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Show Funeral Services At Mapleton For Austin Houtz Funeral Services will be held today at 2 p.m., for Austin Houtz, 70, Mapleton farmer and carpenter who died Monday Mon-day at the Utah Valley Hospital Hospi-tal following a short illness. The services will be held in the Mapleton ward church directed di-rected by Bishop Stewart Whiting. Whit-ing. Friends may call at the family residence before the services. ser-vices. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Houtz was born in Springville Nov. 27, 1887, son of Christian W. and Mary Esther Es-ther Waters Houtz. He received his education in the schools here in Utah county including the BYU. He filled a mission for the LDS Church to South Africa for three years. He was married mar-ried to Martha Allan in the Salt Lake LDS Temple March 13, 1912. Mr. Houtz had been active in the Mapleton ward Sunday School and MIA and the Genealogical Genea-logical Committee. He has also served as the group leader of the high priests in his ward. He is survived by his widow, five daughters and one son, Mrs. EIRoy (Lucile) Harmon, Price; Mrs. John (Mozelle) Cox, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Lynn (Delia) Johnson, Stockton, California; Cal-ifornia; Mrs. William C. m ifornia; Mrs. Leslie (La Veta) Gregerson, Fairfield, Calif.; Mrs. Milliam C. (Esther) Parry, Par-ry, Layton, Utah; and Lynn A. Houtz, Mapleton; 25 grandchildren, grand-children, one brother and one sister, Leslie B. Houtz, Provo and Mrs. Jennie Tew, Mapleton. |
