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Show EMS STEPHENS -PASSES AWAY 1 SALT LAKi: CITY, Oct 23. d'.IH --Death ended the career cf a noted j j Utah musician laslJ night rtcn ( , Prcf. Evan Stephens, 70, composer . . and foimor director ana. organizer , ! of the Mormon tabernacle choir. : -i succumbed following a brief illness. , ; Two weeks ago Prof. Stephens j , ' ',-.-f cred a stroke of apoplexy, since j then his death has been expected I , I momentarily. j Prof. Stevens composed many . hymns, an'hems. cantatas and oneras-in fact his life to been devoted to composing slnrc he re- ; turned in V.r.6 fro'-r l"-.e leadership j of the tabernacle choir. Prcf. Stooho-.is was ,rominently identified with the L. D. S. church. ! His parents were converted to the Mormon faith in 1866 and moved f,om Wales to America. The Stephens Steph-ens family settled at Willard wdierc Stephens first began his musical j career as a boy of 17. |