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Show NIBLEY RITES AT TABERNACLE 1 Impressive Services Attended By Over 6,500; Grant, Ivins Speak. LOGAN, Dec. 14. (L'.) Charles Wilson Niblcy, 82, second counselor of the first presidency of the L. D. S. church, came back home today for home, to the late noted Mormon church leader, has ever meant Cache valley where he spent a great part of his life. Funeral services for President j Nibley, who died Friday after a j three weeks' illness, were held at lhe Salt Lake tabernacle yesterday. Th?y were attended by approxi-matPly approxi-matPly 65n0. After the services, the funeral ?ortege proceeded northward to Logan, Utah, when? the body was ;nt erred after brief graveside i.rr-'ices. i.rr-'ices. At the Salt Lake services, President Presi-dent Hcber J. Grant, Anthony VV. ;vms, first counselor of the fir:-,t presidency, and Arthur Winter, secretary-treasurer of lhe L. D. !:. board of education, spoke of Mr. Sibley's spiritual and civic accomplishments. accom-plishments. Telegrams sympathy conlinued to arrive. Sunday, included among '.hem were mrny from noted persons: per-sons: T. M. Schumacher, chairman of the board of the Western Pacific Pa-cific : Louis S. Cates, president of th.- Phelps Dodge corporation; J. P. O'Brien, vice president and geneial manager of the O. W. II. & N. railroad rail-road ; 1 leber M. Wells, first governor gov-ernor of Utah; F. W. Robinson, vioe president of the Union Pacific; Dr. John A. Widtsoe, president L. D. S. European mission ; D. C. Green, former vice president of the Utah Power & Light company, and Senator Reed Smoot. j President Nibley became ill over three weeks ago with bronchitis. ! He was unable to throw off the ; serious cold and soon a kidney j complication developed. Finally, pneumonia set in, and it was this i last complication that brought j death at 12:50 p. in. Friday. i |