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Show Arthur Lightner Funeral services for Arthur Lightner, 76, who died Jan. 25 in the Beaver County Hospital following a stroke, were held in the Minersville LDS Chapel Monday, directed . by Bishop Marshall Hollingshead. He was born Sept. 9, 1880, a ' son of John and Eliza Rebecca Burke Lightner, in Minersville. and had resided there most ol his life. Mr. Lightner was well known throughout' Southern Utah as a livestock raiser and race horse breeder. Although he had no formal schooling, he was an excellent ex-cellent veterinarian, and was credited with saving many valuable val-uable animals. He was a mem ber of the Humane Society. Mr. Lightner bred many oi the top quarter horses and rac horses of Southern Utah, ana at one time was placed in charge of a number of government stal lions sent to Utah to improve the strain of horses in this area. He is said to have brought to Minersville the first steam powered pow-ered threshing machine. He was a member of the LDS church. Only close survivor is a sis ter, Mrs. Abbie McFarlane, o. Modesto, Calif. The invocation was by Jul Gillins and the benediction wa : by Karl Truman. Musical numbers were by a quartet, Sylvia Davis, - June Pearson, Harold Baker and Let-Marshall, Let-Marshall, accompanied by Mrs. Phyllis Truman; violin solo. Mrs. Macel Horton and Linda Prince, accompanied by Mrs Clara Carter. Talks were made by Bishop Hollingshead and Ruben Dotson Pallbearers were Roy Kelsey LaVon Griffiths, Joseph Eyre. Frank Pryor, G. W. Carter, anc Hayward Carter. The grave, in the Minersville Cemetery, was dedicated by Alfred Heslington. |