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Show ' Death Ends Full Life Of Charles Redd Charles Redd, live-stockman, live-stockman, philanthropist, philanthro-pist, and one of the last 2 remaining of a handiull of men who developed Southeastern Utah during the first half of the century, cen-tury, died March 30 at Utah Valley Hospital, Provo. Mr. Redd, 85, passed away of causes incident to age. He was born May 8, 1889 in Bluff to Lemuel Hardison and Eliza Ann Westover Redd. On August Aug-ust 29, 1931, he married mar-ried Annaley Naegle in Layton, Utah, and that jnarriage was later solemnized so-lemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Receiving his early .education in Bluff, Mr. J Redd graduated from Brigham Young University Univer-sity in 19H and served a mission for the Church 0 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints in the Northwestern North-western States from 1912 5 1914. He moved to LaSal in 1915. Mr. Redd wasthepost-"Kster wasthepost-"Kster at LaSal for 50 years. He was honored Queen Elizabeth Hand wade an honorary mem-r mem-r of. the British Em-pire- He owned andoper-Wed andoper-Wed the Redd Ranches, II "eadquartered in LaSal, ?d w 1949 he moved to "ovo, spending summers sum-mers in LaSal thereafter. -4 JlL.8ei"ved as a Utah ' ' - I 'I Charles Redd State Representative in the 1925 and 1927 sessions ses-sions of the Utah State Legislature; was a trustee trus-tee for Utah State University Uni-versity and was on the Utah Water and Power Board in 1950; was on the Hoover Dam Commission Com-mission in 1965; and that year also was a trustee for the U.S. Cowboy Hall of Fame. He had served as a delegate to the Republican Re-publican National Convention, Con-vention, was a director of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and Utah Power & Light Co., a past president presi-dent of the National Wool Marketing Assn., and a High Priest in the LDS Church. He was honored by the Western Livestock Journal Jour-nal by being named a Cattleman of the Century. He endowed the Lemual Hardison Redd chair for Western Studies at Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University. Survivors include his widow; 3 sons and 5 daughters: Charles Hardison, Har-dison, LaSal; Robert Byron, By-ron, Indian Creek; Paul David, Paradox, Colo.; Mrs. Gary M. (Kathryn) Mullins, Solvang, Ca.; Mrs. Richard (Maraley) Rasmussen, Evanston.Il. Mrs. Loyd (Beverly) Woods, Springville; Mrs. James E. (Regina) Mitchell Mit-chell and Mrs. Brian Bailf (Rebecca Sue) Lambert, Lam-bert, Salt Lake City; and 24 grandchildren. Also surviving are a brother, A. Jay Redd, Monticello; and 3 sisters, Mrs. Lawrence E. "Bob" (Amy) Snow, Copperton, Ut., Mrs. Annie Neff and Mrs. Carlie Shurtliff, Bountiful. Services will be held both in Provo and in Blanding. Provo services ser-vices will be April 3 at 12 noon in the Oak Hills 2nd Ward LDS Chapel, and friends may call at the chapel prior to services. ser-vices. Blanding services will be April 4 at 12 noon in the Blanding LDS Ward Chapel, with interment following in the San Juan Cemetery, Blanding, under un-der the direction of Berg Mortuary, Provo. |
