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Show Tribute Paid To Reed R. Stevens, , Brooklawn Head. x Funeral services were held in Salt Lake Monday for Reed Roscoe Stevens, 58, Salt Lake City business busin-ess and civic leader, and for more than 30 vears Dresident of Brook- lawn Creamery Company. He died Friday after a lingering illness. Mr. Stevens was the subject of an editorial in the Monday Salt Lake Tribune, of which the first paragraph said "In the untimely passing of Reed R. Stevens, pres. of the Brooklawn Cereamery Co., for a third of a century, the state has lost a civic leader and a popular pop-ular citizen, the west a leading business executive, the Republic an party an able supporter, and the nation a loyal citizen who has been identified with important essential to conservation, irrigation and cultivation of western areas." A son of William H. and Eliza' H. Stevens, he was born at Oakley Oak-ley Sept. 7, 1890. His early life was lived there, and he returned here there after attending the U. of U. and LDS business college. At his farm near there he raised purebred dairy and beef cattle. When he was 21, he started the creamery business which grew into the Brooklawn Creamery Co., embracing em-bracing 9 factories in three state. The Delta plant was opened in 1936, and Mr. Stevens had made frequent visits here, both on business busi-ness and meeting friends. Glen Hortin, manager of the local plant, and Mrs. Hortin, attended the services Monday. |