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Show Funeral Held for j L.B.Waddingham j Attended by a large crowd of sympathizing relatives and friends, i impressive funeral services were held Sunday afternoon for L. B. . Waddingham, 57, wellknown Union j Pacific locomotive engineer and 1 veteran of World War I. j The services were held at 2 ; o'clock in the L. D. S. ward chapel, j with the doors to the recreation hall opened to accomodate the j overflow crowd. Bishop I. Mitchell Fisher was in charge. The speakers speak-ers were Rudolph Nielsen, who gave an obituary sketch of the deceased, de-ceased, former Bishop Carlyle Gronning, and Ben Croft, recently returned L. D. S. missionary now living in California but formerly a residen of Minersville and longtime long-time friend of the family. All the speakers extolled the fine character charac-ter ' and f riendliness which endeared en-deared "Babe" to hundreds of friends. For 39 years employed by the Union Pacific as fireman and engineer, he was known as one of the best engineers on the road, and could be depended on to bring his train in safely and on time if humanly possible.- The speakers j also commented on his faculty for finding only good things to say to j or of persons whom he knew. With organ music furnished by Mrs. Parley B. Fisher, other musical musi-cal numbers included two vocal duets, '"Sometime We'll Understand," Under-stand," by Mrs. Harold Cline and Mrs. Clyde Griffiths, and "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine," Iby Mrs. Marcirfe Davis and Mrs. Darwin Dar-win Marshall of Minersville, with Mrs. Fisher furnishing the piano accompaniment; also a vocal solo, "The End of a Perfect Day," by Dan Ferguson, with Mrs. E. L. Smith at the piano. The invocation invoca-tion was offered by Merrill Jameson Jame-son and the benediction by Leonard Banks. The body was shipped to Salt Lake City for burial in Mt. Olivet cemetery, resting place of his parents, further services being held at the graveside Monday morning under V. F. W. auspices. Lindsay Bailey Waddingham was born September 19, 18S8-; at Forsyth, Montana, a son of Thorpe and Phyllis Hall Waddingham. The family moved to Salt Lake City when "Babe" was seven years of age, the latter joining his father fa-ther in railroad service at the age of 18, becoming a fireman April 10, 1907 and an engineer April 4, 1913. For a time he was fireman for his engirfeer-father, who was killed in 1920, when his engine rolled into the ditch at Latimer, south of Milford. iMr. Waddingham saw 18 months of service in France in World War I as a member of a railroad operating operat-ing unit, and was a member 0f the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion organizations, being commander of Escalante Post 1546, V.F.W., at the time of his death. Also he was a faithful memlber of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-men, Engine-men, j He was elected a member of the Milford town board of trustees in 1939 and was reelected in 1941, serving as acting president during the latter part of his second term, when President Walter E. Martin resigned. On November 26, 1922 he was married to Lois Wilma Bohn of Minersville, and is survived by his widow; two sons, Lieutenant Thorpe Waddingham, recently returned re-turned from overseas service with the 15th air force and 13 months as a prisoner in Germany; and Private Lindsay Waddingham, recently re-cently assigned to aviation mechanics' me-chanics' school at Buffalo, New York; one daughter, ,Lois Jewell; and. two sisters, Mrs. Phyllis Ellen Banning and Mrs. Lillian Bush, both of Los Angeles. M |