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Show FUNERAL HELD IN PROVO FOR GEORGE BARRETT Funeral services were conducted in the Provo Fourth ward on Monday Mon-day for J. George Barrett, a former for-mer resident of Springville, who died on Thursday of last week, of a heart attack at a Provo hospital. Burial was in the Provo cemetery. Mr. Earrett will be remembered by many friends in Springville, where he participated in many programs, playing accompaniment for Will Parry and Ralph Weight. He was born March 24, 1884, in Beaver, son of John and Hannah Johnson Barrett. He received his early education in the Beaver county schools and at the Cedar City state normal college. A member of the LDS church, he filled a mission to England in 1903. Later he lived in Salt Lake City, where he was a student of music, studying the piano and organ. He also attended the LDS Business College. He taught music in the San Luis stake at Manassa, Colo.; also at the stake academy at Snowflake, Colo., for a number of years. In his later life, Mr. Barrett operated the Coffee Cup cafe in Provo for 12 years, and at the time of his death managed the Royden hotel. He married Dora Dee Crandall In the Salt Lake LDS temple, Sept. 3, 1909. Surviving are his widow, the following children, George Vernon Vern-on Barrett, San Diego; Elwood C. Barrett, Colton, Calif.; John Byron By-ron Barrett, San Bernardino; Mrs. Dorothy Gammon, Bob Barrett, Billie Barrett and Bonnie Louise Barrett, all of Provo; also 14 grandchildren. |