wayne 11 redd radd there was a violin solo by br hyrum porter and a vocal solo by ariel baliff califf of provo the choir sang in an a appropriate prop closing hymn una find bishop V W n D hammond of moab pronounced the benediction thorns thomis marvin leland Lel ancl alma and francis jones brothers of the deceased and his son vincent acted as palf pal bearers nieces of mr jones were selected for flower girls interment was made in the local the profusion of flowers sent by br sympathetic friends from far anti and near attested to the tind ind esteem in which they held mr air jones jonea |