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Show Prominent Toquerville Resident Dies After Prolonged Illness I George Chancey Spilsbury, 77, widely known resident of southern south-ern Utah died at his home in Toquerville Tuesday, following a lingering illness. Funeral services ser-vices will be conducted at 5 p. m. today in the Toquerville Ward chapel with Bishop Forrest Kleinman officiating. Mr. Spilsbury was born Sept. 10, 1876 at Toquerville, and received re-ceived his early education in the public schools of southern Utah, after which he attended Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University, graduating graduat-ing with a bachelor's degree in pedagogy in 1897. He served as a missionary and teacher to the Samoan Group of the South Sea Islands, and later taught school in Utah for two years. He was very active in church work, and assisted in the translation trans-lation of the Book of Mormon from English into the Samoan tongue. He married Dorothy May Gregory at Cerro de Pasco, Peru on Jan. 1, 1911, and they received their endowments in the Salt Lake Temple in June 1913. He is survived by one daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Elaine Phelps, Mesa, Ariz.; two brothers, Archie Spilsbury, Spils-bury, Cedar City; Erwin Spilsbury, Spils-bury, Chicago, and three sisters, Mrs. Isabel Christensen and Mrs. Georgiana Leonard, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Estelle Harris, Toquerville. To-querville. ALso surviving are four grandchildren. |