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Show GEORGE STAHELI SANTA CLARA George Stah-eli, Stah-eli, 80, farmer and early pioneer died at the home of his daughter here Sunday. Funeral was Monday Mon-day under direction of Bishop Vivian J. Frei. Interment was in the Santa Clara cemetery. He was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, January 18, 1854, the son of George and Sophia Haberli Staheli. When seven years old he emigrated to America Amer-ica with his parents and came with the Swiss company to the Dixie mission in 1861, settling in Santa Clara. Only two more of the children in the original Swiss company survive. He has lived here all his life, an inveterate inveter-ate worker, improving his home and his farm. He played in the early brass band led by hjs father, prominent in the early days in the settlement of southern south-ern Utah. He married Emma B. Graff in 1897. Three children were born to them, two of whom survive: Mrs. Harvey Stucki, Santa Clara, and Harvey Staheli, Provo. Also three sisters, and a brother survive: sur-vive: Mary Olsen, Los Angeles; Barbara Stucki, Santa Clara, and Elizabeth Walker, Hinckley, and John Staheli, St. George. |