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Show R. E. PEERY SERVICES HELD Sorrowing friends and relatives in great number, attended services Sunday afternooji for Roland E. Peery, well-known Springville bar- ber, who died Friday at the Utah I Valley hospital of complications j following an operation for appendicitis appen-dicitis performed about a week ago. String music was played by Carol and Aileen Condie, accompanied accom-panied by lone Averett, before and after the services. Bishop G. C. Laney conducted. Speakers who paid tribute to Mr. Peery were Charles Booth of Spanish Fork, Lawrence Larsen of Mammoth, and Bishop Peter Nielson. The Fireman's Ladies' chorus sang two numbers, "Prayer Perfect" Per-fect" and "Going Home." Instrumental Instru-mental music was given by Wm. Parry and Ralph Weight. Other musical numbers included a solo by Gilbert Johnson, "My Buddy," and a duet, "The House at the End of the Lane." by Guy Brown and Lola . Weight, accompanied . by Mary Witney. ' A , resolution ' of the Spanish Fork chapter" of the Utah-Juab Firemen's association, was given by Mark F. Boyack. Invocation was given by Bishop Wm. Witney and the benediction by J. Emniett Bird. Mr. Peery was born in Payson, February 21, 18,91, a son of Charles B. and Rachel Whitehead Peery. He had been a barber here for more than 20 years, and had previously been in the business at Eureka and Mammoth. He' was a former member of the Springville volunteer fire department depart-ment and had held offices in the Utah-Juab Counties and the State Firemen's associations, of which he was a member at the time of his death. After the death of his first wife, Mrs. Mae Larsen Peery, he married mar-ried Lula Bringhurst. Surviving are his widow and two children, Eldon Peery and Mrs. Marie Johnson, by the first marriage; one grandchild; three brothers and a sister, Mrs. Dora Bennett of Burley, Idaho; Samuel and Joseph Peery of Payson, and Harry Peery of Goshen. Burial was in the Spanish Fork cemetery under the direction of the A. Y. Wheeler & Son mortuary. |
