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Show I --to. W -is ,r ' ; ' ! I f 4 ' ' ! I V " A. B. Riding, 79, for whom services were held Monday Funeral rites held for A, B. Riding, 79 Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Monday, in the Third Ward, for Alma Blake Riding, 79, 309 North Main St., who died Jan. 9, 1964, of a heart ailment, ail-ment, at the LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City. Bishop F. Calvin Packard presided at the services. Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, Ceme-tery, directed by Berg Mortuary. Mortu-ary. Mr. Riding was born Jan. 29, 1884, in St. George, a son of Henry Hale and Elizabeth Blake Riding. He married Eda Ann Clark, May 12, 1908 in Provo. The marriage was solemnized sol-emnized Nov. 4, 1916 in the Salt Lake Temple. She died July 2, 1961. He attended, elementary schools in St. George and worked on a ranch and later on construction of the Union Pacific Railroads in Nevada. He worked in the mines at Pi-oche, Pi-oche, Nevada, the Alta and Park City mines and the Johnny John-ny Boy mine near Stateline, Nevada. He settled in Springville Spring-ville in 1909, where he worked at the Springville-Mapleton sugar su-gar factory and later at the Tintic Standard Mining Co. He was employed for the Union Pacific Railroad at the roundhouse round-house as a car repairman for over 20 years. Mr. Riding re-(eontinued re-(eontinued on page two, col. 5) |