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Show 'HEART ATTACK ' FATAL TO PROMINENT MAN A. W. Harmer, Bank Director, Stricken Suddenly While Loading Cattle Albert William Harmer, age 71, director of the Springville Bank-ing Bank-ing company, and prominent in i civic and church work, died unex- J pectedly of a heart attack at 11 :15 a. m., Wednesday. He was loading cattle at the west fields when he was stricken and died before reaching the hospital. He was born in Springville on March 31, 1872, a son of Albert William and Elizabeth Am. Giles Harmer and had always made his' home in this city. Mr. Harmer had been a director of the Springville Banking company compa-ny since 1930 and had a record of never missing a meeting in the thirteen-year period. He was also Springville city water-master for ten years, and served on the city council two years. ' He was active in church work for more than fifty years and filled a mission to the northern states and subsequently worked in practically prac-tically every auxiliary organization of the church. He was in the bishopric of the Second ward for twenty-one years and served in the High Council seven years. He was released from the Kolob stake presidency when the stake was reorganized last month, after serving serv-ing for eleven years. He married Eleanor Elizabeth Reynolds June 10, 1903, in the Salt Lake City L. D. S. temple. She died in January, 1920, and on November No-vember 22, 1922, he married Mrs. Esther B. Selck. Surviving, besides his widow, (Continued on page ten) DIES SUDDENLY . . . (Continued from page onel are eight sons and daughters, William, Wil-liam, Wallace G., and Elizabeth Harmer, Springville; Clifford E. Harmer, Ogden, and Mrs. Ida H. Johnson, Spanish Fork, by his first wife; Burton Albert, with the Armed Forces, stationed in North Dakota; Nadine and Lee Wilson Harmer, Springville, by the second marriage; also two step-children, Mrs. Theda Lewis, Grass Valley, Calif.; Walter Selck, with the U. S. Navy in the Solomons; eighteen grandchildren; seven brothers and y sisters, Elias G., Melvin G. and Ernest Harmer, Mrs. Et", el Lohr, Annie and Floss Harmer, Spring- ville; Mrs. Clara H. Black, Ogden. Funeral services will be conducted conduct-ed Sunday at 2 p. m., in the Second Sec-ond ward chapel. Friends may call at the family residence, 258 South, Third West. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by C. O. Claud-in Claud-in funeral home. |