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Show Samuel T. Bleak Dies In Salt Lake Hospital, Monday, October 5th Samuel T. Bleak, 77, died at 1 p. m., Monday in a Salt Lake City hospital after ten-days' illness ill-ness following surgery. He had gone to Salt Lake City to be near his son, Dr. Samuel Bleak, who was hospitalized, when surgery surg-ery for himself became necessary. He had always been in good health until recently. Bishop Andrew -McArthur of the South ward conducted funeral fun-eral services Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 4 p. m., in the St. George stake Tabernacle. Mrs. Ada Cannon presided at the organ, and arranged ar-ranged the music program, which included vocal solos, "O, My Father", by Vernon Worthen, Ruth Falck, accompanying; "Rock of Ages", Clive Hartman, accompanied accom-panied by Mae A. Pace; violin solo, "Traumeri", by Mrs. Irene Everett, with Ada Cannon at the piano; and, vocal solo, "End of A Perfect Day", by Mrs. Mack Jackson, accompanied by Paul Thompson. Speakers At Services Speakers were Pres. Harold S. Snow, Dr. W. J. Reichmann and Albert E. Miller, with short closing clos-ing remarks by Bishop McArthur. All praised Mr. Bleak for his useful life, for his devotion to his wife and family, for their cooperation co-operation in rearing their splendid splen-did family of girls and boys and giving them the advantages of education ed-ucation and training of music and sciences which prepared them for useful and important community service. Mention was made by Mr. Miller of Mr. Bleak's training train-ing under his uncle, Wm. H. (Continued on page eight) Samuel Bleak Funeral (Continued from first page) Thompson, as a plumber, of his skill in this work and of his contributions con-tributions to the educational system sys-tem of the Woodward school and the preservation of that building. Bishop McArthur told of his strict payment of tithes and offering, of his devout faith and of the companionship com-panionship he held with his family, fam-ily, and their complete acceptance of this closing of his life as a benediction to his 77 years of usefulness. use-fulness. Prayers were by Milton E. Moody ana Gordon Mathis; the grave in the city cemetery being dedicated by John T. Woodbury Jr. Members of the college and Woodward faculty were pallbearers. pall-bearers. Born in St. George Sept. 20, 18(55, he was a son of James G. and Jane Thompson Bleak. His parents hailed from England and were both prominent in the civic and religious development of St. George, coming with the pioneers pio-neers of 1S61. He grew up when hardships were plentiful and at the age of ten drove team in hauling rock for the Temple and later in hauling soil for the grounds. Although he was not prominent in religious or community com-munity activities otherwise, he was always a contributor to civic and religious improvement and has held the rank of high priest for many years and been an officer of-ficer in his respective priesthood quorums. Married In Temple He was married in the St. George Temple July 14, 1887 to Lucy Calkin, daughter of Asa and Agnes Perks Calkin. They were the parents of 13 children. His wife died on October 4, 1938. With the completion of the Woodward school in 1901, he became be-came its first custodian and janitor, jani-tor, holding that position for 26 years, until 1927. His skill in mechanics saved the county hundreds hun-dreds of dollars in repairs to furnace, building, plumbing, furniture, furn-iture, etc. Along with this work he also acquired the plumbers' trade, which he has followed since 1927, continuing his work until two weeks ago, when he made his trip to Salt Lake City. Surviving are four sons: Dr. Samuel Bleak, of Salt Lake City; Prof. Earl J. Bleak and Willard Bleak, of St. George; Donald Bleak, Los Angeles; and three daughters, Mrs. Ferdinand Stucki, Mrs. E. Eric Snow and Mrs. Owen Pendleton, all of St. George; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. With him at the time of his death in Salt Lake City were Dr. Samuel Bleak, Mrs. Stucki and Mrs. Snow. They returned to St. George with the body Tuesday. |
