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Show Military Honors Given Service Man Military honors were paid Ira Cox, World War veteran, at the services held on August 26 at the East ward chapel. The services were under the direction of Bishop C. Dennis White, the American Legion having charge of the burial ceremonies at Mountainview cemetery. Music was by a mixed quartet. A solo was rendered by Miss Lucille Huntington. Prayers were offered by Chaplain Joseph Manzeino and Thomas Grimshaw Remarks were made by J. F. Tolton, who gave a sketch of the military service of the departed soldier. Ira Cox was born in Beaver, March 7. 1SS3, a son of William James and L:.ura Cox. Early during the late w:ir, Mr. Cox volunteered to serve his country, enlisting in the Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh Regiment of Engineers. Living Liv-ing at Montana at that time, he gave Beaver, Utah as his home address. He received his training at Camp Mead, his company being one of the first to go overseas. Faithfulness to the performance of duty brought to tin- deceased promotion from the ranks to corporal. When he returned re-turned to his own country after the signing of the Armistice a call came for an army of o-.tpation, Corporal Cox again enlisted. As n result of gassing received while in the service, tuberculosis developed and he was sent to Pine Crest sanita-ium in New York, where he died on August is Besides his aged m.,ihe.-, there are surviving two daughters. Delia and Sadie Cox and four Msters. Mrs. Geo. Brown, Mrs. Sil Co-:, and Miss Bernioe Cox, and one brothei, Theodore Theo-dore Cox. A volley was fired over the grave in Mountain View cemetery ceme-tery and taps were sounded by bug-lar bug-lar Ralph Williams. The grave was dedicated by Bishop C Dennis White. Beaver City Press. |