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Show ROSCOE MILES DIES SUDDENLY Wallace Roscoe Miles passed away at the Washington County hospital at 8 o'clock Monday evening, a victim of Bright's disease. He was taken ill Sunday while working work-ing for Jack Findlay on the Arizona strip. He was seized with convulsions convul-sions and became unconscious. He was brought to the hospital here by Kenneth Ken-neth Hirschi, Arthur Drake and Wlm. Miller of Washington, but never regained re-gained consciousness. He was born in St. George May 4, 1901, a son of Wallace and Jennie Burgess Miles. He gained his schooling here and spent several years on the Arizona strip working for Preston Nutter, John Kinney and Jack Findlay. His parents were visiting Mrs. Miles' sister, Mrs. Maggie McMurtrie, at Mesa, Ariz., when they received word of his death, and arrived here Wednesday Wed-nesday morning. His sister, Mrs. Anna Urie of Cedar City, was with her brother bro-ther when he passed away. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the stake tabernacle tab-ernacle under the direction of the West ward bishopric. |