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Show f . -.V: .. -l ' 1:-' ,,. X ?: i: ' ' . . k - ;, I I r' " -: I : " J if .;. . - J E m i 1 Ostlund, Spring ville businessman for whom services ser-vices will be held at noon today in Springville Stake House. Final Rites Today For Emil Ostlund, Former City Mayor Funeral services will be held today at 12 noon, in the Springville Stake House, for Emil Ostlund, 80, prominent Springville business man who died Monday after a six-year illness. Bishop Leonard James will be in charge. Friends may call at the Wheeler Mortuary before the services. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery. He was born Aug. 3, 1879, in Loghem Bohuslan, Goteborg, Sweden, a son of Axel and Charlotte Jacobsen Anderson. Following an old Swedish custom cus-tom of selecting the name of a relative as his own, Mr. Ostlund Ost-lund chose the name of a grandmother's family with whom he had lived for some time. He came to the United States Stat-es when 18 and, after living in Wyoming for a while, moved to Carbon County where he worked in the mines. He later became inspector and then superintendent su-perintendent of mines and was state mine inspector for Utah Fuel Co. He also leased and operated mines and served eight years as a Carbon county coun-ty Commissioner. He was also associated with the First National Na-tional Bank, the Ford Motor Co. and the Eastern Utah Electric Elec-tric Company while in Carbon county. He moved to Springville in 1927 where he built the Rivoli theatre. He later operated another an-other in Spanish Fork. He served a term as mayor of Springville from 1944 to 1948 and also served eight years as city councilman. He was president of the In-termountain In-termountain Theatre Assn. 3 years and during World War II, received a presidential citation ci-tation for his work as chairman chair-man of the collection of scrap metal in this area. He married Rachel Gibbs at Sunnyside Nov. 18, 1903. She died Jan. 31, 1920. He married (Continued on Page 9, Col. 6) Final Rites Today For Emil Ostlund (Continued from Page One) Blanche Henrie at Price Sept. 25, 1922, and the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He was an active member of the LDS Church serving as superintendent su-perintendent of the Sunday School and as financial clerk of the Fifth ward for five years. He was a high priest at the time of his death. He was a member of Spring-ville Spring-ville Kiwanis Club, Timpanogos Knife and Fork Club and the Springville Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. Surviving are his widow; two sons, Richard E. Ostlund of Salt Lake City and Willard R. Ostlund of Springville; three daughters, Mrs. Harold (Audrey) (Aud-rey) Snow of Los Angeles, Mrs. Lowell (Evelyn) Johnson of Albuquerque, N. M., Mrs. Jerrol M. (Norma Rae) Boyer of Arlington, Va.; 14 grandchildren; grand-children; one brother and one sister, Thorvald Anderson and Ingeborg Anderson both of Sweden. |
