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Show Claudius Williams Succumbs At 78 CLAUDIUS S. WILLIAMS Claudius Spencer Williams, age 78, born Sept. 7, 1904 in Rockport, Ut., died July 8, 1982 in a local hospital of a heart attack. He was the son of Claudius and Lucetia Adeline Gibbons Williams and married Laurena Melba Parkinson in the Salt Lake LDS Temple June 1, 1926. HE WAS employed 47 years with the Union Pacific railroad and retired in 1972 He was past president of the U.P. Old Timers Tim-ers Club and served as a Sun day school superintendent in several wards, a branch president presi-dent in Rawlins, Wyo. for 1 1 years and on the Lyman Stake High Council and as a high Priest group leader in Bountiful. Bounti-ful. He was an usher in the Tabernacle for 8 years and a member of the Bountiful 11th Ward. He is survived by his wife of Bountiful; sons, Blaine and Dean Williams, both of Layton; LaVar Williams, Bountiful; Glade Williams, Lovell, Wyo.; daughters, Arlene Fenton, West Valley; Lorraine Walton, Kearns, 29 grandchildren and 20 greatgrandchildren; great-grandchildren; sister, Fawn Smith of Wanship. FUNERAL SERVICES were held July 10, 1982 in the Bountiful Boun-tiful 11th Ward. Interment in the Bountiful Memorial Park under the direction of Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary. |