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Show PRESIDENT OF STAKE HI OGDEN IS DEAD Thomas B. Evans Passes ; Away After an Illness i of Many Months. Special to The Tribune. OGDF..V, April o. Funeral services for T:iom:is B. Kvans. presiiient of tile Og-deu Og-deu flake ami a prominent leader in re-tisiou. re-tisiou. business anil political life of the city and county, who died at 9:S5 o'clock la.-t nixlit at the family residence, 9CS Twenty-fourth street, from a general breakdown, wiit be held at 'J o'clock Tiwrlav afternoon in the tabernacle. Tim body will lie in state at the home Monday afternoon and evening. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Joseph K. Kvans and Leland M. Kvans. sons of President Kvans, who have been in Washington, will arrive hi (ttrden on Tuesday morning. Reuben T. Kvmis. anotlier son. will arrive from Herkelev, Cal., Sunday morning. .Mr. kvans. was taken 111 a number of months au-o with a .stomach affliction, le relired from business, in which he had bepn enlaced for many years in Ogden. and accompanied by .Mrs. Kvans went tn California for a abort sojourn. He returned re-turned to Ob'den. 'but his condition did not improve. The end came last nislit at the family residence, 9SS Twenty-foi.r.l, Twenty-foi.r.l, street. His widow, most of tile, children and a brother, David YV. Kvans, county treasurer, were at tile bedside when deatii catne. Thomas PI. Kvans was born in Trey-corn. Trey-corn. Wales, February S, 1S;.!. He was baptized into the Mormon church by his father and was confirmed by James Baden, August 14. 1S47. He came to America in 1873. first going to Wyomine and later coming to Ogden. He followed railroad work for a number of years. With his savinKs he established a grocery business, widen became one of the big business concerns of the city. He retired re-tired in the fall of In the earlv davs of the city Mr. Kvans was one. of the organizers and members I of the Home Dramatic club, which enter-V enter-V tained many audiences In the city and "ounty and the northern part ' of Utah for manv years. He married Ruth Biair In Salt I.aite, March :3, l'.po. who. with the following children, survive him: Reuben T., Jo-sepn Jo-sepn K. and Isaac Blair Evans: Mrs. F.ii.abeth K. t'mith, Lawrence TT.. st. Harold, Arthur I... Leland M., and Rutli Kvans. Daid "W. Evans is a brother sua Mrs. Ann Price of Plymouth is a Mr. Evans was a member of the hoard of trustees of the state industrial school during Governor Cutler's term of office. He .was at the time of his death a member mem-ber of the boards -.' directors of the Dee Hospital and Weber Normal college and president of the oeuen stake, in addition 'o numeroi s other positions in tile affairs af-fairs of tM church in the county. Dur-Mig Dur-Mig the period of the war Mr. Evans rendered ren-dered splendid service as the assistant food administrator for the county. . He had alwavs been a faithful and energetic worker in his public life, as well as in religious work. Apostle David O. McKay, speaking of M Evans, said today: "Ogden has lost one of its best citizens. As a man in public life, lie was an ardent. e,.n-.sistenl. e,.n-.sistenl. oor-uanr worker, who did that wiioh he considered rigiit. (jeden will miss him and bis great influence; the church will miss him; his friends will miss him." |