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Show Final Rites Held In Deseret ForW.Y. Moody Funeral services for Willam Warren War-ren Moody, 88, Deseret resident for fifty years, were conducted Sunday afternoon in the Deseret LDS chapel cha-pel by Bishop O. L. Dutson. Mr. Moody died Thursday at 4:10 a. m. in the LDS hospital following an operation and a lingering illness. ill-ness. A son of William Crestfield and Eliza Bess Moody, was bom July 27 1863 at St. George, where his parents and their brother, John Moody, had been called in the settlement set-tlement of that new community. Later the family was called to open up Nevada communities and they moved to Eagle Valley, where Mr. Moody grew to manhood and engaged with his father in cattle ranching. The family later moved to Desert Des-ert in its early development. Here Mr. Moody met Alice Sebrina Cropper, Crop-per, daughter of Lee Richmond and Fanny Powell Cropper, pioneers pion-eers of that area. They were married mar-ried April 3, 1884, In the old Salt Lake Endowment house, by Daniel H. Wells. For some years they resided in Salt Lake City, where Mr. Moody was engaged by the city to construct con-struct early sewer lines. Part of his early married life was spent in contract work in the fields of mining min-ing construction and reservoir building. About fifty years ago the family returned to Deseret, where Mr. Moody was in business and ranched. He had resided there since. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom six survive. sur-vive. Mrs. Moody died 17 years ago. Surviving are Mrs. Eva M. Cheel, Edgar R. Moody, Melvin L. Moody, Mrs. Laurel Blake, all of Baldwin Park, Cal., and Lee R. Moody and Don M. Moody, of Deseret; Des-eret; two brothers and sisters, Juel Moody and William Alfred Moody Mrs. Helen Hinckley and Mrs. Annie An-nie M. Clawson, all of Salt Lake City; 25 grandchildren, 27 greatgrandchildren, great-grandchildren, and 3 great-greatgrandchildren. Speakers at the services Sunday were E. J. Eliason, M. Ward Moody, and Bishop Dutson. They paid tribute tri-bute to Mr. Moody as a man of energy, ability, and integrity, whose who-se activities in many civic and church affairs had benefitted his community. Music for the services was by the trio, Bertha Love, Erma Cropper Crop-per and Ruth Talbot, piano selection selec-tion by Norma Moody, solo by Thurman Moody, and a solo by Ladd R. Cropper. The opening pra- yer was given by E. L. Moody and the closing prayer by Peter T. Black. Burial was in the Deseret cemetery, ceme-tery, where the grave was dedicated dedic-ated by Bishop Dutson. |