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Show Heber Sessions-Dies Sessions-Dies At 95 Years Heber John Sessions, 95. former mayor of Farmington and station agent for the U nion Pacific Railroad at Farmington for 30 years, died Dec. 30, 1980 in Salt Lake City. HE SERVED as mayor of Farmington from 1936 to 1937, was a telegrapher and station agent for the Union Pacific Railroad and a station agent at Brigham City for ten years until un-til his retirement in 1952. He was a charter member of the Union Pacific Railroad Old Timers Club and became a member of the Golden Spike centennial celebration cast in 1969. MR. SESSIONS was born in Bountiful on July 13, 1885 to Perrigrine and Sarah Ann Bry-son Bry-son Sessions. His father was one of the founders of Bountiful. Bounti-ful. He married Artulus Hol-brook Hol-brook on July 5, 1907 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died May 5, 1962. He married Essie Yeager and she died in 1966. He then married Fern Edmunds and she died in 1974. HE SERVED a mission for the LDS Church in Dallas. Texas from 1928 to 1929 and was active in his church all his life. He is survived by a son, Lawrence H. of Long Beach, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Thais (Alice) Merrill, Pullman. HEBER J. SESSIONS Wash.; Mrs. William A. (Ire-na) (Ire-na) Hamilton, Melbourne, Fla.; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and 21 great-great-grandchildren. ALSO SURVIVING are a sister, Patty Sessions Mann, Salt Lake City; two stepsons, George F. Edmunds, Salt Lake City; Phil Edmunds, Draper and one stepdaughter, Betty Black, Arcadia, Calif. Funeral services were held on Jan. 2, 1981 in the Farming-ton Farming-ton Rock Chapel, 272 North Main. Interment was in the Farmington City Cemetery, kj |