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Show Edmund Cragun to celebrate 80th birthday Edmund Cragun, well-known businessman, will be honored on his 80th birthday with an Open House, Sunday March 18, at his home, 235 East First North St., throughout the day. Friends and relatives are invited. in-vited. Mr. Cragun was bom in Pleasant View, Weber county. March 19, 1882, a son of Wil-ford Wil-ford E. and Mary Ellis Cragun, the seventh child in a family i i f . t'.rf-:.& i ri Vegas, Nev. They -also reared two grandchildren in their home, Dorlynn Cragun and Nyla Sundquist of Orem; ; also an adopted daughter Mane Brennan C. Johnson a member mem-ber of the Catholic church who was converted to the LDS church. There are also 17 grandchildren and 22 great, grandchildren. Edmund Cragun, SpringvJla grocier, who will note his 80th birthday of thirteen. I He attended school in Pleasant Pleas-ant View and Ogden and also worked on the family farm in Pleasant View and later in Orem. He served on an LDS two-and-a-half -year mission in Ausr trailia in 1902 and was called on a short-term mission to Canada in December 1925. He has always been active in LDS 'church work, serving in the Orem Windsor ward bishopric ten years and in the Timpanogos stake presidency, 10 years. Many LDS general authorities have been guests in his home. Since moving to Springville in 1939, he has worked as a ward teacher and as genealogy chairman. He and his w.ife spend three months each year, doing temple work at St. George. He has done work in all the temples in the United States. He married Ellen Mower, November 22, 1905 and she passed away in February 1950. In 1953, he married Sarah Bigler, who died in February 1953. He married Mary Snow Lowry August 28, 1953. He has three sons by his first wife: W. Rumel Cragun, with whom he is now in partnership part-nership in a grocery business; Edmund M. Cragun of Orem and Oscar M. Cragun of Los |