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Show Cedar Resident Passes in Provo Hospital John Urie Hunter, 63, a native of Cedar City, died Wednesday, June 10 in the Utah Valley hospital hos-pital in Provo after a lingering illness. Funeral services were conducted Saturday in the Berg Drawing Room chapel by D. Ec-cles Ec-cles Cameron, bishop of the Provo Pro-vo Eighth ward. Burial was in the Provo City burial park. Mr. Hunter was born in Cedar on Nov. 19, 1889, a son of David W. and Sarah Jane Urie Hunter. He received his education in the schools of Cedar City and for a number of years engaged in farming with his father. Later he worked he worked with the Columbia Steel company in the Iron mines at Iron Springs, serving serv-ing as pit foreman for 14 years. In 1930 he moved his family to Provo where he had accepted employment at the Utah State hospital, for the past 11 years he has been employed by the Provo uiy parks department. He married Hortense Keel of Cedar City on June 2, 1910. Surviving are his widow, two sons and two daughters: Bryce K. Hunter, St. Louis, Mo.; Robert A. Hunter, Mrs. Charles (Boud-wyn) (Boud-wyn) Warner, Mrs. Charles (Doris) (Dor-is) Jex, Provo; six grandchildren; three brothers and four sisters, Del Roy Hunter, Alex Hunter, Melvin Hunter, Mrs. Agnes Wood and Mrs. Kate Stevenson, Cedar City; Mrs. Nellie Armstrong, Brigham City, and Mrs. Mollie Harris, Beaver. |