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Show Funeral Services Held Tues. for Reed Straw, 57 Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Tuesday forenoon in the Third-Ninth Ward chapel for Nephi Reed Straw, 57, lifelong life-long resident of Springville, who died Saturday morning of a heart condition at the home of a daughter, Mrs. William Hansen of Palmyra. Bishop Bliss Packard was in charge of the services. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery directed by Wheeler Mortuary. Mr. Straw was born in this city March 21, 1902, a son of Nephi and Nellie McKenzie Straw. He graduated from the Springville High School and attended Utah State University at Logan. He was employed with the state fish and game department depart-ment for a number of years and later for about 15 years on the rolling mills at Geneva. He was a member of the LDS Church. His wife, Stella Craig Straw, whom he married September 26 1924, died in 1951. Surviving the two daughters and a son: Mrs. William E. (Norma Nell) Hansen of Palmyra; Pal-myra; Mrs. Jerry (Carol Jean) Thcrn of Springville and Craig Straw of Salt Lake City; five grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. O. Earl Thomas of Provo; Mrs. James S, Perry, Salt Lake City; Mrs. H. J. Hatch, Logan. |