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Show '? Services Today . . . i i " -1 r ! ! - :x xj : j - & ' - -j t " ' I ' 1 L ..!.. : Otis iA. Payzant Funeral Services Today, 2 p.m., For 0. A. Payzant Funeral services will be conducted conduc-ted today Thursday at 2 p m.. in the Second-Eighth ward church for Otis Ailen Payzant, 73, who died Sunday morning in a Salt Lake City hospital, following a major operation. Bishop Melvin J. Duke of the Eighth ward, will be in charge oi the services. Friends may call at the family home, 59 East Third South, before be-fore the services. Burial will be in the Salem cemetery, under direction direc-tion of the A. Y. Wheeler and Son Mortuary. Mr. Payeant a retired railroad engineer, was born in Gilmington, Wis., May 1, 1883. a son of John Dexter and Mary Emma Bucher Payzant. He came to Utah with his family as a youth and received receiv-ed his education in Spanish Fork schools. He married Emma C. Peterson October 18, 1911 and the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mr. Payzant retired from the railroad in 1947 after working 38 years for the D & R G railroad (Continued on page two) Funeral Services Today For Otis A. Payzant (Continued from page one) company. He was a member of the LDS church holding the office of High Priest and was serving High Priest secretary at the time of his death. He had also been active in genealogical work in the wards in which he had resided. Survivors include his wife of Springville; one brother and eight sisters, Reuben Payzant, Mrs. Del-light Del-light Baker and Mrs. Georgia Alder Al-der of Salt Lake City; Mrs. Alice Hughes, Mrs. Cleo Strang and Mrs. Annie Lovejoy of Los Angeles, An-geles, Calif.; Mrs. May Bradford and Mrs. Bessie Sorenson of Span-, ish Fork; Mrs. Bertha Fife of South Gate, Calif. |