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Show NOLEN OPENSHAW PASSES AWAY WITH HEART AILMENNT Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Milford Ward L D S Church for John Nolen Openshaw, 50, who died last Saturday at 12:10 a. m. of a heart ailment. Mr. Openshaw Open-shaw had just gone on duty at the Union Pacific roundhouse when he was stricken. He was bom June 28, 1898, in Paragonah, a son of Job and I ) - S I ' ' 1 JOHN NOLEN OPENSHAW Martha Jane, Watts Openshaw. He married Annis M. Munford on December 6, 1927, in the St. George L D S temple. First going to work for the Union Pacific at Lund in 1937, he was transferred to Milford the following year, and had worked here as a stationary engineer snce that time. He was a devoted de-voted husband and father, and was a popular and well-liked citizen of the community. For many years he had been an offi- cer in the Milford Volunteer I Fire Department until he volun-I volun-I tarily retired to the honorary membership roll a few years ago. Active in the L D S church, he served a mission to the northwestern north-western states and had served as a teacher in the elders quorum, quor-um, ward teacher and stake missionary, mis-sionary, all in the Milford ward. He had recently been ordained in the Quorum of Seventy here. Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Rhonda Marshall of Lindon and Florence Openshaw, Open-shaw, a senior at Milford High School; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Ipsonxof Panguitch, Mrs. Nancy Twitchell of Antimony, and Mrs. Jane Hatch of Oxford, Idaho, and one granddaughter. Burial was in the Cedar City Cemetery. |