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Show Burial here Monday for Elliot Bird Funeral service was held in Sandy, Monday, and burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery, for Elliott Bird, 73, a former longtime long-time resident of this city, who died Friday, Sept. 24, 1965, at his home 900 E. 700 S., Sandy. Mr. Bird was born in Spring-ville, Spring-ville, June 7, 1892, a son of John Oliver and Lydia Harrington Har-rington Bird, and spent his early life in this community attending schools here. He married Leona Clark of this city, May 17, 1916, in the Salt Lake Temple. They lived here a number of years after their marriage. She died Feb- their marriage. She died February Feb-ruary 21, 1940. On November 23, 1942, he married Marie Contri in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Bird was a retired. U.S. Civil Engineer. He was a surveyor sur-veyor with the U.S. General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management 40 years. He was a member of the Utah Mineralogical Society and of the national and Salt Lake Association of Retired Civil Employees. He was also affiliated af-filiated with the Wasatch Gem Society and was an elder in the LDS Church. Surviving are his wife, Sandy; San-dy; a daughter, Mrs. S. R. (Marie) Sopher of Gardenia, Calif.; a son, E. Clark Bird, Salt Lake City; seven grandchildren grand-children and two great grandchildren; grand-children; three brothers, J. Emmett Bird of Orem, formerly form-erly of Springville; and Lacelle Bird and Guy Bird of Springville. Spring-ville. Dr. and Mrs. Henry Rose of ElSegunda, Calif., visited briefly brief-ly with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wingate and other friends in Springville one day last week. Mr. Rose was a former principal prin-cipal at Oie high school here and also was coach and played for a time on the BYU basketball basket-ball team as a young man. They visited in Murray, Og-den, Og-den, also at Salina and Richfield. Rich-field. Is it really so different now? Do the little girls in small towns still cry, re-reading "Little "Lit-tle Women?" Remember when everybody in town whittled but few did wood carving ? |