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Show PJoneer of County Suddenly Stricken Mrs. Roy Childs, well known mat-. mat-. ron of this city, received the sad intelligence in-telligence late last Friday evening of the death of her father, Ebbe Jessen, of Manti. Mr. Jessen was enroute to Milford and while on the road he suffered suf-fered an attack of acute appendicitis. He was rushed to the hospital at Beaver, where an emergency operation opera-tion was performed. Death, it was said, was the result of complications which followed the operation. The news of the sudden death proved a shock to the daughter residing in Gunnison, Ebbe Jessen was widely known in Sanpete county and in Gunnison, as he had frequently visited his daughter daugh-ter here. He was a native of Sanpete county, and was born at Mt. Pleasant in 1868, where he received his first tra'ning in the public schools. In 1879 the family moved to Manti, where Mr. Jessen had made his home the most of his life. He spent many (Continued on last page) Pioneer of County Suddenly Stricken i (Continued from page 1) years working on the Mormon temple, tem-ple, at Manti, and eventually became in expert stone-cutter. After the completion com-pletion of the edifice he followed the profession of stone-cutter, contracting many of the stone buildings in Manti. Mr. Jessen was married to Nora Hansen in 1892, and besides the wife, nix sons and daughters survive, Mrs. Carl Anderson of Salina, Mrs. Roy Childs of Gunnison, Mrs. Gail Brooks of Salt Lake, Mrs. Allen K. Barton, Eddie and Elroy Jessen of Manti. Funeral services were held at Manti Man-ti Tuesday afternoon from the Center ward chapel. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Childs attended the final rites. |