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Show JACK FLETCHER SERVICES ARE CONDUCTED Many friends, former business associates and relatives were ill, attendance Sunday afternoon at I'uneral services held in the second sec-ond ward chapel Tor John -Jacli" Fletcher, prominent businessman and highly respected citizen ot this city, who died Thursday evening, at a Salt Lake City hospital, following a short illness. ill-ness. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery under direction of A.Y. Wheeler mortuary. Mr. Fletcher was born in Can-nonville, Can-nonville, Utah, - October 1U, lSSft, a son of Kendall and Emmer Asay Fletcher. He attended Murdock academy at Beaver and also the Branch Agricultural college at Cedar City, later graduating from the University of Utah. He taught school two years at the Lund school for boys at Centcrville and four years at Cannonville, where he also served as postmaster. postmas-ter. Mr. Fletcher was superintendent superin-tendent of Garfield county schools for a number of years. Later he engaged in the mercantile 'business in southern Utah. He was a member of the L. D. S. church and while living at Cannonville, served as ward clerk and also had charge of Boy Scout work hi that district. Mr. Fletcher came to Springville Spring-ville with his family in 1925, and had engaged in business here since that time. 'He operated three service stations and a retail re-tail grocery business. He was a" past vice president of the Springville Kiwanis club and at the time of his death was a director of the club and also director of the Springville cham-L'3r cham-L'3r of commerce. He married Mae Henderson, December 29, 1913, at Panguitch. Surviving are his widow, a daughter daugh-ter and three sons, Merle, J. Clele, Quentin H., and Wallace Reed Fletcher of Springville; a brother and three sisters, Mrs. Matilda Button and Mrs. Esther Golden of Cannonville; Joe Fletcher of Junction, anil Mrs. Orpha Jensen of Burley, Idaho. |