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Show Military Funeral For Hailey Madsen Hailey M. Madsen, who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Hans C. Hansen, at Sterling Thursday of last week, was buried last Sunday with I military honors. World war veter-j veter-j ans from Gunnison and other cora-I cora-I munities of the valley participated in j the exercises and altogether the i burial of the former soldier was im-prsssive. im-prsssive. Invocation, songs and a volley from the firing squad and taps were followed out in military order. Hailey Madsen passed away at the home of his sister following a lingering linger-ing illness. Soon after his discharge from the army he was stricken with tuberculosis. He traveled much in hopes of overcoming the malady and he took special treatment at Salt Lake hospitals, but in vain and knowing know-ing the end was near he was prepared pre-pared to meet his Maker and his death was peaceful and without a struggle. He was born in this valley in 1877 and was in his 47th year. When the Spanish-American war broke out he enlisted and went to the front with I the Utah battery, and he served his country faithfully for eighteen month, spending most of the time in the Phillippine Islands. When he was given an honorable discharge he returned to Utah and followed various vari-ous vocations until his health began to fail. He was a member of the L. D. S. church, having joined when but a young man. Surviving the deceased is the wife, Mary Madsen, and four children, Lever Madsen, of Richfield, Miss Viola Madsen of Beaver, and Alva and Leona Madsen, who are living with the mother at Milford. The wife and children were present at the funeral services held at Sterling last Sunday. |