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Show Wednesday rites held here for A. E. Blanchard Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Wheeler Mortuary Chapel for Achilles Ether Blanchard, 82, lifelong resident of this city who died June 2, 1969 in the Payson hospital. Burial was in the Springville Evergreen Cemetery. Ceme-tery. Rev. Bruce Coleman of the Church of the Nazarene of Provo officiated at the services. ser-vices. He was born Dec. 10, 1886, in a log cabin in Springville, the only child of Ether Enoch and Sylvia Goff Blanchard. He went to school in the old First Ward schools and the old Central-Washington school, where he was graduated from the sixth grade. He received a special spe-cial citation and certificate for his excellenca in deportment. In his early life he was chore boy at the Robinson Brothers Music store. His main work Achilles Ether Blanchard consisted of general store work and the delivery of pianos by horse and wagon. Later he developed de-veloped a bicycle business and followed that trade most of his life. It is estimated that he fixed fix-ed most of the bicycles in Springville while he was in the business. He married Sue Sweeney of Portland, Ore. She died in 1949. He later married Lucille Tal-madge. Tal-madge. Surviving is his widow of Springville. |