| Show THOMAS THOMASD D DEE I Dr w iT a e l THOMAS D b DEE 1 i PASSES TO DEATH I Most Important Citizen E Ex Expires pires This Horning ILL III SINCE WEDNESDAY AY PNEUMONIA CAU CAUSED ED BY W WET WETTiN T TiNG TiN TH CAUSE CAUSE 1 July 9 ThOmas D D Dee OGDEN U Is dead He passed away at 1 15 this morning succumbing to an attack of pneumonia wl which ch developed Saturday and made such progress that In a few hours he was beyond hope of NewS ot of hl his serious did not net be become become come generally generall known till late last oven even evenIng tog Ing It then became the sole topic ot of discussion amongst business men and tidings from the bedside of the tho foremost citizen were awaited with Jet lety most Intense A consultation ot of leer Ogden Oden physicians was held In the early afternoon Drs Dra Conroy Conro Carnahan Coul Comil Coulter ter and Perkins but each pronounced the case caso practically Dr Allen summoned from Salt Lake arrived on time the Short Line train a few minutes alter aCter death had ended the sufferings All the members ot of his family were present when the end came also Judge H H Rol 1 and Charles C Richards close personal friends Dr Conroy and Dr Judge Dee had been ailing since Wednesday da evening hut but It was not thought be serious Fever developed and symptoms of bronchial at F Fiday day night he was too ill to attend th the meeting of the board of edu education education cation A short time before his death he lansed Into unconsciousness Up to that time he betrayed no sinn sin that he expected death amsi his remarkable for fortitude fortitude encouraged those about him and made the final stroke all the more sud sudden sudden den and grievous to his family and Thomas Duncombe Dee was born Nov 10 1844 at Llanelly South His parents were Thomas ThomasH H Dee and Elizabeth Reese Rees Dee He came to Utah with thorn them In 1860 settling In Ogden where he has lived ever since sinceRe Re He leaves heaves seven soven children Mrs Irs Maud D Dee e Porter Mrs Elizabeth Dee Shaw Mrs Edith Dee M Mack ck Margaret Ree Rosabel Dee and Laurence Dee His wife also sur survIves survives vIves him In the earlier ds days of his wor worin worn in Ogden he wa police pollee judge of the mu and later served a number of terms as councilman He was made a member of the state bOard of equalization bo by Governor Wells and has served in that capacity ever eer since being reappointed once by Governor Wells ells and later by Gov Gor Governor Cutler In church work he be was second counsellor to James Taylor of Mount Fort ward Sick Since Wednesday Judge Des Dees illness dates from day last when he wont up east of Hunts Huntsville yule ville to South Fork canyon anyon to inspect the reservoir sItes recently located as the basis or of a new irrigation and power en enterprise in which was interested He went up with M 11 S Browning in an auto automobile automobile mobile b by a a number of hiS other business associates While inspect inspecting lag ing the site lie be slipped Into the water waler gt get getting ting Ung wet to his waIst Although the da day was warm and but little Importance was attached to it nevertheless later in Ia the day a chill developed and Mr Dee grew gradually v worse ti till yesterday a afternoon f O g pneumonia a av ai set i in n and nr from that a time it made rapid progress In Ogden Judge Dee has hru been easily Its foremOst citizen for two decades Tile The city Thins perhaps s and greater political prestige but none f 15 so closel closely and conspicuously Identified with so man many Important t enterprises which enter Into the financial and aud industrial welfare ot of the city county and state Whatsoever h he undertook h he worked at ati ato atwith with i a th thoroughness an Intelligence l ce and anda a broad o comprehensive g h mentality it itce t that soon made him master or of the subject Among the enterprises In which Judge Dee Is the president or at least in which he is a leading heading officer and worker are the followIng First National bank of Ogden Ogden Savings bank Utah Construction company Ogden Rapid Transit company Eccie Lumber company compan Glenwood ParK Pam company Utah Canning company Ogden Waterworks company Dee i r Stanford Shoe company p ny Ogden Furniture ur Carpet company compan Ogden f Northwestern Railway company Troy Steam Laundry Laundr company compan Ogden Hot sanitarium company Wilcox Grocery company Weber Webe Canyon Power company Ogden Cracker Biscuit company Weber County Count Fair Association Amalgamated Sugar company Ogden Pressed Brick Tile company Oakley State bank Oakley Ida Sumpter Valley Railway company compan Mt Hood Railway company Oregon HIs most moot conspicuous public service has been with the public DubUc school system or of Ogden with which he has been assocIated as a or member of the board or of education practically ever since the schools were organized and their splendid efficiency standS as a monument to hit his public Spirited unselfish work for the CAUse or of education For years he was WLl connected with the management ement ot of the schools Ever Eer since the or organization organization of the present board or of edu education education cation ho has been a member of that body from rom the Third ward being re reelected reelected elected each succeeding year and for the past eight years has its president |
