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Show Solon A. Wood Funeral services held here for Solon A. Wood Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Wednesday in the Fourth-Tenfh-Thirteenth Ward by Bishop Edward Holmes for Solon Andrew Wood, prominent and well-known business man, who died February 16, 1969 at the Payson Hospital. Interment was in the Springville City Cemetery. Mr. Wood was general manager man-ager of G.S. Wood Store for 53 years prior to his retirement. He was born December 26, 1889 in Springville a son of Lyman Garland and Mary Peirce Wood. He married Maggie Mag-gie Hall on June 21, 1911 in te Salt Lake LDS Temple and she died in 1962. Following their marriage they made their home in Bingham Bing-ham Canyon for eight years. During World War I, Mr. Wood worked in the shipyards at Bremerton, Washington. Since that time he had resided in Springville. Mr. Wood had served as a counselor in the bishopric of the Springville Fourth LDS Ward, and had been ward clerk in Bingham Canyon. He was president of the 51st Quorum Quor-um of Seventies, and had served ser-ved a mission for the LDS Church in the Northwest States. ; Active in community affairs he had been a volunteer fireman fire-man in Bingham Canyon and in Springville for many years, and was affiliated with the State Firemen's Association. Surviving are a son, Farlin L. Wood of Pleasanton, Calif., and nine grandchildren. In'lndia, a CARE project to build a well in a waterless, destitute des-titute village was at a standstill: stand-still: the men had gone to other oth-er areas seeking work. When ivord spread, three volunteers a watch repairman, bicycle repairman re-pairman and an auto mechanic moon-lighted after their regular regu-lar jobs in a nearby town, to drill the well ind sir.k the shaft. |
