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Show SERVICES HELD SUNDAY FOR . GUYMENDENHALL The Fourth ward chapel was crowded to capacity at funeral services Sunday for Guy W. Men-denhall, Men-denhall, prominent church, civic, and business leader of this city, who died unexpectedly Friday morning of a heart attack at his home, 141 East Center street. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by A. Y. Wheeler Wheel-er & Son mortuary. Mr. Mendenhall was born in Springville, January 19, 1870, a son of Thomas and Mary Deal Mendenhall, Menden-hall, Springville pioneers. He had lived in this city most of his life, and at the time of his death was senior member of one of the major construction companies of this city. At the age of 13 years, he began his career as a construction contractor, con-tractor, being associated with his father, in railroad construction work. At various times he has been associated with the Roe Deal and Guy W. Mendenhall Construction Co., Deal Brothers & Mendenhall, Mendenhall, Strong & Bird Co., W. W. Clyde and Mendenhall, and in recent years he organized the Mendenhall Men-denhall & Sons Construction Co. He assisted with establishment in 1888 of the Deal Brothers & Mendehall store, a leading business concern. Two years later, with his fathers and brothers, he purchased purchas-ed 10,000 acres of land in Elberta, Canada, and for a number of years operated a large ranch and farm in that vicinity. With establishment of the Mendenhall Men-denhall Banking company in 1908, he was employed as cashier and later became bank president. He was also one of the first bookkeep-pers bookkeep-pers for the Springville Banking company. , For a number of years he was chairman of the Springville Red Cross chapter and had also served in the city council. He served a short term mission in California in 1927. He was at one time in the First ward bishopric bishop-ric and was also superintendent of the First ward Sunday school. He married Elmina Bramall, March 23, 1898, in the Salt Lake temple. Surviving besides his widow are seven sons and daughters, W. Deal, V. Cornell, Mrs. Odessa Child, Mrs. Alberta Hoover, Mrs. Elmina Mad-sen, Mad-sen, of Springville; Howard Mendenhall, Men-denhall, Richfield; and Mrs. Ruth Dixon of San Francisco, Calif.; also 24 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two brothers and two sisters, Mrs. Mary M. Oakes, Arlene, and B. M. Mendenhall of Springville, and Bayard Mendenhall Menden-hall of Salt Lake City. |
