Show PIONEER GONE TO REST BEST ward E pack sr after life of usefulness passes away at home of daughter mrs ferry young if only one flower was placed on his hia grave for every good aa he did ward E pack would sleep tonight to night under a mountain of bon banquets president william 11 II smart if I 1 can c an die under the same came conditions dit ions after having lived such euch a noble life as he be has lived I 1 shall feel that I 1 ave been a success bishop J N Ds dis D is s ile he devoted his life to principle his sons and daughters have reason to proud that they bear his hia name nam ebs ebe harden bennion no mare eloquent eulogies could have been said over the dead than those which were spoken among many other worda of praise during the funeral services ter vicea of ward b L pack at maeser ward church last wednesday morning in the presence of the many relatives and a large number of life long friends the services were conducted by bishop colton who made a few remarks the opening prayer was offered by prof A B anderson which was waa followed by addresses by bishop davis davia president smart and harden Be bennion the choir which furnished beautiful music was under the direction of peter hanson at a ripe old age and after having lived a life of much usefulness to his family to his church and to his country ward E pack passed into the great beyond last sunday in 1884 he suffered an accident which cost him an arm and although not apparent to all some borne of his relatives believe he has bas had heart trouble during all of his years mr pack has been vigorous and strong mentally and morally if not physically and even when the shadows of the evening of life began to gather about him and to lengthen into the night which we call death he hastened on ever anxious to do the work that he was sent to do in the final hours when the grim reaper was waiting at the window of his room he said to bishop davis that it mattered but little how soon eoon he went as the timo time of bis de must of necessity be sooner or later he felt that he had kept the faith and that he had about finished his hia work ile he was wai ready to TO go while a portion of the family oz on this sido side mourn at his going the rest on the other side elda rejoice at his hia coming ig deceased is survived by a wife and fourteen children ile ho was tho the father of twenty two children and was the grandfather of forty children the wife and eleven children were present at the funeral six of the suns suna ward E marvin leon austin orlan and acted as aa pall bearers the was waa pronounced by patriarch nelson merkley and the dedicatory services at the grave were performed by president smart ward E pack oldest child of john pack and julia ives ivea pack was born bom in watertown N Y april 17 1834 and died in vernal utah at the home of his hia daughter mrs feramorz Fera young november 16 1907 1007 ilia parents joined the church in his hia infancy and amov moved ed to far west mo after sharing in the mob persecutions in that town the family moved with the church to nauvoo III and when again driven from their home they came further west with the saints when the pioneers were closen chosen his father was one of those selected leaving ward and his hia family at winter quarters where they spent the winter of arriving in great salt lake city the following year 1848 where amy settled in tho the seventeenth ward 14 J the year 1854 1864 he was called on a mission to the sandwich or hawaiian islands with Prem president dent joseph F smith and others who made up the second company of missionaries to that group where he remained until the missionaries were recalled re called by president young in 1857 1867 when johnstons John stona army was waa en 1 route to utah he subsequently filled two more missions mis siona to the sandwich islands in each case presiding over the mission in 1869 he performed a ans ania sion in the eastern states in company with his father and mother laboring principally among relatives there lie he also assisted one season 1862 in bringing immigrants across the tho plains acting as captain in n the company of horton haight when rhodes rhodea valley now kamad continued on second page |