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Show Last Rites Held For WJUlartin Funeral services were held Sunday Sun-day afternoon for W. R. (Bill) I Martin, 55, native of Milford valley val-ley and pioneer southern Utah automobile mechanic and dealer.' The services were held in the lo-j cal L. D. S. ward chapel, with Bishop Bert H. Weight in charge. ! The speakers were Postmaster! Rudolph Nielsen and former Bish-I op William A. Miller, now a resi-( dent of Beaver. Both paid tribute , to Mr. Martin as a citizen who would be sorely missed in the community. The opening prayer was offered by R. W. Jones and the benediction by Leonard Banks, while Bishop Weight offered the dedicatory prayer at the grave in the Milford cemetery, where burial bur-ial took place under the direction j of the Southern Utah Funeral home. In addition to entry and exit music on piano and violin by Mrs. Parley B. Fisher and Mrs. Macel Horton, several numbers were given giv-en by a ladies quartet composed of Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. J. M. Hughes, Mrs. E. R. Moody and Mrs. Clyde Griffiths. Pallbearers were M. H. Pool, Theodore Kronholm, L. A. Wy-nEvttght, Wy-nEvttght, Roy Cottrell, Anton Sva-lina Sva-lina and Roy Coleman, members of the local Odd Fellows lodge, with which Bill had been affiliated for many years. A few years ago he wris presented with a 25-year jewel in recognition of his membership mem-bership in the local lodge. Also, he was at one time a member of the Milford Lions clu'b. William Reuben Martin was born November 26, 1886 at the Martin homestead a few miles south of town, a son of Peter S. and Ellen Orwin Martin. He attended at-tended the Milford school and had made Milford his home all his life. With the coming of the automobile, automo-bile, "Bill" found something entirely en-tirely to his liking and he was not far distant from some kind of a gasoline engine from then until he was taken to the hospital the day before his passing. Death occurred occur-red Wednesday, January 28, and was due to a heart attack though he had suffered from stomach trouble for some time. He was married August 20, 1927, at Las Vegas, Nevada to Zuma Leetham Craig of Salt Lake City and she survives him; also his aged mother, Mrs. Ellen V. Martin, and one brother, Harry Martin sr. Milford is not going to be quite the same with "Bill" Martin gone from the scne and he is going to ''be missed in scores of ways. Always Al-ways one to give freely of time, means and equipment for innumerable innum-erable community and other activities, activ-ities, there are not many present or past residents of Milford who have not partaken of his generosity generos-ity in some form or another and he numbered his friends by the hundreds. |