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Show RITES HONORING THEO M. CHESLER SET FORMONDAY Theo M. Chesler, 64, prominent promin-ent Bingham business man and firoperty owner, died at the fami-y fami-y home at 382 Main street at 3:25 a.m. Thursday of uremic poisoning. He hud ?en in poor health for the past year, spending spend-ing over eight months in hospitals hos-pitals in Bingham and Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at two o'clock in the Evans and Early chapel at 574 East First South ' street, Salt Lake City, under direction of the Bingham mortuary. The body may be viewed from 10 a.m. Saturday until 3 p.m. Sunday at the Bingham mortuary chapel. Burial will be in the Montef iore section of the Salt Lake City cemetery. ce-metery. . Mr. Chesler had been in the motion picture business in. Bingham Bing-ham district since 1917, when, in Eartnership with Max Brisk, he egan operating a show house in Highland Boy. His long experience ex-perience with the recreation-seeking recreation-seeking public gave him a wide acquaintance with all ages and groups; He was generally very well-liked. On the rare occasions when he left Bingham for a vacation va-cation trip he hurried back, anxious anx-ious to be home where he "knew everyone and everyone knows me." ' . As a business man Mr. Chesler was of exceptionally sound judg-men. judg-men. He was unpretentious in success and consistently shunned display. His home, family and business were his all-absorbing interests. Mr. Chesler was born on December De-cember 7- 1878, in Keidan, Lithuania, Lithu-ania, a part of old Russia, the son of Ephraim and Annie Chesler. In 1898 the Chesler family left Lithuania to escape Jewish persecution and settled in Capetown, South Africa. As' a young man Mr. Chesler worked in a bicycle shop and as a plumber. plumb-er. He served as a permanent guard in the Boer war. In 1904 Mr. Chesler went to Chambertaiir'tSouth-'IJakota, " r where relatives were living. ,It was there Mr. Chesler met a cousin, Miss Sadie Brisk, whom he married in Sioux City, Iowa, -March 11, 1906. Mr. Chesler and a brother-in-law, Max Brisk, were in the grocery gro-cery business in Siour City from 1905 to 1912. In that year the partnership was dissolv- ed and Mr. and Mrs. Chesler went to Capetown for a visit, remaining re-maining two years. Mr. Chesldi' was in business in Capetown, manufacturing bicycles. A son, Harold Chesler, was born while the Cheslers were in. South Africa. Af-rica. On return to United States, the Cheslers came to Bingham Canyon. From 4914 to 1916 Mr. Chesler was an agent for the Metropolis tan Life Insurance company. Since 1917, when Mr. Chesler ' and Max Brisk entered the 'mo-' tion picture business, they have met and outlasted considerable competition. At the time of Mr. Chesler's death he and Mr. Brisk were partners in management of the Princess theatre. Mr. Chesler was a member of the B'Nai B'Rith lodge and the Congregation Montefiore. He was active in the Bingham Lions club. Surviving Mr. Chesler are his wife, Sadie Brisk Chesler; a son, Harold Chesler, ' and grandson, Norman Chesler, of Salt " Lake City; his mother, Mrs. Annie Chesler, and a sister, Mrs. Fanny Berold, both of Parow, South Africa; two brothers, Simon Chesler of Capetown, South -Africa, and Barney Chesler of New York, N.Y. |