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Show SITU FML TO TIKE PUCE SUNDAY Obsequies of Apostle of the Mormon Church Will Be Conducted in Tabernacle. Fuueral services for Apostle HvTiira M. bmith, el'lest Fon of President Joseph Jo-seph r. iSmilh of tbe Mormon church, who died t the L. D. P. hospital Wednesday night; will bo held Buudav at 1 o'clock, in the tabernacle. Interment In-terment will take place in the family plot in the City cemetery. Apostle Smith v'as taken ill Friday evening with appendicitis, and bis condition con-dition rapidly became serious. He was removed to the L. D. S. hospital, where an operation was performed. Peritonitis Perito-nitis developed and death followed. Hyrum Mack Smith was born in Salt Lake, March 21, 1S72. He was educated edu-cated in the public schools of the city and tho Latter-day Saints university. He married Miss Ida Bowman of Ogden November lo, 1895, and went on a. mission to Great Britain. He was assigned as-signed to the Leeds conference and later la-ter presided over the Newcastle conference. con-ference. He returned to Salt Lake in 1838. As a voung man he was employed by tho 2.' C M. I. and was an active home missionary. He acted as assistant teacher and corresponding secretary of the twenty-fourth quorum of seventies and also served as secretary of tho Sunday Sun-day schools of Granite stake. He was formally ordained as an apostle .by his father on October 24, 1001. In 1904 he was s-ummoned to Washington, Wash-ington, X). (!., to give tostimony in tho case of Senator Reed Smoot, who was defending his right to a seat in the United States senate. Besides his parents, brothers, sisters and widow, Apostle Smith is survived by four children, chil-dren, Joseph F., 18, Geraldine, 14, Margaret, Mar-garet, 10, and Maxino, 6 years of age. |