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Show B.J. SANTISTEVAN FUNERAL TODAY AT HIGH SCHOOL Funeral services for Bailey John Santistevan, 52, veteran Bingham high school baseball and football coach, will be held today, Friday, at 1:00 p.m. in the Bingham High School auditorium at Copperton. Friends may call at the high school today, Friday, from 11:00 a.m. to time of services. Interment will be in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Bingham Mortuary. Mr. Santistevan passed away unexpectedly Tuesday evening, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at his home in Copperton of a heart ailment. News of his passing saddened this community. Many glowing tributes from far and near are being paid to this well-known local figure who carved a niche in athletic circles. Santistevan was best known for the development of young baseball stars, his teams at Bingham Bing-ham high school1 won the state championship 12 times, but in the many years of his football coaching at Bingham he produced produc-ed more than his share of championship champ-ionship elevens. Only last week Bailey was one of the coaches for the annual "North vs South" game in Ogden, a game pitting the top baseball star of the state against each other. And he was looking forward for-ward to another summer of teaching baseball to the hundreds hund-reds of youngsters on the playgrounds play-grounds of Bingham. His work in American Legion Junior baseball is almost the story of the program itself in Utah. He was coach and first director of the Legion program in the Bingham area and his j teams have either been state champions in the American Leg-1 ion program or close to it for j many years. The latest of his proteges, San-, ny Robertson, a youngster who I was an outstanding football, bas-1 ketball and baseball player at Bingham this year and who has been one of Bailey's "boys" since I he was old enough to toddle, just signed a contract with the New York Giants. One of the newer buildings at Bingham high school is a tribute to the veteran coach. He designed design-ed and supervised the construction construc-tion of a new stadium house, where facilities are just about perfect for high school sports. At the time of his death, he was school co-ordinator, athletic director and baseball and football foot-ball coach at Bingham High School. Coach Santistevan was born September 4, 1901, in Los Ana-mos, Ana-mos, Colo., a son of John and Teresina Hart Santistevan. He came to Utah in 1926, to play baseball in the old Copper League. Lea-gue. Before that he was graduated gradu-ated from Colorado A and M, where he was an all-around star in sports. He coached at El Paso high school in Texas for one year before coming to Utah. He married mar-ried Edith May Mitchell in Bingham Bing-ham on June 21, 1926. Surviving besides his widow, Copperton, are two daughters, Nanette and Susan Santistevan, Copperton; a son, Bailey John Santistev.an Jr., a consulting entomologist en-tomologist in Mexico; his parents, par-ents, Los Anamos, Colo.; three sisters, Mrs. Flora Esbeck, Lucille Lu-cille and Edith Santistevan, Denver, Den-ver, and a grandson, Mexico. |
