OCR Text |
Show JOSEPH GRANQUIST, LONGTIME RESIDENT, BURIED WEDNESDAY Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Wednesday afternoon in the Swedish Lutheran church for Joseph J. Granquist, 67, employe of the Utah Copper company, who died Saturday at 3:05 a.m. in Bingham hospital of a lung ailment. Mr. Granquist had been ill a year and confined to the hospital a week. He suffered an injury in a fall seven months ago and never recovered. He had lived in Bingham for 44 years. Born in Tevejara, Finland, on November 1, 1879, Mr. Granquist came to United States at the age of 16. Seven years later he came to Bingham and was employed for many years as a miner. For the past 12 years he served as a watchman for the Utah Copper company. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sophia Smith Granquist, whom he married in Bingham November Novem-ber 23, 1899; two sons, Severn J. Granquist of Bingham and Walter Walt-er E. Granquist, with the U. S. army in Alaska; and two daughters, daugh-ters, Mrs. Vera G. Smith of Murray Mur-ray and Mrs. LeJeune Latimer of Bingham. |