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Show Prominent Resident Paid Tribute At Funeral Services Funeral services were conduct, ed last Thursday afternoon by Bishop Giles Bolander of the Cedar Ce-dar Eighth Ward for Joseph Edgar Ed-gar Perry. Mr. Perry, 84. a lifelong resident resi-dent of Cedar City, died Tuesday. Sept. 10, of ailments Incident to age. He had engaged in carpenter carpen-ter work throughout most of his life and participated in construction construc-tion of many of the earlier buildings build-ings of Cedar City, and was one of the men who did so much to establish education in Cedar City through their efforts in providing the first building for the old Branch Normal School, now College Col-lege of Southern Utah. Speakers at the funeral services serv-ices were Walter K. Granger and Adam Seegmiller, with brief remarks re-marks by Bishop Bolander. Invocation was by Samuel F. Leigh, benediction by Oscar J. Hulet and the dedicatory prayer by Leland Perry, Provo. a nephew neph-ew of the deceased. Prayer at I the mortuary prior to services was by Frank J. Petty. The musical program included a song by a mixed quartet composed com-posed of Arvilla Day, Zelma Lunt, Vernon Jones and Ray Cosslet; a vocal solo by Bonnie Jean Riddle, and a vocal solo by Christine Winterrose. Mrs. Beth Leigh was accompanist, and the prelude and postlude organ music mu-sic was by Mrs. Marilyn Perry. |