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Show Graveside Services Held For Orval Glynn Wilson Graveside services were held at the Sunset 11 e m o rial Cemetery, Tuesday, Dec. 31, for Mr. Orval Glynn Wilson, iW, who passed away suddenly sud-denly enroule to the Gila General Hospital Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Dec. 25. The services were officiated of-ficiated by Bishop Dahl Zolmer and Moab's American Am-erican Legion Post 2021 conducted a Military Honors Ho-nors ceremony. Casket bearers were: Junior Worllien, John Shear, Milburn Buchannon, Howard Ho-ward Campbell, John Cari ell andSherrill Hol-den. Hol-den. Complete arrange ments were under the direction of the Caldwell Funeral Home in Safford which included funeral services held previously for Mr. Wilson Dec. 30 in Globe, Arizona at the Globe Ward Chapel of die LDS Chur-h Orval Glynn Wilson was born in Franklin, Arizona Arizo-na on July 13, 1921, the son of John Glynn and So Ida Wilson. He was 'Uie oldest child in the Wilson family of four boys and one girl. He attended the Duncan schools and worked on farms and ranches in the areas as a cowboy. He followed the rodeo circuit cir-cuit for several years before he became interested in-terested in mining. He Started working at the Ash Peak Mine in Duncan, Dun-can, Arizona until 1943 at which time he joined the United Suites Navy and served overseas during World War JI, being be-ing discharged in 1946. He worked at different mines throughout the United Un-ited States for the next eight years and was a leadman and project superintendent su-perintendent on many of the jobs he was on. In 1954 he went to work for The Centennial Development De-velopment Company just outside of Havana, Cuba as assistant shaft superintendent, super-intendent, returning to the United States in 1955, working on numerous jobs in different states. In 1960 he went to Salt Lake City, Utah to work as the project superintendent superin-tendent to oversee the job of excavating and building underground storage vaults for the LDS Church for the purpose pur-pose of storing the Church records and microfilm. mi-crofilm. This job was the highlight of his min ing career, and he was very pioud of what he had helped accomplish ; when the vaults were completed arid ready for use, in 1902. Following this he worked on numerous num-erous jobs throughout the United States. He was still working for The Centennial Development Company as project superintendent su-perintendent at the Cities Service Shafts in Miami, 1 Arizona at the time of : his death. He was a member of the LDS Church and is survived by his wife, Letty; sons Bill and Don- I aid, both of Green River, Wyo.; Kim and Billy, both I of Salt Lake City; Gary of Miami, Ariz.; Leroy i of Farrnington, N. Mex.; Larry, Robert and John all of Moab, Utah; and Brent of Globe, Ariz.; one daughter, Mrs. Sandra San-dra Zoraster of Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Calif.; his mother Mrs. Zelda Wilson of Duncan; three brothers; Norman, Ronald and Donald Wilson, all of Green River, Wyo.; one sister, Mrs. Barbara Gilliland of Morenci, Arizona and 17 grandchildren. |