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Show Funeral Services Held Sunday, Mar. 30, For Lecnerd S. Conger Funeral services were held in the St. George stake Tabernacle Sunday Sun-day March 30, at 3:30 p. m. for Leonard S. Conger, 79, who died in St. George at 12:30 p. m. Saturday of ailments incident to age. He had been ill two years following a stroke. Services were conducted under direction of the St. George L.D.S. west ward bishopric with counselor counse-lor Grant Whilehoad presiding, and Mrs. Mae A. Pace at the organ. Music numbers included a vocal solo "The Lord's Prayer," by Ruth . Allen Miles; and "My Father Knows," by Vernon Worthen, and vocal duet, "I Shall Not Pass Again This Way," by Mamie Pax-man Pax-man and Viola Gentry, with Mrs. Pace accompanying. Speakers were Thomas S. Terry and George W. Worthen, both of whom praised the deceased for his long years of honest labor in assisting the upbuilding of Dixie; of his good citizenship and his (Continued on page eight) Conger Funeral (Continued from first page) devotion to his family and friends. Mr. Terry gave a brief history of Mr. Conger's life and Mr. Worthen sermonized on the eternity etern-ity of life and the plan set by the Master for attaining salvation. Prayers were by V. W. Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur and Haven Paxman, and the grave in the city cemetery was dedicated by George F. Whitehead. Leonard S. Conger was born in Salt Lake City June 27, 1861, a son of Leonard and Elizabeth R. Saunders Conger. He was just four months old when his parents moved to Dixie, with the Pioneers of 1861, taking up a large tract of land along the Santa Clara Creek which became known as the Conger Farm, and is now a part of the Paiute Indian Reservation Reser-vation six miles northwest of Santa Clara. Here the family became be-came known for their agricultural pursuits. When a young boy Leonard S. Conger learned the expert handling of horses. He followed farming and freighting throughout his life, especially as a mining freighter during the periods of Silver Reef, Grand Gulch and Dixie Mines. He was always known for the good horses he drove and for his expert work as a teamster. He also drove mail for long periods and had many interesting as well as dangerous experiences connected with his early day freighting. January 1, 1893, he married Artimetia Westover of Washington who died March 9, 1936. They had resided in St. George with exceptions ex-ceptions of brief periods when he was working at nearby smelters in mining operations. Surviving are their one daughter Mrs. Morris Whitehead of St. George, one sister, Mary E. Conger, Con-ger, also of St. George and a grandaughter, Mrs. Berneice Peterson Pet-erson of San Francisco. Mr. Conger was a resident at the Old Folks home at Anderson's Ranch at the time the building was destroyed by fire one month ago. and has since resided in St. George. |