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Show FORMER OLD TIMER PASSES AWAY Funeral services for Evans Garfield Locke, 83, of Salt Lake City, former Bingham oldtime resident, were conducted Wednesday Wed-nesday at 4 p.m. in the Evangelical Evangel-ical Free Church, Salt Lake City, with Pastor Ralph Larsen officiating. Mr. Locke, better known and remembered here as "Miners Union" Locke and most always accompanied by a large St. Bernard Ber-nard dog, passed away Friday, October 24th at 9:30 p.m. at his home of a heart ailment. He was born June 19, 1869, at Crown Point, N. Y. He married Mildred Gannon in Bingham Canyon in August, 1905. Until six months ago he had been a houseman at the New Ute Hotel. Mr. Locke was a former for-mer secretary and chairman of the Bingham fire department and served as president of the Utah State Firemen's Ass'n in 1918. He was prominent in local civic affairs during the early part of the century and was also active in the labor movement here in the early days. A gifted orator, he also composed poetry. He was a member of the Congregational church in New York but in Salt Lake City he had been attending the Evangelical Free Church. Surviving are the widow, Salt Lake City and two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Sherman and Miss Theo Locke, both living in New York. Burial was in Mt. Olivet cemetery. ceme-tery. ; o |