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Show HEART AILMENT FATAL TO RETIRED FARMER Eastham Clegg Dies . At Home of Daughter; Funeral To Be Sunday Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted in the First ward chapel Sunday, at 2 p. m., for Israel East-ham East-ham Clegg, 62, well-known retired re-tired farmer and cattleman, who died Wednesday at 1:30 a. m., at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Hilda Hil-da Nelson, Ogden. He had been in ill health for some time, suffering suffer-ing from a heart ailment, and, with Mrs. Clegg, had been in Ogden Og-den for the past few months. Friends may call at the Claudin J funeral home Saturday, and at the family residence, 473 South, 4th East, Saturday evening and Sunday Sun-day before, the services. Burial will be in the City cemetery. He was born in Springville, April Ap-ril 24, 1882, a son of Israel E. and Verona A. Noakes Clegg. He had lived here most of his life and had taken an active part in civic, religious and political affairs of the community. For twelve years he served as a Springville city council member, and was a member of the Utah County Drainage committee sixteen years. He also served on the local irrigation irriga-tion board for six years and was a member of the Springville Cattle Cat-tle association board for several years. A charter member of the Springville-Mapleton Black Hawk Indian War Veterans committee, for six years, he served as captain cap-tain and previously served as secretary sec-retary and treasurer of the committee com-mittee for eight years. He was president of the First ward Elders quorum over a period of- sixteen years, and in 1924 was made a high priest of Kolob stake. For a number of years, he was Republican district chairman. - He sold his cattle business and farm in 1941, and had been retired since that time. He married Laura E. Larsen on January 11, 1905, in the Salt Lake temple. His widow and five daughters survive him, as follows: Mrs. Grace Stubbs and Mrs. Hilda Nelson, Nel-son, Ogden; Mrs. Laura Simpson, Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. Leona Poul-son Poul-son and Mrs. Marie Peay, Springville; Spring-ville; also seven grandchildren, a brother and three sisters, Mrs. Ella Whiting, Mrs. Mabel Law, Mrs. Ida Bird and Lewis Clegg of Springville. |