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Show BASIN PIONEER IS GALLED TO REST FRQMUFFS LABOR Hand of Death Removes Isaac Frankltr : Odekirk to Another Realm. Isaac Franklin Odekirk uied from the .Ml'ects of two paralytic strokes Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The first stroke occurred two hours previously, while in company with his yougest son, Ernest, he was returning home wkh a load of wood. When first stricken, he had just reached town, complaining of a terrific pain in the head, which increased in intensity until assisted to his bed. A physician was hastily summoned and everything possible done to prevent a subsequent stroke, so usual in such cases, to no avail, however, and the hand of death removed from Duhesne one of the basin's pioneers and a well belovod and useful citizen, a devoted husband and a kind and inJulgent parent par-ent Impressive funeral ceremonies were held in the town hall Wednesday afternoon after-noon at which Rock M. Pope and R. S. Collett were the speakers. Opening prayer was offered by Enoch R. Brown. A choir rendered several appropriate selections, Orrin Smith a solo, and Mrs. F. M. Shelton and Miss Genie Stott a duet. , Jay C. Jensen was the accompanist accom-panist for the. music. J. W. Burnham pronounced the benediction. George, Charles, John and Ernest, sons,' and Reader and Floyd Workman, grandsons, of the deceased, acted as pallbearers. Although the afternoon was an extremely extrem-ely cold one,, a great number followed the remains to the graveyard. Isaac Franklin Odekirk was born in Oswego county, New York, August 20, 1848, and died at Duchesne,. Utah, January Jan-uary 10, 1916, at the age of 67 years, 4 months and 20 days. The deceased was a resident of Utah tor 65 years, coming to this state with his parents in 1850. He resided in Ogden until 1866, when the family moved to Montpelier, Idaho, where deceased lived until 1878. He was united in marriage to Margaret E. Dean at the Salt Lake temple on November No-vember 1, 1869. Ten children blessed the union, three of whom are dead. Deceased De-ceased was one of the first settlers at Garden City, moving there in 1878 and making that place his home until 1883, when he came to Ashley valley. He and wife moved to Duchesne last year. Early Ear-ly in life deceased affliated himself with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was a member in good standing at the time of his death. Frank (as deceasd was generally known) Odekirk was a splendid man and a good citizen, a tireless worker, ready and willing at all times to shoulder his part of the labor in the upbuilding and advancement of the community in which he lived, and he and children and grandchildren grand-children have been closely identified with the pioneer life and history of the Uintah basin. Surviving the deceased, besides a wid- j ow, are the following children : Mrs. William Casper of Riverton, Utah, and Mrs. Tom Firth, Mrs. Geo. Kohl, Geo. C., John H., Chas. I. and Ernest Odekirk Ode-kirk all of Duchesne, all of whom have the deepest sympathy of everyone throughout the basin in their great loss. |