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Show Funeral Services Held in Logandale Wednesday For Edward Henry Syphus Funeral . services were held in Logandale, Nevada, at 2 p.m. Wednesday Wed-nesday for Edward Henry Syphus, 85, who died at the home of his '. daughter, Mrs. Mary Frehner, i whom he was visiting when he was taken ill 10 days earlier. Bishop John Lewis conducted the services with music numbers by the Logandale choir, a trumpet ) solo by Beebe Syphus, grandson of the deceased accompanied by a grandaughter, Pay Wittwer Stewart, Ste-wart, and violin solo by William Clive with Mrs. Agnes Anderson ' accompanying. The speakers were Pres. R. O. Gibson of Moapa stake, Creighton Johnson and W. L. Jones, all of whom paid tripute to the eventful, , busy, profitable and exempliary 1'fe of this early southern Utah and Nevada pioneer. There were many floral offer-i"KS offer-i"KS from friends in St. George and Nevada. Prayers were by Martin A. Bunk-tr Bunk-tr and Robert Chadburn, and burial was in the Logandale cemetery. ceme-tery. Edward Henry Syphus was born August 22, 1856, at'San Pedro Bay, the day after his parents, Luke a"(i Christiana Long Syphus ar-'ed ar-'ed as L.D.S. imigrants from "island. They had been six months on the sea. A rude shack ws improvised on the bay to serve as his birthplace. His family moved to Utah and (Continued on page eight) E. H. Syphus Death (Continued from first page) later to Nevada. While in Santa Clara his father built the old Jacob Hamblin home which still is standing. In 1882 he married Anna Burgess Burg-ess in the St. George Temple and moved to Nevada where she died December 21, 1892. He married Eleanor Beebe who died in December De-cember 1937, since then he has made his home with his son Everett and wife in St. George, where they had resided for several sev-eral years previously. Surviving are three sons, Ever-et Ever-et and Fay Syphus of St. George, Lester Syphus of Overton, and four daughters, Mrs. Mary Fre-hner Fre-hner of Logandale, Mrs. Doris Minneapolis, a sister Miss Clara Madsen of Lone Pine, California, and Mrs. Eleanor Remmer of Minneapolis, sister Miss Clara Syphus of Panaca, 34 grandchildren grandchil-dren and three great-grandchildren. |