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Show Scores of People From All Sections Attend William Lund Funeral ENTERPRISE, Utah. Scores of relatives, friends and business associates as-sociates from all parts of Iron and Washington counties attended funeral services in Enterprise this (Thursday) for William Lund, 57, outstanding religious and civic leader, who died at his home in Enterprise early Tuesday of heart attack. He had been in poor health for five years. Recognized as one of Utah's most colorful and successful business busi-ness men, Mr. Lund took over his father's interests at Modena, when age 19, expanding that trading post on the Union Pacific rail lines to proportions that make B. J. Lund and Co., a widely known firm today. Born At Silver Reef Born at Silver Reef, June 16, 1884, a son of Brigham James and Rozilla Branch Lund, he gained gain-ed as a child the atmosphere of a boom town mining industry. The family moved to St. George when he was age six, where he completed com-pleted grade school and two years of high school, then took terminal term-inal courses in commercial subjects sub-jects at B. Y. U., returning in 1902 to Modena to take over the business busi-ness established by his father there in the late 90's. In 1919 a new store was estab-(Continued estab-(Continued on page eight) Wm. Lund Funeral (Continued from first page) lished in Enterprise, where he moved to become manager, leaving the Modena set-up in charge of his brother, Thomas Lund, who is still conducting that dramatic end of their business. Mr. Lund continued con-tinued as president of B. J. Lund and Co., until five years ago, when ill health urged his retirement. He married Alice Knell in the St. George Temple in September, 1906, by who he had one son, William J. Lund, now in charge of the Enterprise firm. Modena was once the largest sheep shearing center in the United States, shearing nearly 200,000 sheep annually. Mr. Lund with others established the first machine shearing plant in Utah at that place in the early 1900's, where 50 shearers were accommodated. accommo-dated. The Lunds also kept a boarding house at Modena. A Staunch Democrat Always a staunch democrat, Mr. Lund served two trems as Iron county commissioner while residing resid-ing at Modena, and since that time has served as Washington county commissioner. When the Washington county welfare department de-partment was organized he became a member, retaining this office until his death. In 1930 he was slated on the Democratic ticket for state representative, but was defeated by the late David Hirschi of Hurricane. Active since boyhood in the L. D. S. church, his adherence to its salient principles have marked him outstanding wherever he has resided. He served 15 years as bishop of Enterprise ward, and since then has filled the high office of-fice of patriarch, first in the western wes-tern St. George stake, until Enterprise En-terprise was made a part of the recently organized Uvada stake, where he continued in this calling. A member of the Enterprise town board for many years he was among those who fostered the Enterprise Reservoir and Irrigation Irriga-tion company, of which he was secretary for many years. Surviving are his widow, his son, William J. Lund and three grandchildren, grand-children, all of Enterprise; four sisters: Mrs. G. E. Hill and Mrs. Mary McArthur, Modena; Mrs. Arthur Nelson of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Desmond Hall of Pioche. |