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Show Funeral Services Held Thursday r y, I r - tVv v s si -J- . v, I V - J GEORGE P. CLAY George P. Clay died Sept. 24 at home in Salt Lake City. BORN OCT. 1, 1907, in Morgan, Utah, a son of Henry Clay and Esther Louisa Phillips. Married Dorothy Anna Cliff, June 29, 1928, in the Salt Lake Temple. July 1st of this year they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. HE ATTENDED school in Bountiful, Davis High School, graduated from the University Univer-sity of Utah in 1930. Employed by the Utah State Tax Commission and was in the initial group hired to lay the ground work to be trained in income tax law, prior to, and in readiness for, Utah's first State Income Tax filing year in 1932. MR. AND Mrs. Clay moved to Kansas in 1938. While living liv-ing in Hutchinson and Wichita (17V4 years in each city), he was employed as a field agent and conferee for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. He retired from service ser-vice at the end of 1969. In January 1973, a Manti Temple mission call as ordained or-dained workers, brought them back to Utah. After two years service they were released because of his ill health. MR. CLAY .HAD served as the firsj" patriarch, In'the Wichita, Kansas Stake for seven years; was counselor in the new Wichita stake presidency for three and a-balf a-balf years; and was a counselor coun-selor to two mission presidents in the Central States Mission, Samuel R. Carpenter and G. Carlos Smith. He served on the mission mis-sion board, and was a coun selor in the Central Kansas District Presidency. He was called as the branch president in the first organized or-ganized branch of the church in Hutchinson, Kansas, serving serv-ing for 13'i years. Under his supervision the first LDS Chapel was erected in Hutchinson. BEFORE GOING to Kansas, Kan-sas, Mr. Clay was active in MIA and Scouting and had earned his Eagle and Order of the Arrow. He was the Scout Explorer leader his troop winning the church-wide archery championship. He sponsored the first IDS Scout Troop in Hutchinson, and also served on the O. and E. committee com-mittee there. He is survived by his wife and three daughters and six sons; George B., Ithaca, N.Y.; Orson C, Galveston, Texas; John P., Rhode Island; Robert D., Baton Rouge, La.; Dean C, Wichita, Kansas; Neil H., Palmyra, Pa.; Mrs. Gerald J. (Gayle) Maxfield, Orem; Mrs. Lynn K. (LouRae) Kramer, Lockhart, Texas; Mrs., Scott C. (Jean) Grover, Bountiful. A DAUGHTER, Lois, preceded him in death. 47 grandchildren and six great grandchildren; sister, Mrs. J. (Ester) Irvin; Layton; brother, R. Van, Bountiful; Vernon J., Kaysville. Funeral services were held Thursday 11 a.m. in the Cannon Can-non Ninth Ward in Salt Lake City. Viewing was Wednesday evening and Thursday at the church prior to the services. |