Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-10-11 | Page 12 | Prominent Utah Stockman Dies

PR07.1INENT UTAH STOCKMAN DIES WOODS CROSS Stearns B. Hatch, 85. head of one of the west's largest sheep enterprises and prominent L. D. S. church official, offi-cial, died at his home, here Tuesday night after four years' Illness. From early youth Mr. Hatch was a leading figure m Davis county church and business affairs. Except Ex-cept for a year and a half In the Bear lake region of Idaho, he lived In Davis county all of his life. He was born December (. 1853, In South Bountiful ward, a son of Ira S. and Jane Bee Hatch. Mr. Hatch's numerous business enterprises Included the presidency - of the Deseret Livestock company, the Hatch Brothers Stock company and the Woods Cross Canning company. com-pany. He was a director of the Bountiful State Bank since its founding. From 1905 until 1915 he was bishop of the South Bountiful L. D. S. ward and later was a counselor In the South Davis presidency and high councilman In the Davis L. D. 8. stake. Surviving are three sons, Ira Stearns Hatch of Salt Lake City -"Wid John L and MIWord Wr Hatch of Woods Cross; six daughters, Mrs. David Howard of Woods Cross, Mrs. . Melvln Nelson and Mrs. George Reed of Clearfield, Mrs. Leona I. Wilson of Fsrmington, Mrs. Oscar Eskelson of Kantaa and Mrs. John C Smith of La Verne, Cal.; 42 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral services win be conducted con-ducted Sunday at 3 p. m. In the South Bountiful U D. S. ward chapel bv Walter Moss, bishop. Internment In-ternment will be In the Bountiful cemetery.