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Show Funeral Is Held For Deloy Atkin Funeral services were held at the L. D. S. chapel Wednesday afternoon af-ternoon for Deloy Atkin, 27, more familiarly known aa "Dutch" among his friends, who died Sunday Sun-day aftemon after an illness extending ex-tending over a period of some five months. Burial took place in the j Beaver cemetery. The funeral services were in charge of Bishop M. J. Christen-i Christen-i sen and he and former Bishop W. l A. Miller of Beaver were the speakers. The opening prayer was j offered by J. W. Myers and the benediction, also the grave dedica-I dedica-I tory prayer at Beaver, were offer- ed by D. A. Tanner. Deloy Stephen Atkin was born in Milford December 1, 1909, the son of James H. and Sarah Gale ' Atkin. He grew to young manhood j here, attending the local elemen-! elemen-! tary and high schools and was well ! liked by all who knew him. As a growing boy he had rather frail I health as a result of scarlet fever j when five years old, but he ap-' ap-' peared to outgrow this frailty and I had worked on the section for some I five years and spent the summer 1 of 1936 with a Telluride work i crew in the Beaver mountains. He ; had never recovered, however, from an attack of gas poisoning which ! he suffered last spring at one of the local mines. The deceased is survived by his j parents and by one brother, Warren, War-ren, local railroad man; and a sister, sis-ter, Mrs. T. B. Williams of Grand Junction, Colorado, who, with her husband, came to Milford for the services. |