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Show WELL KNOWN CHURCH WORKER DIES AT FAMILY RESIDENCE William Wainwright, 71, patriarch patri-arch of Kolob stake and owner and manager of the Wainwright bakery bak-ery here for many years, died Monday Mon-day following a nine weeks' illness ill-ness at the family residence, 240 West 4th South. Bom in Manchester, England, March 19, 1875, he came to the United States with his wife and three children as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints in 1904. They lived in Salt Lake City until 1906, when they moved to Springville. He learned the bakery business in England and after coming here opened bakery ' establishments in Spanish Fork and at Richfield. Prominent in church work, he was bishop of the Second ward from 1925 to 1930. He was in Kolob stake high council fifteen 'years, the latter three years serv-. ing as president. A talented musician, mu-sician, he was stake music chairman chair-man several .years and also took part in dramatic entertainments. He served a short term mission in the northwestern states. He had served in the Sunday school presidency presi-dency and in the priesthood presidency presi-dency and had been a teacher in practically every auxiliary organization organi-zation of the church. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Louisa Harrison Wainwright, whom he married in 1898 at Bury, England; a son and three daughters, daugh-ters, John H. Wainwright, Spanish Span-ish Fork; Eva W. Patterson, Corte Madera, Cal.; Mrs. Mary W. Reynolds Rey-nolds Provo; Mrs. Lucy Lyall, El-nora El-nora N. Y.; thirteen grandchildren and a great-grandchild; two brothers broth-ers Fred Wainwright and Harry Wainwright, both of Manchester, England. Funeral services will be conducted conduct-ed Thursday at 2 p. m., in the Second Sec-ond ward chapel. Friends may call at the family residence before services ser-vices Burial will be in the Evergreen Ever-green cemetery, directed by Clau-din Clau-din funeral home. |