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Show A. W. WEIGHT SERVICES HELD Relatives and friends from Arizona, Ari-zona, Idaho, and Utah paid final tribute to Alfred W. Weight at funeral services held Sunday in the First ward chapel. Mr. Weight died at his home early Thursday morning following a heart attack. Funeral services were conducted by Bishop A. G. Peterson. Speakers Speak-ers were President J. Emmett Bird and Wm. T. Tew. Musical numbers num-bers included selections from the Lund-Chaminade chorus of Salt Lake, of which his daughter is a member; vocal duet, Freeman Bird, Glen Holley; organ-piano duet, Lola Weight and Mary Bird. Prayers were offered by Myron A. Boyer, James B. Burrows, and A. W. Cherrington. String music was played by Chauncey Childs, Theo Childs, Mrs.. Jack Cherrington, and Luella Huntington. "Uncle Alf," as he was familiarly familiar-ly known to his many friends, was born May 7, 1866, in Springville, a son of Frederick and Elizabeth Bocock Weight. He had resided here all his life. In his early life, Mr. Weight worked in the timber, cutting ties for the railroad, and also helped in erecting some of Springville's first business buildings. Later he engaged en-gaged in farming and stock raising rais-ing in Wanroads valley, east of Springville. He had been a life-long member of the L. D. S. church, active as a teacher and high priest. He had also done temple work extensively in recent years. At the time of his death, he was honorary president of the Weight family organization, being its oldest member. He married Eunice Noakes in August, 1887, in Springville, and the couple received their endowments endow-ments later in the Salt Lake Endowment En-dowment house. He is survived by his wife, five sons and a daughter, William F., Willis A., Ernest, Nolan G., and Nellie Weight of Springville, and Arch R. Weight of Salt Lake; brothers, bro-thers, Geo. A., Claude F., Ralph B. Weight, of Springville, James E. Weight of Salt Lake, C. O. Law of Springville; one sister, Amelia Weight; and 24 grandchildren. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery under the direction of the A. Y. Wheeler mortuary." |