Iron County Record | 1951-11-15 | Page 11 | Funeral Services Held for Son of Cedar Resident

Funeral Services Held for Son Of Cedar Resident Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed in Salt Lake City Wednesday for Vivian Bertram Decker, 60, retired re-tired Salt Lake City school teacher, teach-er, and son of Mrs. Orpha Bay-les Bay-les Decker of Cedar City. Mr. Decker died at his home Monday Mon-day morning. A veteran of World Wars I and ' II, Mr. Decker retired from the teaching profession in June of this year after teaching in Salt Lake City schools for 30 years. Mr. Decker was born April 21, 1S91, in Parowan, a son of George W. and Orpha Bayles Decker. He marned Elso Anderson in Cedar City in 1912. He was graduated from the University of Utah in 1918 with a bachelor of arts degree, after which he taught school in the Parowan high school for several years, and in 1927 obtained a ( master's degree. He taught at Roosevelt school from 1929 to 1935 and in South hieh school from 1935 until 1942. when he obtained military leave to serve in the Army Chemical Warfare Service. From 1944 until un-til his retirement, he was mathematics mathe-matics and science teacher at East high school. Survivors include hts widow, two daughters, Mrs. Arlene Hop. fenbeck and Mrs. Adele Lang-ton, Lang-ton, Salt Lake City; a brother, Ivan Decker, Parowan; three sisters, sis-ters, Mrs. Myrtle Janson, Cedar City; Mrs. Laurel Tingen, Las Vegas, Nev., and Mrs. Iris Orton, Boulder City, Nev.; his mother, Mrs. Orpha Bayles Decker, Cedar i City, and five grandchildren. Burial was made in the Salt Lake City cemetery.