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Show SUMMIT Mrs. Donna Davenport Impressive funeral services honoring Merl Radford were conducted Saturday morning, May 9 in the Summit War( LUS Chapel by Bishop Delo.s Dalton. Prayer with the family fam-ily was given by Robert Hartshorn, Harts-horn, Sr. Invocation by James W. Davenport, Benediction by Alma Lawrence and dedication dedi-cation of the grave by John M. Farrow, The opening and closing songs were by the Singing Mothers "Rest, Rest for the Weary Soul," and "Now The Day Is Over." A vocal solo was by Sharon Rowley. Talks were given by Oscar J. Hulet, Otto Dalley and Harold Smith. Keith Lawrence furnished the prelude and postlude music also accompanied the singing. Those traveling distances for the funeral were the daughters of Mr. Radford and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartshorn, Jr., Paul, Barry, Lisa, and Jane of Chandler, Ariz. They were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alma Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartshorn, Sr. of American Fork. Mrs. Afton Clark same from Springville and was an overnight guest of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Farrow. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crawley and two Children of St. George; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Madsen of Las Vegas, and Elmer Madsen of Boulder City, Nev. Mrs. Virgie Mickelson received re-ceived wond that her son, Senior Master Sergeant Mel-vin Mel-vin A. Mitchell was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster) Clus-ter) for meritorious service as Superintendent, Automatic Digital Network Implementation Implementa-tion and Integration Digital Communications, Division Deputy De-puty Chief of Staff for Operations, Opera-tions, while assigned to the Pacific Communication Area Wheeler Air Force Base, Hawaii Ha-waii from 9 July, 1966 to 22 June, 1969. During this period Sergeant Mitchell's foresight, experience, experi-ence, and understanding of communications problems, particularly in Southeast Asia, aided immeasurably in the growth and success of the Defense Communications in the Pacific. His efforts directly direct-ly contributed to the successful success-ful ' implementation of the fastest and most accurate record re-cord communications system that exists within the Department Depart-ment of Defense. Sgt. Mitchell, his wife and five children now reside in Omaiha, Nebraska, where he is based. A new Relief Society Presidency Presi-dency has been chosen here with Mrs. Shirly R. White as President. Assisting her will be Mrs. Mary K. Lawrence, and Mrs. Pauline M. Hulet. They will replace Pres. Mary G. Dalley, LaRue O. White and Violet R. Hulet, who have served for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stapley received word last week of the arrival of a new granddaughter grand-daughter born to their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Stapley of Boise, Idaho. They left for Idaho on Tuesday of last week to spend some time with their son and family. Mrs. Kenneth Rowley traveled trav-eled to Salt Lake City Thursday Thurs-day of last week to bring her husband home to spend the week end. She was accompanied accompan-ied by Mrs. Ralph Green, who went to the city to visit with Mr. Green, who is still hospitalized. hos-pitalized. Mr. and Mrs. James Prince traveled to Salt Lake City Thursday of last week to take their folks, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dalley. Mr. Dalley is in a hospital there for tests, following a stay at tihe Cedar City hospital. Mrs. Dalley remained re-mained in the city to be near her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Farrow Far-row enjoyed visits Sunday from family members, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Walker and Mrs. Walkers mother of Orem, and Mr. and Mrs. Ordell Walker of Las Vegas. Mr. and Mrs. Von Davis, Laurie and Janice were here from Price to visit Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Otto Dalley. The Dee El Stapleys spent several days in Murray last week with Mrs. Stapley's mother, Mrs. Viola Nielson. The Don Jamison family are here from California. ? |