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Show Funeral Services Conducted For Thomas J. Higbee Funeral services were held In the Third Ward chapel Monday afternoon for Thomas J. Higbee, Ct, who died Friday after a serious ser-ious illness of about 12 days. Mr. Iligbee was stricken on April 2f, and weak?nnd gradually until death came oh May 6. A. life long resident of Cedar Ci,ty, Mr. Higbee was born here on July 6, 1S8T), a son of Samuel Alonzo and Sarah Ann Jones Higbee. Hig-bee. He is a fonner employee of the State Road Commission. In June, 1913, lie married Persis Stratton in Hurricane, who survives sur-vives him. Besides his widow, he is survived sur-vived by three sons. Keith and Weston Higbee, Cedar City, and Lloyd Higb?5, Salt Lake City; a brother, Alonzo Higbee, Cedar City; thr?p sisters, Mrs. Gwen Matheson, Monrovia, Calif.; Mrs Lillian Macfarlane, Cedar City, and Mrs. Tearl Lence, Salt Lake City. Also surviving are two prandchildren, two half-brothers, Lamont Higbee, Burbank, Calif., and Waldo Higbee, Monrovia, Calif., and a half-sister, Mrs. Alice Clifton, Cedar City. The funeral services were conducted con-ducted hy Bishop Austin Hey-wood. Hey-wood. Prayer at the mortuary be-fore be-fore the services was by Bishop Hevwood. invocation hv L. f. Miles,, benediction by I. E. Riddle, Rid-dle, and dedication by Leo Ereves, Hurricane. Speakers were Wayne Wilson,. Hurricane; Walter K. Granger and George W. Grimshaw. The musical program included a song, "My Father Knows," by n mixed quartet composed of Lois McConnel, Mamie Eck. Ray Coss-lett Coss-lett and Wm. Macfarlane, accompanied accom-panied by Mrs. Beth Leigh; a vocal vo-cal duet. "In The Garden," by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wood, alsi accompanied bv Mr.. Leigh, and a vocal solo, "Oh, My Father," by John Davis, accompanied bv Miss Farreldone Whatcott. Prelude and postlude organ music was by Miss Whntcott. |