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Show Funeral Services For J. V. Imlay To Be Held Friday Hurricane Man Suffers Heart Attack Enroute To Salt Lake City Friday James Wilson Imlay, prominent I c i t i z e n of Hurricane, died of heart disease Wednesday morning at eight o'clock in the Provo hospital. hos-pital. Funeral services have been set for 2 p. m. in the Stake Chapel. Mr. Imlay was born in Washington Wash-ington county at New Harmony in 1871, and has lived here for more than 40 years. He was educated edu-cated in the district schools of Garfield county with four years of high school, and he attended the Panguitch school for t w o years under John C. Swenson as principal. He was engaged in the cattle and farming business in Garfield county and the farming and sheep business in Washington county. He knew the farming and grazing lands of this county and was very familiar with the intra-county livestock live-stock and grazing customs in adjoining ad-joining counties and in the Arizona Ari-zona Strip. Mr. Imlay had several years' experience in banking, and was president of the Iron Commercial and Savings Bank of Cedar City until it was consolidated with the Bank of Southern Utah. He was at one time a member of the city council of Panguitch, and served the city of Hurricane for ten years, serving as Mayor for three terms. He was a member of the Board of Education in Washington Washing-ton county, having served in this capacity most of the time since the consolidation of the school district. Representing Washington county in the state legislature at its (Continued on page eight) J. W. Imlay Death (Continued from first page) fourteenth session, Mr. Imlay made a splendid record there. He operated successfully a flour mill at Hurricane and at Cedar City; and has had experience in surveying, survey-ing, and in hydraulic and irrigation irriga-tion engineering. He has been a director in the Hurricane Canal Company, and was its president for the greater part of the past thirty years. He was also water commissioner for that part of the Virgin river within Washington county. Those of his family who survive him are his wife and the following follow-ing children; Mrs. LeGrand Hardy of Boulder City, Kenneth Imlay of Cedar City, Mark Imlay of Los Angeles, and James Fenton, Lu-etta, Lu-etta, John, Florence, George, Eva, and Arthur Imlay of Hurricane. Another daughter, Fern Imlay Benson, died 17 months ago, and they have her baby. |