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Show Funeral Services Held Tues. for Willis A. Weight Iiii.uiuimnii uu). ..mm in i u ii u .! miii i. imii , . - v . t i : ' i" ' Willis A. (Wick) Weight, 64, for whom funeral services were held Tuesday in the Springville Stake House. Many friends and relatives paid tribute to the life of Willis Wil-lis Alfred (Wick) Weight, 64, at funeral services Tuesday afternoon, af-ternoon, in the Stake House under direction of Bishop Wm. Pratt of the Sixth Ward. He passed away Saturday at a Provo hospital after a long illness which had confined him to the hospital the past ten months. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by Wheeler Mortuary. Born in Springville October 27, 1895, he was a son of Alfred Al-fred & Eunice Noakes Weight. He married Mary Hogan November No-vember 28, 1917, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He attended schools here and graduated from the local high school, where he was prominent promin-ent in athletics being a member mem-ber of Springville's first basketball bas-ketball team to take the state tournament in 1917. A member of the LDS Church, he was secretary of the High Priests Quorum in the Sixth ward and had worked in the presidency of the YM-MIA YM-MIA and Sunday School. He had served as toastmaster for many events. Mr. Weight was a farmer most of his life, and for the last eight years was employed by Springville City. Surviving are his widow of Springville, five sons and three daughters, Grant Weight, Paul Weight and Mrs. Jerry (Linda) Cluff of Springville; Mrs. Earl (Joyce) Prestwich, Orem; Ro bert Weight, Rivera, Calif.; Meade Weight, San Bernardino, Bernar-dino, Calif.; Mrs. Joseph (La-Rue) (La-Rue) Sanders, Rose Meade, Calif, and Jay L. Weight, Pasadena, Pasa-dena, Calif.; 28 grandchildren, four brothers and one sister, Wm. Weight, Ernest Weight, Nolan Weight, and Mrs. Nellie W. Condie all of Springville, and Arch Weight of Salt Lake City. |