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Show I Emmett Bird, former mayor, Master dies; services today .' ; J ' :.j,erai services will be held morning at 11 a.m. in the .Tv2lfth Ward for J. Em-: Em-: Bird, 80, former mayor posimaster of Springville, ' died Oct. 27, 1968 at the :?r County Hospital in Roy, i Friends may call at the ;Ier Mortuary prior to the -:es. Burial will be in the -gville Evergreen Cemetery. ,-yf Don Watts of the jth Ward will conduct the as. ? was bom Dec. 25, 1887, Springville, a son of John er and Lydia Sylvia Har-Bird. Har-Bird. He married Eu-u Eu-u Smith on May 19, 1907, salt Lake City, and their .rare was later solemnized it Salt Lake LDS Temple. -Bird died June 23, 1960. !:. Bird spent his early life ting for the Springville-. Springville-. 'iton unit of the Utah-Ida- 3. Emmett Bird, for whom services are being held at 11 a.m. today,lst-12th Ward. Sigar Co. as a chemist and cultural superintendent. He ae Springville Postmaster k 3, holding the post until retirement in 1957. He ser-J- J terra as president of the i Chapter of Pastmasters. He was elected mayor of "J!;ville in 1958 and served term. He also served two I on the Nebo School Dis- :t Board of Education, be-"i'j be-"i'j president the last term, was past president of Spr-- Spr-- Garden Club, and had u member of the Jaycees, aiis Club, and Chamber of rr naerce. itiive in church work, he f bishop of the Springville R LDS Ward from 1924 to fc. and was president of the p LDS Stake from 1931 to Arriving are two daughters, F A- W. (Rena) Caine of Neld and Mrs. Dave (Ina) plAs of Bountiful; four children, seven great-Mchildren, great-Mchildren, two brothers, Pe and G-uy H. Bird, both Springville, p lie approximately 10,000 Corps Volunteers now more than 150 of them the age of 50, and 14 'W the age of 70, accord-, accord-, : agency director Jack f -an. h |