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Show Artist Passes ... V i X : - " I M r i- rv Mi. ' - ' M j , Howard Kearns spent many enjoyable hours sketching and painting. paint-ing. His pictures hang in the current Utah artists' exhibit and have been judged among the best. T : HOWARD MRNS, ARTIST AND MUSICIAN, DIES Funeral Held Saturday For Well Known Former Resident, Art Exhibitor Springville friends and art patrons pat-rons felt a keen loss the past week in the death of Howard Kearns, well-known artist and musician, who died last Wednesday night at a Salt Lake hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. J A consistent exhibitor in the Springville art sh6ws with pictures in the current Utah Artists' exhibit, exhib-it, Mr. Kearns had won much favorable fav-orable recognition in art displays throughout the state. He was also a musician of prominence, having led various orchestras and was a music instructor for a number of years. He was engaged in his favorite fav-orite pastime of sketching when stricken and was ill only a short time. Born in Springville, March 17, 1907, he was a son of William H. and Loretta Chase Kearns. He spent his early life attending schools heVe and later went to Idaho Ida-ho Falls, Ida., where he was engaged en-gaged as an organist at the Colonial Colo-nial theater for five years. He completed high school training train-ing at Mission high school, San Francisco and later attended College Col-lege of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif., one year. After attending the the California Califor-nia Arts school at San Francisco, Cal., Mr. Kearns returned to Pro-vo Pro-vo to attend Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. A member of the Musi-' cians Mutual Protective Assn., Los Angeles, he had given private instruction in-struction in piano and accordion the past ten years at his home at 780 Yale Ave., Prove Recognized as a brilliant artist, Mr. Kearns displayed a private water color exhibit at Ogden. Surviving are his mother, one brother and two sisters, Arthur Kearns and Mrs. Dora McKenzie, Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Ella K. Burke, San Francisco, Calif. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon in the Fourth ward chapel under direction of the bishopric. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery. |