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Show Three Well-Knewn Beaver County Residents Pass Away This Week LEONARD BANKS DIES IN 5 MILFORD AFTER LENGTHY ILLNESS Funeral services for Leonard Banks, 69, who died Monday after a lingering illness, will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Milford ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Carl Goodwin, bishop. Mr. Banks was born in Minersville, Miners-ville, Beaver County, November 13, 1878, a son of Joseph and Paulina Myers Banks. He mar- . SAMUEL JOHNSON DIES IN ADAMS VILLE AT AGE OF 71 Funeral services for Samuel Johnson, 71, Adamsville, who died suddenly Thursday at his home, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in Beaver First-Third ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, by Wallace D. Yardley, bishop. Mr. Johnson was born in England, July 9, 1677, son' of Samuel Sr. and Jane Bednal Johnson. When Mr. Johnson was I a young boy the family came to Utah as L D S converts. He married Eleanor Jones in the Manti L D S temple. Some years after her death he married Margaret Flemming in Salt Lake , City. He had always lived at Adamsville where he engaged in farming and stock raising. Besides his widow, Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Johnson of Adamsville, he is survived by a son and daughter, daugh-ter, S. W. Johnson, Beaver, and Mrs. Eleanor Gray of Adamsville; Adams-ville; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, three brothers and three sisters: Mr. Robert Johnson, Salt Lake City, Thomas Johnson, Lake View; Charles Johnson,, Adamsville; Mrs. Nellie Marlor, Magna; Mrs. Mary Jane Anderson, Manti, and Mrs. Hannah Jones of Beaver. Friends may call at the home of his son, S. W. Johnson, at Beaver prior to services. Burial will be in Beaver Mountain View cemetery. ried Margaret Ellen Wimmer in Parowan in 1904. She died May 1. 1928. He had been a farmer in Minersville until 1928 when he moved to Milford, where he had been employed by the Union Pacific Railroad Co. maintenance mainten-ance department for a number of years. He was president of the Milford Mil-ford L D S ward quorum of elders. el-ders. He was well and favorably favor-ably known in Milford and Minersville, Min-ersville, and made a host of friends in the western end of the county. Surviving are two sons, Pete Banks, Milford, and Charles Winslow Banks, Salt Lake City; three daughters, Mrs. Pauline Bronson and Margaret Banks, San Diego, California, and Mrs. Mary Spykerman, Bethesda Md.; 14 grandchildren; a brother, Randall Banks, Minersville ,and a sister, Mrs. La Verne Davis, Milford. Burial will be in Milford City cemetary. : i i was a freighter in Utah and Nevada, later engaging in mail contracting between Frisco, Beaver County and Ely, Nevada, with his brother, Joseph Dearden. Dear-den. Survivors, besides his widow, include three sons and three daughters, James T., Vivian H., and Lee Dearden, Garrison, Millard Mil-lard County; Mrs. Myrtle Jen-ning Jen-ning and Mrs. Fern Warner, Deseret, Millard county; a brother and four sisters, A. E. Dearden and Mrs. Fannie Ashman, Ash-man, Fillmore; Mrs. Isabell Swallow and Mrs. Ann Dush-nell, Dush-nell, Meadow, Millard county, and Mrs. Esther Smith, Ely, Nevada; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Wednesday in Fillmore First ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Milton A. Melville. THOMAS DEARDEN, PIONEER CATTLEMAN, OF COUNTY, DIES IN FILLMORE Thomas Davies Dearden, 73, retired cattle rancher of eastern Utah and western Nevada, died Friday at 8:15 p.m. in a Salt Lake hospital after a lingering illness. Mr. Dearden had engaged in ranching for 37 years and became be-came one of the largest cattle operators in Utah before his retirement re-tirement four years ago. He was born September 4, 1875, in Fillmore, Millard County, a son of Thomas and Charlotte Davies Dearden. He married Elizabeth Rowley October Oct-ober 17, 1898, in Fillmore. She died in September, 1926. He married Mattie Heckethorn July married Mattie Heckethorn, July 21, 1928, in Beaver. Starting at the age of 12, he |