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Show BISHOP RICKS DIES AT REXBURG, IDAHO Word was received here last night from ( Rexburg, Idaho, of the death there of Bishop Thomas E. Ricks, G3 years of age, a resident of the town for the past thirty-five thirty-five years. Bishop Ricks was a former member of the Idaho state livestock sanitary san-itary board, vice president of the Flann Mercantile company and a director of the Farmers and Merchants bank. He had been a leading stock and sheep grower, merchant and banker of the upper up-per Snake River valley. He had been bishop for the past twenty-five years. Bishop Ricks is survived by the following follow-ing children, all of Rexburg: Thomas F. Ricks, Jr., Mrs. Floretta Ricks Webster, Joel Ricks and Preston Ricks. Announcement An-nouncement of the funeral arrangements will be made later. |