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Show Early Del tan In CalSfonaia Jack Sly, one of Delta's earliest settlers and farmers, died in Bak-ersfield, Bak-ersfield, California, Saturday, at the age of 65 years, following a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held in Bakersfield Thursday Thurs-day afternoon. His sisters in Delta, Mrs. Effie Justeson and ,lrs. Susie Sampson, and Mrs. Sampson's daughter, Mrs. Bertha Belliston, of Milford, left Tuesday for California. Mr. Sly was born in Willow Bend, now called Aurora, Utah. His early life was spent in Wayne County, and in 1905 he moved to west Millard Mil-lard county, and helped settle the new project that was later named Delta. He farmed on the South Tract for 25 years, and when the family moved from here in 1930, Cecil Ross bought the farm. For several years after leaving here, Mr. Sly was at Mojave, California, engaged in mining, and five years ago the family moved to Bakers-field Bakers-field to make their home, Mr. Sly and his wife, Verne Penney Pen-ney Sly, were the parents of eight children, and also raised a grandson, grand-son, all of whom are surviving in California. Also surviving are his two sisters in Delta, Mrs. Sampson and Mrs. Justeson, and two brothers, broth-ers, Cal Sly, Salt Lake City, and Ira Sly, Ririe, Idaho. |