Show OLDEST CITIZEN RESIDED HERE FOR 40 YE PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 91 orley D buss cai for nearly half a century an hex and respected resident ot tha i munley passed away at his home arday at the age of 91 years until about a year ago the gentleman though somewhat ft as an occasional visitor on 24 gai street and throughout town and S cheery greeting and kindly chats acquaintances were welcomed and sei predated by a host of friends and some time ago he bee bedfast atis to the infirmities broi on by hla extreme age and he gi bally grew weaker until death da ed him X funeral services were held mon forenoon from the L D S chapel i were largely attended by relates i friends the invocation was given J H johnson P M shafer and R mcconkle were the speakers be testifying to the fine life which bliss had lived the choir sang hymns and a solo was rendered mrs C A loveridge the benedic was offered by bert allred at ta grave the dedicatory prayer was alv by C L christensen and a select lt was rendered by the choir S the life of orley dwight bliss Is JL ti interwoven with the magr alon to and the settlement of the sti of utah he was bom july palermo oswego county yew yo the son of norman I 1 and mary bliss his parents joined the L D church in 1842 and moved to bauvi with the citizens of nauvoo t bliss family was driven out of dili i in 1848 spending a year at f quarters ter in 1848 mr bliss em ia grated with his father to utah an 1 after spending a rear at salt lak went on to california in 1851 M allsy and clr father hl mathei ha died returned to salt lake city th soung man served in 1858 as a in v hat is called the mormon wai in 1862 he was called on a mission t dixie in the spring of 1863 he wa called to go to river as teamster to help move ocar emigrant to utah and he spert several year in this work j on october 12 1867 mr bliss marjri ried miss harriet josephine lee tey the endowment house at salt laky city the young couple moved to th dixie country where they resided for some fifteen years living at boquer i ville kanara and Pan gultch in abou the sear 1888 they moved to emere county now carbon county residing at price and wellington end in came to moab mr blis bli s established a home here alch he until his death he also settled on of farm at browns hole 20 miles south j east of moab spending much of hlll time there until his advancing age made it impossible for him to con l dinue his farm work mrs buss alec some ten years ago mr and mrs bliss were the parents of twelve children eleven ol 01 whom survive the children are mrs mattie birch duchesne W J bliss price mrs T A birch price 0 D bliss jr british columbia mrs hattie nash mccracken kansas mrs F W haller mancos colo mrs A T taylor moab S marion bliss price vernon N bites moab mrs chester A wright mack colo mrs H W butt lockerby utah all of the children with the exception of 0 D bliss jr who resl desi in british columbia were in moab for the funeral the death of orley D bliss removes one of the most highly respect J ed pioneers of southeastern utah he was revered by every man woman or child who formed his acquaintanceship and his death eyen though at the ripe old age of jell of sadness to the hearts of an army of friends |