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Show Millard Watson Stricken; Last Rites Today Jill ll II" I.IIIL M I 'X J 1 D MILLARD WATSON Funeral services will be held this afternoon for Millard Dow Watson, 69, who died early Mon day morning follow! .g a two week's illness. Services will be held in the First ward chapel and will be conducted by Bishop H. P. Dotson, and officials of the Elks lodge. Mr. Watson, who at the time of his death was Exalted Ruler of Cedar City lodge .No. 1556, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, suffered a paralytic stroke two weeks before his death. He had just returned from a meeting of the State Elks Association As-sociation in Provo. He had been active in the local lodge since It was chartered, having served in a number of chair offices, and on numerous prominent committees commit-tees of the organization. Mr. Watson had spent 40 of the last 45 years of his life in Cedar City, having operated a barber shop here during most of that time. He resided in Las Vegas, Nev. for about five years during World War II. He was born in Parowan on February 21, 1881. a son of Lorenzo Lo-renzo Dow and Sarah Melissa Clark Watson, pioneer residents of Iron county. He was educated in the schools of Parowan, at the Brigham Young academy at Beaver Bea-ver and at the Branch Normal school in Cedar City. On November 20. 1907. he mar-ried mar-ried Lola Sawyer at Parowan. He is survived by his widow and two sons, L. Dow and Millard Mil-lard Watson, Cedar City; a daughter, Mrs. Billie Clark. Las Vegas, and three grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, broth-ers, D. C. Watson. St. George, and Ralph C. Watson, Los Angeles; An-geles; 15 sisters. Mrs. Pearl Ly-man, Ly-man, LeGrand. Ore.; Mrs. Alma McGregor, Provo; Mrs. Irene King. Salt Lake City; Mrs. Afton Hunt and Mrs. Lunita Wilson, Los Angeles; Mrs. Ora Eatough, Mrs. Iva Findlay and Mrs. Flor-Ine Flor-Ine Johnson, Kanab; Mrs. Bertha McGregor and Mrs. Vivian Woodbury, Wood-bury, St. George; Mrs. Elizabeth Adams. Parowan; Mrs. LaVerd Lillywhite, South Gate, Calif., and Mrs. Nevada Driggs, Gooding, Good-ing, Idaho. Burial will be in the Cedar City cemetery under the direction direc-tion of the Southern Utah mortuary. |