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Show Funeral Services Honor Howard Edwards Mrs. Hilma Lamoreaux Funeral services for Howard How-ard Edwards, 53, were held in the Paragonah Ward Chapel Saturday, May 1L. Mr. Edwards Ed-wards passed away May 9 in a Salt Lake City hospital. Bp. Boyd Robinson conducted conduct-ed the funeral services and Mrs. Wilma Lamoreaux was at the organ for the prelude and postlude music and to ac- company the choir numbers. The choir sang "Sometime We'll Understand," under the direction of D. Amasa Stones. The invocation was by Roger Rog-er Stanworth, a history of the deceased was given by Kendall Ken-dall Twitchell and speakers were Dr. Glenn McCulloch and Gilbert Barton. Special musical numbers were a saxophone solo, "Lay My Head Beneath a Rose," by Mrs. Hazel Jean Robinson, accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Wilma Lamoreaux and a vocal duet, "I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked, by Mrs. Elna Stubbs and Mrs. Mary Dawn Dalton accompanied by Mrs. Itha Mortensen. The closing song sang by the choir was "I need Thee Every Hour" and the benediction was by Wayne Edwards. The prayer at the cemetery ceme-tery was by Gilbert Barton. Military Rites were under the direction of the American Legion. William Howard Edwards was born in Paragonah April 15, 1910 to Morgan B. and Margaret Owens Edwards. He and his twin brother, Grant, were the oldest in a family of 10. Mr. Edwards served an LDS mission to Australia, was in the Navy four years and had a career in the Army. He served as a financial clerk to a bishopric while he was stationed in Tacoma, Wash. In 1964 he was retired from the lif&o wiiTS a medical discharge dis-charge 'after a year in a Denver Den-ver hospital. He was in the service of his country for 21 years. He was married to Gertrude (Sue) Latter March 4, 1952 in Las Vegas. The marriage . was solmnized later in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He is survived by his widow, wid-ow, a son, Douglas Howard, iboth of Salt Lake City; brothers and sister, Lowell of Delta; Cordell, Salt Lake City and Mrs. Donna Whitely, Arlington, Ar-lington, Va. |