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Show LAST TRIBUTE TO W.C.H0UTZ Funeral services were held in the Springville Fourth ward chapel Sunday afternoon, October 5, for Watson C. Houtz, 84 years of age, Utah pioneer of 1848, who died last Thursday at the Salt Lake county hospital, after a lingering illness of ailment incident to old age. S. L. Mendenhall of the ward bishopric was in charge. Music was furnished by the Mapleton male quartet, composed com-posed of Glenn Holley Carrol and Howard "Waters and Leslie Hautz, and the Fourth ward Indies' quartet, quar-tet, composed of Marjorie Parker, Helen Salisbury, Inez Wheeler and Helen Palfreyman. John S. Boyer, Sr., was the first speaker. - He told of his acquaintance acquaint-ance with Mr. Houtz, when they were boys together in Pennsylvania, also of their boyhood days in SpingviUe. Mr. Boyer was followed follow-ed by Seymour Mendenhall, Jr., who paid a tribute to Mr. Iloutz as one of the pioneers. The invocation was offered by Harold Alluman, and the benediction benedic-tion by John S. Boyer, Jr. Interment was in the. Evergreen cemetery under the direction of A. Y. Wheeler, undertaker. The grave was dedicated by C. W. Iloutz of Mapleton. Mr. Iloutz was married to Mrs. Sophia Wing in 1870. Seven children chil-dren were born, three surviving: Mrs. Bertha Hanson, Mt. Pleasant; M. A. Houtz, Xola ; C. W. Houtz, Nevada City, Calif. |
