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Show Franklin D. Williams Funeral services for Franklin D. Williams, Sr., , were held Monday in the Minersville L D S Church, under direction of Bishop Marshall Hollingshead. Mr. Williams died Friday, June 22, in the Milford Hospital. Neal Williams oiiered the prayer at the home, before the services. Prelude music was by Mrs. Phyllis Truman. A male quartet, Lee Marshall, Milton Albrecht, Harold Baker and Marcine Davis, sang "I Know that My Redeemer Lives" Don Pocock offered hte invocation, invo-cation, and Dick Jones read the obituary. Hal and Nell Smith sang "In the Garden of Tomorrow." Remarks, Dick E. Nowers. Vocal duet, "In the Upper Gardens," Vivian Marshall and Sylvia Davis. Address, Carlos Murdock. Vocal solo, "I'll Walk With God," David Vigos. Address, Carlyle Gronning. Poem, "Tribute to Dad," Anna Rae Carter. Vocal duet, "Silver Haired Daddy," Harold and Melba Baker. Benediction. Tom Williams. The grave in the Minersville Cemetery was dedicatd by James Williams. Pallbearers were Jimmy Williams, Wil-liams, Dick E. Nowers, Frank Nowers, George K. Williams Jr., Arlo Dance, 'Vance Marshall Alan Williams and Ralph Carter. Car-ter. Mr. Williams was a prominent stockman and civic worker, and was well known in the state for his activities in church political and civic affairs. As a young man he served a mission to Great Britain for the L D S Church. He was a noted speaker, and was proud of having given 1112 funeral sermons. For four years he was a Beaver Stake Sunday School superintendent, and at the time of his death he was a high priest and a ward teacher. He served as county chairman of the Republican party for six years, president of the Minersville Miners-ville town board for eight years, was committe.eman of the First Congressional District and Minersville Min-ersville precinct chairman. In 1939 he was elected state senator, representing Beaver and Millard counties, serving one term as state senator. As a sheepman and stockman he served as director of the State Woolgrowers Association He was chairman of the first advisory ad-visory board of the Division of Grazing for this district. At the time of his death he was president of the Yellow Mountain Land and Irrigation Cq. and was a trustee of the Rocky Ford Irrigation Co., and a member of the board of the Minersville Land and Irrigation Co. Mr. Williarns was born Jan. 26, 1888, at Greenville, a son of David E. and Margaret Reese Williams. He was educated in the Beaver County schools. On Oct. 28, 1909, he married Leah Marshall in the Salt Lake Temple, and they moved to Minersville. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom were living when Mrs. Williams died in 1926. On July 14, 1927, he married Lucy Pearl Pocock of Tooele, in the Salt Lake Temple. Five children were born to this union. Surviving, besides his widow, are the following children: Mrs. Emil (Viola) Nowers, Beaver; Mrs. Leland (Margaret) Daiton, Mrs. James (Renee) Eyre, Mrs. Max (Anna Rae) Carter, and John and David Williams, Minersville; Min-ersville; Mrs. Don (Charlene) Heslington, Kearns; and Franklin Frank-lin D. Williams Junior, Chicago. Twenty-five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren also survive, and two brothers and a sister, Heber Williams of Salt Lake, George Williams of La Verkin, and Mrs. Cecila Dance of Blackfoot, Idaho. |