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Show Final rites held Tuesday for Thomas Carter Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Tuesday, in the Second-Eighth Second-Eighth ward chapel, for Tom Carter, 77, retired steel worker, who died of cancer Saturday, August 19, at the family residence, resi-dence, 142 W. 300 South. Burial was in the Provo City cemetery, directed by Wheeler . Mortuary. Mr Carter was born in Provo Pro-vo November 17, 1889, a son , of Aaron and Elizabeth Barrett I carter. He married Arvilla . Harrison of Springville, Octo- ber 18, 1915, in Provo. They had made their home in Spring- ville most of their married lite. Mr Carter was employee many years as a generator en-. en-. gineer for U.S. Steel and if , credited with firing the firs n boilers at Ironton m 1924. H i worked there 34 years. For " (Cont. on back page, col. 6) f 1 N 1 j Thomas (Tom) Carter, 77, for whom serices were held Tuesday afternoon. Final rites held for Thomas Carter (Continued from Page One) number of years he was chairman chair-man of the grievance committee commit-tee for the United Steelwork-ers Steelwork-ers Union Local 1577. He was a member of the Retired Steel-workers Steel-workers organization. His hobbies were raising fine evergreen trees and hunting and fishing and he was a member mem-ber of the Springville-Mapleton Wild Life Federation. Surviving are his wife, a son and two daughters, Gordon R. Carter and Mrs. Earl (Phyllis-Bishop, (Phyllis-Bishop, both of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Kathleen Gardner of Springville; six grandchildren- two brothers and a sister Floyd and Archie Carter of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Milli Leavitt of Seattle, Wash. 1 |