Springville Herald | 1943-12-30 | Page 1 | Funeral Held Tuesday for Wm. Arthur Bird

FINEKAL HELD TUESDAY FOR O. ARTHUR BIRD Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Tuesday afternoon in the First sard chapel for Wm. Arthur Eird. 67. who died Saturday at 1 a. m., at the family residence, 696 South, I Fourth East street. He had been i!! several months. Euri-J was in the Evergreen cemetery directed by A. Y. Wheeler Wheel-er and Son mortuary. Mr. Bird was born in Springville, Spring-ville, October 13, 1S76, a son of Walter and Arabella Hailey Bird, early Springville pioneers. He had lived here always. . For more than thirty years, he had served on the Old Folks committee com-mittee of Springville and had also been a member of the Sprirgville-Mapleton Sprirgville-Mapleton Black Hawk Indian War Veterans and Pioneers committee for a number of years. He had farmed most of his life , and in more recent years, had engaged en-gaged in the poultry industry. For six years, he was city road sup-en-isor, and in his early life had followed railroad construction. He ws a high priest in the Kolob stake. He married May Bryan in Springville, October 13, 1897, and they later received their endowments endow-ments in the Manti temple. Surviving bsides his widow, are six sons and three daughters, Bryan Bry-an Bird, Midvale; Mrs. Thelma Harmer, Payson; ' ' Arvil, Lloyd, Lewis, Russen, Dean and Clara Bird and Mrs. Manilla Brown, of Springville; also 22 grandchildren, Mi a sister, Mrs. Will Loader of Pleasant Grove.