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Show Samuel G. Raymond FRUIT HEIGHTS Samuel Grandison Raymond, 83, passed away Friday, Jan. 11, 1991 at his home. He was bom Oct. 27, 1907 in Kaysville, a son of Grandison and Mary B. Rushforth Raymond, Jr. He married Mildred Ruth Anderson Oct. 17, 1932 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. for many years for the Davis County School District. He was a lifelong resident of the Kaysville-Fruit Heights area. A graduate of Davis High School, he was president of the senior class of 1927. He attended Utah State University Univer-sity in Logan, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He was an active member of the Fruit Heights Third LDS Ward and had served as the YMMIA president, elders quorum president, member of the presidency of the 55th Quorum of Seventies, counselor in the Kaysville Fifth LDS Ward bishopric, bishop of the Kaysville Ninth LDS Ward, served serv-ed as high priest group leader and served a mission to Eastern Canada. He had served a stake mission with his wife as his companion in the Davis Stake and was an active temple worker. He was president and mayor of Fruit Heights for 19 years. He was president and member of the Board of Directors of the Davis Farm Coop and a member of the Haight Creek Irrigation Irriga-tion Company. Surviving are his wife of Fruit Heights; two sons and one daughter, Farrel Gene and wife Verla Raymond, Ray-mond, Fruit Heights; Floyd A. and wife Joyce Raymond, Wilmington, Del.; Barbara R. and husband Ted Spendlove, Fruit Heights; 11 grandchildren grand-children and 16 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Jan. 16, at the Fruit Heights Stake Center under the direction of Lindquist's Kaysville Mortuary. Interment, Kaysville City Cemetery. He was active in farming in his younger years. He had been a horticulturist, owned and operated his own orchard, grew his own root stock. He was a bus driver |