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Show DR. RICHARDS LAUDED AT SALT LAKE RITES The late Dr. Paul Snelgrove Richards Sr.. eminent Salt Lake City surgeon, was a noble man who devoted his life to serving his fellow fel-low men, speakers said Monday during funeral services in Granite Tabernacle, 2005 9th East, Salt Lake City. Dr. Richards, co-founder of the Memorial Medical Center and chair man of the board of the newly incorporated in-corporated Richards Memorial Medical Me-dical Foundation, died last Thursday Thurs-day at the age of 65 of cancer. Approximately 1,000 persons, including many former patients from Bingham Canyon, where he practiced from 1922 to 1948, attended at-tended the services. Speakers were Dr. L. E. Viko, colleague and lifelong friend of Dr. Richards ; Reed H. Beckstead, superintendent of Jordan School District: Oscar A. Glaeser, vice president and general manager, U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining Co., and Henry W. Richards, a nephew of the deceased. Attending as representatives of the General Authorities of the Church were President Stephen L. Richards of the First Presidency and a cousin of the deceased, and Elder S. Dilworth Young of the First Council of the Seventy. Dr. Frank Asper, Salt Lake Tabernacle Tab-ernacle organist, played prelude and postlude music. Prayers were offered by Homer Holmgren, bishop of Mountain View Ward, of which Dr. Richards was a member, and by Dr.. Clark Young. President Glen Bennion of the South Box Elder Stake dedicated the grave. Music was provided by Mr. and Mrs. Stuart McMaster and Charles Schmidt. Pallbearers were Stephen C. Richards, Albert Z, Richards Jr., Paul Stringfellow, Samuel R. Bennion, Ben-nion, Elmo A. Nelson and John A. Hutchings. Doctors associated with Dr. Richards in the Memorial Medical Me-dical Center were honorary pallbearers. |