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Show Father of local people dies A number of relatives and friends were in Salt Lake City Saturday, to attend funeral services for Peter John Falk-ner, Falk-ner, 86, who died Sept. 15, 1964, in a Salt Lake rest home. Mr. Falkner was the father of Mrs. Arthur (Margaret) Wing and George Leonard Falkner of Springville. He was born in Germany, February 4, 1878, and came to this country at an early age. His first wife, Emerine Hawkins Haw-kins Falkner died in 1919 and he later married Emma Carlson, Carl-son, who passed away in 1958. He was a retired assistant general car foreman for the D&RGW Railroad. He had been active in LDS Church work and was a high priest in the Granite Park Ward at the time of his death. Survivors besides the son and daughter of Springville, are: a son, Richard A., Bountiful; and three other daughters, Mrs. Harold Paul, Mrs. Paul Bickley, Salt Lake City; Mrs. J. B. Kelly, Bellingham, Wash.; 21 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. |