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Show 1 Services . held , Saturday for Edmund Cragim Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, in the Fourth-Tenth Ward Chapel, for Edmund Cragun, 82, well-known well-known Springville businessman, who died Wednesday, April 29, 1964, of ailments incident to age, at a Provo hospital. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery. He was born March 18, 1882, in Pleasant View, Weber County, Coun-ty, a son of Wilford E. and Mary Ann Ellis Cragun, the seventh child of a family of 13. He attended schools of Pleasant View and Ogden, and spent his early life working on the family farm in Pleasant View. He served two missions for the LDS Church, one to Australia Aus-tralia in 1902, and a short-term mission to Eastern Canada in 1925. He married Ellen Mower, Mow-er, Nov. 22, 1905, in Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died Feb. 28. 1950. He later married Sarah Bigler, and she died in February, Feb-ruary, 1953. He then married Mary B. Snow Lowry on Aug. 28, 1953. An active member of the LDS Church, he served in the Windsor Ward bishopric for ten years, and in the Timpan-( Timpan-( continued on page 12, col. 4) - t if ' ; ri ' i i t ; ' p p K ' . ' P j ' J ; -pp Ul 'A i Edmund Cragun, 82, local businessman, who died Wednesday, Wed-nesday, in a Provo hospital. bervices held for Edmund Cragun (continued from page one) ogos Stake presidency ten years before moving to Springville Spring-ville in 1939. In Springville he had worked as a ward teacher, and had done genealogy and temple work. Surviving are his widow of Springville; three sons: Edmund Ed-mund M. Cragun of Orem; Oscar M. Cragun of Las Vegas, Nev.; and W. Rumel Cragun of Springville; an adopted daughter, Mrs. Marie C Johnston John-ston of Bossier City, La.; two step-daughters, Mrs. Louisa Bradley of Hunter; and Mrs. Lawain Odell of Salt Lake City; one sister, Mrs. Spencer Heiner of Salt Lake City; 19 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. Several Springville mothers of girls attending USU, Logan, spent the weekend at the University Uni-versity at specially arranged functions to honor mothers. They include: Mrs. Erma Hor-ton, Hor-ton, Mrs. Robert White, Jr., Mrs. Helen Ashcraft, Mrs. Barbara Hatch, Mrs. Faye Old-royd, Old-royd, Mrs. Wilna Allred, Mrs. Afton Frandsen, Mrs. Mae Harrington, Mrs. Edith Whitney, Whit-ney, Mrs.' Dula Crandall, Mrs. Hazel Roylance, Mrs. Catherine Cather-ine Russell. They attended classes with the girls Friday; were guests at a party at the respective, dorms, attended a eons and programs and also eons and progarms and also went to church with their daughters, Sunday. |