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Show GEORGE MAYER DIES IN HOSPITAL OF HEART ATTACK Funeral services for George Mayer, 44, who died at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday in the Beaver County Hospital after a heart attack, will be held at 2 p. m. Friday in the Milford LDS Church. Mr. Mayer was born August 6, 1915, ait Manfred, North Dakota, to' August and Mary Cafton Mayer. May-er. Sept. 15, 1935, he married Lillian Jesse, at Manfred. Mr. Mayer engaged in farming in North Dakota until 1946, when he entered the road construction business as a contractor. In 1950 he moved to Milford, purchasing the farm home of Hal Norton, two miles east of town. Mr. Mayer was one of the more progressive Milford Valley farmers, farm-ers, using modern methods and equipment in operating his 1500 acres. He was the first Milford Valley farmer to raise alfalfa for use in making chlorophyl, and tried the overhead" sprinkling system of irrigation, abandoning this irrigating method because oi uie extremely Jtugn winds of the Milford area. He constructed the Milford Elevator, storing and cleaning seed wheat and other grains which were distributed throughout through-out Southern Utah. On his farms he raised wheat, alfalfa, alfalfa seed, other grains, and commercial and seed potatoes. pota-toes. He was an araent booster for the Milford Valley, and was instrumental in-strumental in encouraging many farmers to move here. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. j Lillian Mayer, Milford; his mother, moth-er, Mrs. Mary Mayer, Lodi, Calif.; seven children: Jerry, Donald, George Jr., Karen, Marilyn, Tommy Tom-my and Douglas, all of Milford; two brothers and two sisters, Russell and James Mayer, Milford; Mil-ford; Mrs. Lee -(Clara) Schiede-man, Schiede-man, Dearborn, Mich., and Mrs. Eldon (Fern) Findley, Riverside, Calif. |