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Show J? V 1. - :.' :: 5 ' ' Andrew G. Peterson, for nhom services are being held !;; Thursday (today) at 1 p.m. S Funeral services r today for I A, G, Peterson f Funeral services are being held in Springville Stake House '.M today, Thursday, at 1 p.m. for r i Andrew Giles Peterson, 69, a ;' " well-known businessman and ;: church leader, who died Mon-ij Mon-ij lay, Oct. 18, 1965, of a short illness, at Utah Valley Hos-ls-:: pitai. t Bishop Lawrence Lynn of tie Fifth Ward is in charge i 11 of the services. Burial will be m, in the Evergreen Cemetery under the direction of Wheeler PJ Mortuary. Mr. Peterson was born in SUi Springville April 25, 1896, a son of John N. and Frances Giles Peterson. He has made his home here always. Mi He married Maude Child, I,.,,, Dec. 1, 1915, in the Salt Lake iW Temple. She died in 1948 and on Sept. 20, 1949, he married Elva Harmer Averett in the i Salt Lake Temple. fjt Mr. Peterson was a promi-I) promi-I) lent figure on Springville Main , Street for some 42 years. As JSPy 'continued on page 12, col. 3) Funeral services today for A. G. Peterson (continued from page 1) a young man, he was employed by Deal Brothers and Menden-hall Menden-hall Store, later by J. F. iSmith Merchantile Co., and was manager man-ager of Kolob Lumber Co., for 32 years. In recent years, he has raised registered dairy and beef cattle. He has always been active in LDS Church work. For a total of 11 years, he served as a ward bishop in the Third Ward and later in the First. He was a counselor in Kolob Stake presidency 11 years. Mr. Peterson served a term as Springville City Councilman and was a former member of the Springville Kiwanis Club. He was an ardent Softball fan and for many years while engaged in the lumber business, busi-ness, sponsored a girls' Softball team, having one team qualify to enter the national tournament tourna-ment in Detroit in 1941. Surviving besides his wife, are three daughters and a son, Mrs. Harold (Venita) Harmer of Payson; Mrs. Darrell B.I (Evelyn) Hill of Roy; Mrs. Doyle C. (Shirley) Egan of Layton; Ray Peterson of Springville; also two stepdaughters, step-daughters, Mrs. Guy (Louise) Bird, Mt. Pleasant; and Mrs. William P. (Marie) Bird of Springville; 28 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; two sisters and a brother, Mrs. Zelma Beardall and George Peterson Pe-terson of Springville; and Mrs. W. J. (Lela) Gailbraith of Salt Lake City. In 1871 there were 23 different differ-ent guages of railway track in use in the United States. The widest was six feet. |