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Show Funeral Friday 9th ward for S. Virl Jones Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in the 3rd-9th 3rd-9th ward chapel, for S. Verl Jones, 71, who died .Tuesday, July 19, 1966, at a Salt Lake City rest home following a long illness. Bishop R. Melvin Haymond of the 9th ward will be in charge of the service. Friends may call at the Wheeler Mortuary Thursday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. and before the services Friday. ouriai win De in tne evergreen cemetery where Springville post 28 of the American Legion Le-gion will conduct rites. Mr. Jones was born in Provo August 29, 1894, a son of Samuel Sam-uel T. and Phoebe Ann Hardy Jones. He spent his early life in that city attending school there and receiving a normal certificate to teach from the Brigham Young University. He taught school in Goshen Price, Huntington and Orange-ville Orange-ville from 1921 to 1926. He was a veteran of World War I, serving before he began his teaching career. From 1927 to 1928 he took an apprentice course for watch repairing in Salt Lake City (cont. on back page, col. 7) 1 I ' --' f ' " -i 'w 1 1 ' ' i 1 S. Verl Jones, 71, for whom services will be conducted. FUNERAL FRI. 9th WARD FOR S. VIRL JONES (continued from front page) and later opened a jewelry store in Springville. He was in business from 1929 until 1956, when lie retired due to ill health. He had always been active in LDS church work, holding various offices and taking a prominent part in music events. He was a High Priest in the 9th ward at the time of his death. He married Etta Reid on June 9, 1920, in the Salt Lake LDS temple. They have made their home in Springville most of their married life, residing at 82 South 200 East. Surviving are his wife, two sons and two daughters, S. Reid Jones and Mrs. Warner (Val-ena) (Val-ena) Klemm of Salt Lake City; Clifford E. Jones of Price and Mrs. Russell (Elaine) Hark-ness Hark-ness of Ogden; 18 grandchildren grandchild-ren and a brother and sister, T. Wm. Jones of Provo and Mrs. Mayme Baker of American Fork. |