| Show PRESIDENT WINDER DEAD First Counselor to President of Mormon Mor-mon Church Succumbs to Pneumonia Salt Luke City John U Winder first counselor to President Joseph F Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints died at 730 oclock Sunday night Although the end came suddcny and unexpectedly the venerable man of the ago of 89 years was In full possession of his faculties Ills wife and son John R Winder Jr were at his bedside when he peacefully passed away While Mr Winder had been suffering suffer-ing from a lingering attack of acute pneumonia for more than two months his physical strength and wonderful mentality several times threw oft the malady It recurred however and despite his patient suffering and courage I cour-age the disease became the master and the man who for more than half a century has been so eminently prominent in tho upbuilding of the Mormon church and Salt Lake City succumbed President Winder was born at Bid donden Kent England on December 11 J821 Ho entered the Mormon I church In 1848 coming across the plains to Utah in 1853 The life of President Winder wa one of strenuous activity and replete with stirring deeds and events Bishop Winder was married four times and is survived by his latest wife Marie Burnham Winder He was the father of tventythree chill dren |
