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Show Funeral Services Held In Cedar City Tuesday For Elmer Taylor Funeral services were held in the Cedar City First ward L. D. S. chapel Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 2 p. m., for Elmer Taylor, age 44, who died in the Los Angeles Veteran's hospital hos-pital last Thursday of cancer, after a year's illness. He had been at the Coast hospital for several weeks. Speakers for the funeral services serv-ices of Mr. Taylor were Pres. William Wil-liam Palmer, Durham Morris. Heber Morris, Heber Walton, all of Cedar City and Milton E. Moody, Washington county school superintendent. Music numbers were by a Cedar City mixed quar-1 tet, violin solo by Roy Halverson, and vocal solo by Myles Walker, i All the speakers told of their association with the deceased in various capacities and paid tribute trib-ute to his work as a citizen, a church member, a school official and business man. A tribute in verse from former school students was read by Mrs. Donald Schmutz of St. George. Prayers were by Henry A. Pace and Orson Hammond of New Harmony. Har-mony. :v Burial was in the New Harmony cemetery, where a brief military (Continued on page eight) Elmer Taylor Death (Continued from first page) service was conducted by the Cedar City Post of the American Legion, and dedication of the grave was by Pres. Claud Hirschi of the Zion Park stake. Born July 24, 1896, in New Harmony, he was a son of Joseph and Angeline Pace Taylor. He received his early schooling at New Harmony, attending the Branch Agricultural college at Cedar City and graduating from the Dixie junior college in the spring of 1917, where he was active ac-tive in debating and student affairs. af-fairs. In July of that year he married Susie Hirschi, daughter of the late Senator and Mrs. David Hirschi of Hurricane. Shortly after their marriage the couple left for Washington, D. C, where both were for a time employed em-ployed at stenographic work. Returning Re-turning to New Harmony they continued to reside at that place until the spring of 1940 when they moved to Cedar City, where Mr. Taylor became owner-manager of the Motel service station. . In New Harmony, besides serving serv-ing several years as school teacher, teach-er, Mr. Taylor was for 14 years ward bishop and resigned frqm his second term as member of the Washington County Board of Education Edu-cation when he moved to Cedar City. He has been active at all times in church and civic affairs, serving many years as New Harmony Har-mony Sunday school superinendent and in other ward and community capacities. Surviving besides Mrs. Taylor, are eight sons and daughters: Lo-lene, Lo-lene, Mona, Olga, Mary, Beverley, Bryce, Doyle and Carl, all of Cedar City; his father of Wyoming, Wy-oming, one brother Alex Taylor of St. George, and a sister, Mrs. LaVerna Englestead of New Har mony. Attending the services from St George were Mr. and Mrs. Alex Taylor, son Leo, and daughter Alenna, Mrs. Donald Schmutz' Mrs. Antone B. Prince, Mrs. Clarence Clar-ence Webb, Mrs. Ken Hirschi, Mis" Annetta Pearce, ' Leo A. Snow Tillie Winsor, Mrs. William Cot-tarn Cot-tarn and County Supt. Milton E Moody. |