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Show Services Held Here Wednesday for J. M Sumsion, Dean of Contractors and four grandchildren; also three sisters, Mrs. Grace Mc-Kenzie, Mc-Kenzie, Mrs. Christie Lee and Mrs. Minetta Whiting all of Springville. Funeral services were held in the Springville Stake House Wednesday afternoon for James Mead Sumsion, 85, well-known Springville dean of contractors, who died Sunday afternoon at the family residence, 389 East First South, after an extended illness. Bishop Grant Nielson of the Tenth ward officiated at the services. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by Wheeler Mortuary. Mr. Sumsion was born in Springville April 27, 1873, a son of George and Ann Elizabeth Eliza-beth Bird Sumsion, early Springville settlers and had made his home here always. At an early age, he became associated with his brothers, the late Ernest, George and Henry Sumsion in railroad construction con-struction work forming the Sumsion Brothers Construction Company. Later he was in partnership with several other early-day railroad builders. Shortly before 1923, he retired re-tired from construction work and engaged in the feed store business in partnership with the late Ralph Smart. After several years, he and W. W. Clyde formed a construction con-struction company and he again launched out in the work he loved. Other later-day contractors contrac-tors with whom he worked on occasions were J. W. Whiting and also H. W. Glenn of Murray Mur-ray and he also operated alone for a number of years. In 1949, with his sons James C. and Richard M. (Dick), the J. M. Sumsion and Sons Construction Con-struction Company was formed and Mr. Sumsion continued working until ill health forced him to retire only a year ago. In recognition of the service he has rendered to the contracting con-tracting industry, the Associated Associa-ted General Contractors of America of which he was a member, presented him several years ago with a meritorious award. Memorials to his building build-ing ability may be seen throughout the western states. He was an Elder in his ward at the time of his death. He married Ina Maycock in March 1908 in the Salt Lake Temple and she died the following fol-lowing July. On March 9, 1926, he married Lela Coplan of Mesa, Arizona in the Salt Lake Temple. He is survived by his wife and two sons, James C. and Richard M. (Dick) Sumsion |