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Show "SERVICES HELD SUNDAY FOR JOHN L, EVANS . Funeral services for John L. Evans, manager of the local liquor agency, who died Thursday at his home following a lingering illness, were conducted Sunday afternoon, in the Fourth ward chapel, under direction of the Third ward bishopric. bishop-ric. Burial was under direction of A. Y. Wheeler and son. Mr. Evans was born in Spanish Fork April 1, 1895, a son of John H. and Polly Dudley Evans. His childhood was spent in Mammoth and, after the death of his mother when he was seven, with relatives at Benjamin and Lake Shore. In 1917 he married Mary Al-meda Al-meda Miner, and they made their home in Eureka for 11 years. He was secretary of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Ass'n. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Latter-Day Saints in Eureka and of the Eureka L D S ward recreation committee. He moved to Springville in 1928, and was employed at the Columbia steel plant at Ironton for a number num-ber of years. At the time of his death he was manager of the Springville liquor agency. Surviving are his widow and five ' sons and daughters, Mrs Dorothy I Hazel, Mrs. LaRue Hopkins" and I Nancy Evans, all of Springville; j Mrs. Louise Cranmer, Bakersfield, Cal.,- and John D. Evans, Belling-ham, Belling-ham, Wash.; five grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Hy Laird, Spring Canyon, Can-yon, Carbon county and a brother, Leonard Beckstrom, Lake Shore. |