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Show PATRIARCH EDWARDS ANSWERS LAST CALL: HIGHLY RESPECTED SUN CLOSES CAREER IN SUDDEN DEATH Mos s Edwards, a Patriarch of the Moimo '. Church, and for sixty years a resident of this county, died last Friday morning at his home in the ; Mainlerfiehl community, sr; miles north of Beaver. A kuslcd attery caused him to suddenly experience pain in the middle of the night, mid he had a premonition that his time had come. A doctor was summoned but Mr. Kdv.ar !s passed away in less than two hours. A few months ago, the Edwaid.-family Edwaid.-family moved from Milford to farm property north of Beaver. Mr. Edwards Ed-wards liad been able to do a full day's work regularly through the summer nluuui;,h ho suf. red much from rheumatism. lie was sixty-nine years old last May. He was born in England, and came to this country at the ape of X? nine. The fa lily settled in Beaver county, where he ed c .ltii.aously, except for two periods when he served his church on missions. During Dur-ing all of his life, church work was his greatest concern, and it might be said that he lived his life for his church. Always well thought of, he was known as a 'good sport' in his contacts with people of all classes. Ability to make friends was known as one of his strongest traits. Surviving him are his sorrowing widow, eight children, four of them v boys and four girls, and two broth- ers, Nephi and Dave, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Hutchings, of Ely, Nevada. Neva-da. Beautiful funeral services were conducted in Beaver Sunday afternoon after-noon and he was laid to rest in the Mountain View Cemetery'- |