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Show cuneral Services To Be Md Here Friday For Neils Sandberg HURRICANE, Utah Funeral services for Neils Sandberg Sr., 87, will be held Friday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. in the South ward chapel at St. George, under the direction of Bp. Harold Snow. Friends may call at the Sandberg home at St. George from 10 a.m. on Friday until time for the services. ser-vices. Mr. Sandberg died February 15, at the home of his son, Chauncey Sandberg, of causes incident to the mfirmities of advanced age. He was born October 12, 1850, at Christainstad County, Sweden, a son of Panella Ueirson and Swen Truedson Sandberg. At the age of thirteen he, in company with his parents and his two sisters Polly and Nellie and his brother Trols, left their home town for Malmo, Sweden preparatory to leaving for America. It took four weeks for the sailing vessel in which they embarked at Liverpool, England to reach Castle Garden, New York. To a boy barely in his teens the westward trek by train to St. Joseph, Mo., by steamboat to Florence, Neb., by ox team to Salt Lake City, was one of glorious glori-ous adventure that never dimmed with the years. Upon the arrival of the Sandberg Sand-berg family in Salt Lake City in August, 1863, they immediately answered the call of Brigham Young and continued on to Manti, Utah where they stayed for one year. Again in answer to President Young they were transferred to Washington. As a young man Mr. Sandberg was mustered out in the fall of 1867, with two other men to fight the Indians in Southern Utah and Arizona. He was assigned assign-ed to the territory in and about Fort Pierce. He did guard duty from November 27 to December 21. In the following year he was mustered out again and saw service ser-vice in and around the vicinity of Washington. Mr. Sandberg was married to (Continued on page eight) Neils Sandberg Funeral (Continued from first page) Harriet Blake of St. George, Jan. 29, 1881, In the St. George Temple. Later with his wife and four children, ho moved to St. George, where he resided until the death of his wife In 1926. In January, 1893 he received a letter from Box "B" to fill a mission for his church in Europe. His Bishop urged him not to go at that time on neeount of his financial circumstances cir-cumstances but his wife Insisted that he obey the call. After twenty-six months of missionary Inlxir in Sweden the land of his birth and childhood he was honorably honor-ably released. Thrift was the keynote of Mr. Sandberg's life. lie was successful success-ful in his chosen vocation of farming and cattle raising. lie materially aided his seven children in gaining college educations. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Nellie Jones, of Springville; three daughters. Miss Josephine Sandberg, Sand-berg, Salt Lake City: Mrs, Manila Filgerald. Draper; Mrs. Vilate S. Stewart, Logan: four sons, Neils Jr. and Knos, of Salt Ijike City; Chaunecy. of Hurricane and Merrill, Mer-rill, of I'rovo; seventeen grandchildren grand-children and one great grandchild. |