Iron County Record | 1955-01-13 | Page 7 | Heart Ailment Proves Fatal to Kanarra Resident

Heart Ailment Proves Fatal To Kanarra Resident Ellis Christensen, ii2, prominent promin-ent resident of Kanarraville for the past 20 years, died at his home Thursday, Jan. G, of a heart attack. Funeral services were conducted in Kanarraville Saturday Satur-day afternoon, with burial in the Kauanaville cemetery under the dueetion of the Southern Utah Moituary. lie was born on June 21, 1S92, a son of Christian Larson and Lain a G if ford Christensen. He married Rosalie Pollock on Dec. 11, 191' t in the St. George Temple. He had worked, as a carpenter during most of his life, and while living in Eureka, Utah, before be-fore moving to Kanarraville, was employed by the Union Tacific Railroad Company. Surviving are hi-. wTdow, one daughter, Mrs. Wilford (Coy) Berry, and fiv? sons, Maynard, Marvin, Laynn, Dale and Jack Christensen, all of Kanarraville; two brothers, William L. Christensen, Chris-tensen, Salt Lake City, and Owen Christensen, Ted Park, and three sisters, Mrs. J. W. (Cora) Button, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Hyrum (Laura) Dalton, Spanish Fork, and Mrs. Lavel (Christine) Wash-burn, Wash-burn, Monroe. The services were conducted by Bishop Alton Ford. Music was by the ward choir under the direction di-rection of Karla Davis with Boyd Reeves at the piano, and also included in-cluded a duet by LaRee Pollock and Fern Bauer. Speakers were Bishop Ford, Counselor Harris Gubler, Arthur Christensen of Alton, a nephew of Mr. Christensen, and Pres. P. K. Edmunds of Cedar City. Invocation In-vocation was by Lynn Reeves, benediction by John Henry Williams Wil-liams and the dedicatory prayer by James Cornelius.