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Show Former Kane Co. Man Dies Here; Buried August 24th At Kanab Funeral services were held Monday Mon-day at 4 p. m., in the Kanab stake house for Jedediah Grant Shum-way, Shum-way, 76, who died at his home in St. George Saturday, Aug. 22. at 4 p. m., of cardiac asthma, after a lingering illness . of eight months. A large group of St. George friends and relatives accompanied ac-companied the family to Kanab for the services and there were many beautiful floral tributes. Musical numbers included three selections by the Kanab stake choir, vocal duets by Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Tietjen; solos by George M. Shields, and violin solo by Algie Brown, all of Kanab, and long associated with the Shumway family. Speakers At Services Speakers included Patriarch Geo. E. Miles of St. George, Bishop Edward Lamb of Mt. Carmel, Pres. Charles Heaton of Kanab stake, and Bishop Andrew Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur of St. George South ward, of which Mr. Shumway has been a resident for several years. Born as Mendon, Cache county, Utah, April 1, 1866, his parents were Charles and Henrietta Bird Shumway. He was aged six when the family answered the call to help settle Kane county, then one of the southern outposts of western west-ern Mormondom, making Johnson their home. Here as a young boy, Mr. Shumway .began accumulating cattle and became one of the prominent men in that industry in Kane county. On December 17. 1985, he was married in the St. George Temple to Elizabeth Robinson, who bore him six children, all of whom are living. She died July 28, 1927. In 1931 he married Ella Anderson of Glendale, Utah, who died in 1934. Later he came to St. George to engage in Temple work, and on Sept. 9, 1937, he married Annie Macfarlane of this city. Active In Civic Affairs Active always in civic and religious re-ligious affairs, he has filled two missions for the L. D. S. church 'in the southern states, one as a young man before his marriage, of two years duration, and a six months' mission in 1935. Four of his six children have filled missions. mis-sions. Prior to his illness, he spent eight years at Temple work. Surviving besides Mrs. Shumway Shum-way are the six children: Merlin G. Shumway, Preston Shumway and Mrs. Hubert Bunting; Nora Shumway of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Reed Mathis of St. George and Mrs. Grant Remund of Midway, 'Utah; nine grandchildren and j three brothers, William Shumway. American Fork; Charles, of Lov-: Lov-: ell., Wyo.; and Richard, of Tropic, Utah. |
