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Show Funeral Services Scheduled for John Williams. 57 Funeral services will be held j Saturday at 2 p. m. in the Cedar I First ward chapel for John Lay-ron Lay-ron Williams, 57, local sheepman and active church worker, who died in the Iron County hospital Wednesday following a lingering illness of Hodgkins disease. Services will be conducted by Bishop H. P. Dotson of the Cedar First ward. Burial will be in the Kanarra cemetery under the direction di-rection of the Jensen mortuary. Friends are requested to call at the mortuary Friday, Feb. 17, from 4 to 8 p. m. and Saturday from 10 a. m. until the time of the services. A son of John H. and Suzannah Pollock Williams. Mr. Williams was born Oct. 8, 1892 in Kanarra. He has spent practically all of his life In Iron county, except for a few years spent in Colorado. lie mil nut li a.tiyin ill iinu i and the Branch Agricultural college col-lege in Cedar City. On June 8, 1914 he married Myrtle Graff of Kanarra in the St. George LDS temple. Until the time of his last illness, ill-ness, he had been engaged in the sheep business in Iron county. coun-ty. He had been a member of the elders quorum of the Cedar First ward, and was active in affairs of the quorum. Survivors are his widow, Cedar City; a son Dr. Rymal G. Williams, Wil-liams, Cedar City; two daughters, Mrs. Merna Hansink, Cedar City, and La Fawn Williams, Salt Lake City; a brother, Clark Williams. Merced, Calif.; four sisters, Mrs. Florence Fife, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. Hazel King, Bend, Ore.; Mrs. Winnie Schienfelt, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Wavie Peterson, Honolulu, and five grandchildren. |