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Show lifelong Parowan Eesident Succumbs at Home Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon In the Third Ward chapel here for William J. Gurr, 77, native of Farowan and a lifelong farmer and civic worker work-er In the community. The services ser-vices will be under the direction of Bishop Howard M. Adams, after which burial will take p,lace In the city cemetery under the direction of the Jensen Mortuary. Friends may call at the mortuary In Cedar City this, Thursday, evening eve-ning from 6 to 9, and at the family fam-ily home Friday prior to time for the funeral services. Mr. Gurr died Monday shortly before noon from a heart attack while working In the yard at his home. He was found by his wife about one o'clock when she went out to see why he didn't come in for his lunch. It was thought that he had been dead about two hours when found. William John Gurr was born In Farowan Dec. 27, 1889, a son of William H. and Anna Hansen Gurr and lived here most of his 'ife except for a few years spent in Idaho and Milford. He attended attend-ed local schools, the B Y U at Provo and U of U at Salt Lake City and taught school one year in Idaho and for a time in Summit Sum-mit and Parowan. He later engaged in farming and freighting to the mining camps ofNevada, and from Mil-ford Mil-ford to Parowan when that was the end of the railroad. He served as deputy county assessor for more than 30 years. An active member of the L D S Church, he served as counselor In the. old Parowan East Ward bishopric for a number of years, and later was Instructor in the High Priests group in his ward. , He was married to Albena Hy att June 18, 1910 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and she survives him. along with the following children: LaVerl W. Gurr, Salt ' Lake City; Elvin.J.vGurr, Costa Mesa, Calif; Mina G. Orton, Cedar Ce-dar City; Errold H. Gurr, Bell-vUle, Bell-vUle, HI., and Afton Jeanne Booth, Boise,. Idaho, Also surviving are one brother, Peter II. Gurr, Parowan, Paro-wan, and a sister, Mrs. Luella G. Lowder, Cedar City; 16 grandchildren, grandchil-dren, two of which, Stanley and Donald Gurr, have made their home with their grandparents for several years. |