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Show Capacity Crowd Attends Funeral Services For Wellington F. Gates The St. George South ward chapel was crowded to capacity at 4 p.m., Sunday for the impressive funeral services honoring Wellington Fors-berry Fors-berry Gates, who died at the family fam-ily home at 6 a. m., Saturday, March 4th, of cerebral hemorrhage. hemorr-hage. He had been seriously ill since Wednesday, althought he has been in poor health for several months. Counselor John H. Schmutz of the Center ward bishopric, conducted con-ducted the program with Mae A. Pace at the chapel organ. There were many beautiful floral offerings. offer-ings. Muslo Numbers Included in the music numbers were vocal quartets, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", and "Lead Me Gently Home, Father", by Leland Lamoreaux, Marion Bowler, Melba Baker and Mary Lu Schmutz; vocal vo-cal duct, "Where Jesus Leads", Adrcne Cottam and Mary Lu Schmutz, and vocal solo, "Prayer Perfect", Leland Lamoreaux. First speaker was W. W. Cannon, Can-non, who had been long associated associ-ated with Mr. Gates, especially in connection with the Dixie Power company, (later Southern Utah Power company) by whom both were employed for many years. He told intimately of their association, as-sociation, of the great faith Mr. Gates had in the eternity of life and in his fellowmen; of his friendliness, his capacity for hard work, his studiousness, his thrift, and his belief in doing whatever task was before him, the best it could be done. He read a poem, entitled, "Success", as typifying the life of the deceased. W. W. McArthur, a close neighbor neigh-bor of the family, reviewed Mr. Gates' life, told of his many deeds of neighborly kindness, his unusual un-usual home life, his appreciation for beauty, and the effort he made to have his home surrounded with beautiful plant life, always keeping keep-ing his place in order, and looking look-ing towards the future hopefully. He could not tolerate weeds, either (Continued on page eight) Springdale Centennial j (Continued from first page) I piano solo, Mrs. Tom Davis; vocal j duet, Mrs. Adrian Dennett and i Miss Beth Crawford; vocal solo, Von Hoyt and two musical numbers num-bers by Mrs. Sterling Seegmiller and Harold Russell. The rest of the evening was spent in dancing, during which the Relief Society birthday cake was lighted, then cut and served to those present. |