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Show FINE TRIBUTES PAID LIFE OF BELOVED MAN Impressive funeral services were held in the Spriugville First ward chapel last Sunday afternoon for John Nelson Peterson, who died at the family home in this city Wednesday, Wed-nesday, September 22, following an illness of several months brought on by pneumonia. The services were in charge of T. II. Greener. The invocation was by Orson Hutchinson. The opening musical number ''The Vacant Chair" was sung by the First' ward male quartet. The speakers, all of whom paid fine tribute to the life of their departed friend, were Patriarch O. B. Huntington. A. W. Ilarmer and President G. R. Maycock. A cello solo, "A Perfect Day." was played by Chauncey Childs. Other musical numbers were "Come Vnto Me," by a mixed quartet: a vocal solo. "Oh, My Father." by Elmo El-mo Coffma and "Pale in the Amber Am-ber West," by the male -quartet. The benediction was by John Manwaring. Interment was in the city cemetery, under the direction of the Wheeler Home Mortuary. Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden, Swe-den, January 22. 1S"2. When a boy of 12 he came to America and ten years later he settled in Spriugville, Spriug-ville, where he had since lived. January 12, 1874, he was married to Frances Giles, who. with three sons and three daughters, survive. They are Mrs. Iiosella Gatherum of Sait Lake City; Mrs. Ida Horton. Provo : J. William. George and Andrew Peterson, and Mrs. Ronald Beard-all, Beard-all, all of Spriugville ; also two adopted children. Mrs. Lei a Lison-bee. Lison-bee. Delta, and Leslie Peterson of Salt Lake City. Six children preceded pre-ceded him in death. He was a devout de-vout member of the L. 1. S. church. |