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Show I ni i 'Veteran Editor Is TakenBy Death Funeral services were held Sui day at Salina for Howard Wesley Cherry sr., 70, publisher of the Gunnison Valley News and the Salina Sun, who died Wednesday ! at 9 p.m. of a heart attack. He j had been ill four weeks, j In the newspaper business since ' he was 15 years old, Mr. Cherry j had published The Xews since j 1919 and The Sun since 1924. He was born in Tioga, Illinois, September 28, 1870, a son of Alfred Al-fred N. and Mary E. Banks Cherry. Cher-ry. Mr. Cherry moved to Salt Lake City in 1SS0, later working and residing in Nevada, Arizona and California before returning to Utah in 1917. He then published weekly papers in Moab and Marysvale before taking the Gunnison Gun-nison paper. He married Orsa Hurd in Globe, Arizona, June 16, 1913. He is survived by his widow and a son', Howard Wesley Cherry jr., both of Salina; a step-son, Roger Bolton, Bol-ton, of Palo Alto, California and two brothers and three sisters. M |