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Show Funeral Services Held Tuesday For L J. Whitney Many friends and relatives paid final tribute Tuesday afternoon at services for Lewis J. Whitney, 80, Springville city building inspector, and well known resident, who died Saturday at the Payson hosiptal of a heart attack. The services were held in the Second-Eighth ward chapel and burial was in the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Whitney was born in this city June 18, 1874, a son of Leonard Leon-ard J. and Tryphenia Perry Whitney. Whit-ney. His parents moved to Maple-ton Maple-ton when he was young and he attended schools there, later studying study-ing at the University of Utah. In his early life he farmed and did carpentry work, later mining, prospecting, working as a beekeeper bee-keeper and operating a planing mill. He supervised the construction construc-tion of many state roads and bridges and designed and constructed con-structed many homes and public buildings throughout this area and in southern Utah. Since retiring from road work and bridge construction, Mr. Whitney Whit-ney had continued with his architectural archi-tectural and building work and had been employed as Springville city building inspector for the past four years. He married Frances Evaline Henderson of Cannonville, February Febru-ary 24, 1909. She died in 1930 and (Continued on page 10) |
