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Show Friday services at Provo for Frank C. Robertson Frank C. Robertson I Funeral services for Frank In Robertson, 79, internationally international-ly recognized writer of Western fiction and columnist for the Daily Herald, will be held Fri- Ijay a' 2 P m- at tne Berg Mor" lluary in Provo. Former bishop f the Mapleton First Ward, Harold Gividen. will be in harge of the services. Friends may gather at the i family home, 1604 East 200 jorth. Mapleton this evening l,n(l at the mortuary prior to (Die services. Interment will be I l the Springville Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Robertson died July 29, 1969 in a Las Vegas hospital. He was en route home to Ma-S Ma-S pleton after spending the win-'tv win-'tv ter in Visalia, California, with his son. Glen Robertson and y; (jmily. He suffered a severe heart attack in Visalia just prior to Christmas last year. He had also suffered from diabetes dia-betes and seemingly never recovered re-covered his vigor after the at- I tack. He became ill in Las Ve-, Ve-, gas and was hospitalized there . ast weekend. ,.' Mr. Robertson was born in ... Moscow, Idaho, January 12, 1890, on what he termed one of .America's last frontiers, the son of William Hugh and Mary .. Matthews Robertson. He mar- .. rjed Winnie Bowman on July 11 1919. in Pocatello, Idaho. A . shy but quietly competent crit-Vof crit-Vof his work, she typed his ' manuscripts for years and aided aid-ed him in other ways in his '. writing career. She died in Oc- : tober of 1966. , His son of Visalia, is his only "direct survivor. But his nephew, S: Kelly Robertson has operated his Mapleton fruit farm for years and has been an intimate member of the family. Mr. Robertson lived for years In Idaho, at Moscow and Chesterfield, Ches-terfield, where he ranched and (armed. He also began his writing writ-ing career there, with little " formal education, but an extensive ex-tensive reading background. lU He moved to Springville in Hvl the 1930's and to Mapleton in 1937, where he developed a large fruit farm in addition to pursuing his writing career. )(( During a writing career that lUjoegan in the 1920's. Mr. Rob-trtson Rob-trtson eventually pub lished iiearly 150 hard-cover western lovels and countless short stories, stor-ies, during the heydey of the western pulp magazines. His nooks and stories were tremen-iously tremen-iously popular in England as ell as America, and his novels I- aere translated into perhaps a a(i dozen foreign languages and ii rsold on the foreign markets. His pungent Chopping Block injjjolumns ranged far and wide )n human affairs always re-fleeting re-fleeting his great compassion for the underdog and the underprivileged un-derprivileged of the nation and 51 the world. His biography of his family, "Ram in the Thicket," was praised and published as a condensed con-densed version in The Readers " Digest. He was a past president and B"1! of the chief founders of Vjme Utah Writers League. Some Wn years ago he was given the , ;ite of honorary lifetime pres-ident. pres-ident. He was also a past pres-IKj pres-IKj dent of the Western Writers of. MPLS that organization's Silver Spur 3M! M'ard for distinguished western wes-tern writing. |