Show t m Former ormer Messenger Editor 71 Dies AtIt At AtI I Salt lt It Lake City v lJ I F. F c r a i y V I Ia I t. t e a J a I Christen Axelsen former Sanpete ci civic ic cY leader who died Wednesday of heart ailment Photo courtesy of Deseret News I Christen Axelsen 71 for 20 years j in educational and civic leader in Sanpete county and editor and publisher pub pub- lisher of the Manti Messenger in 1903 died at a Salt Lake hospital Wed Wed- morning of a coronary sis He had been a resident of fait alt Lake since 1918 and lived at fe East Fourth South St. St I Mr Axelsen was born bom in Aalborg je July 24 1875 a son of homas Christen and Elsie Jensen JensenI I Axelsen elsen The family came to Amera Amerin Amer- Amer a in 1879 and lived for a short time Juab county before coming tonti to lanti where they made their home I e e elder Mr Axelsen was one of e j workmen who helped construct I e Manti temple and it was there on I August 23 1899 that the son married arriet Belle Bird daughter of Dr d Mrs C. C H H. Bird Mr Axelsen commenced d 40 a n year 40 year I Caching aching hing career at Mayfield in in 1898 i e e later taught in the Manti ManU public pools ili the Manti high school and anden en from 1920 until his retirement 1938 as director of the industrial ts is division of the Horace Mann high ool in Salt Lake City Perhaps Mr Axelsen's most notable igle civic achievement was the or- or of the Sanpete County Fair Fairi i in 1914 He was president t the association in 1914 15 Other civic sei services vices in Manti in- in I ded aed a term as city recorder clerk the youth south Sanpete school board id d a a member and officer of the anti Commercial club for many tars ars rs He was a lover of the out-of- out ors s and also a skilled cabinet maker J trade which he learned from his hisor or Cher and which he followed as a e was a graduate of the then Young Academy and took Continued on last page pagel 4 4 FORMER MESSENGER EDITOR DIES AT SALT LAKE CITY Continued from page 1 post-graduate post work at all aU three of Utah's universities An active member member member mem mem- I ber of the L D S church he was a Seventy in the ward Salt Lake City at the time of his death Beside his widow he is survived by a daughter Mrs Riley Alice Elsic El Elsie El- El l- l sic sie Heath and two sons Thomas H H. and Karl C. C Axelsen all of Salt Lake City by 11 grandchildren and five great Funeral services will be held at 1215 Saturday afternoon at the Joseph Jo Joseph Joseph Jo- Jo seph William Taylor mortuary N. N Main Street Salt SaIt Lake City Interment Interment Interment Inter Inter- ment will be in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park |