Show N P JEPPSON DIES AT MANTUA after suffering for nineteen months with an affliction that baffled medical ard surgical skill mr novi nor P jeppson ot of mantua passed away at liis his home near maple spring wednesday afternoon at 5 during the last month of his bis illness mr jeppson suffered greatly both physically and mentally for he realized the hopelessness of h his as condition and looked forward with no assurance anae to the future but rather felt confident that his condition would continue to be aggravated until the end should come this thought and knowledge brought mental suffering of the keenest kind for mr jeppson desired to live and be useful in the community deceased was horn born near roskilde rosmilde Ros kilde denmark august 2nd and 1854 he came to utah when a young man 12 years of age and located in mantua which has been his home continuously except tor for a short period following his in marriage arriage when he and his bride went to arizona in response to a call from the church authorities to assist in the colonization of a section of that state returning to mantua mr jeppson took up farming and stock raising and about 18 years ago he acquired the mantua coop co op store which he has managed with profit since he filled a mission to his native native land in 1907 9 and was one of the energetic workers ivor kers in the church organizations of t the mantua ward A very modest modast man he was the soul of honor ind and never wronged another knowingly he is survived by a wife eight children and sixteen grandchildren two children preceded him to the spirit cirit world funeral services will be held at 3 2 tomorrow at manua tua |