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Show I oo FUNEML SERVICES FOH FRANK D. BECKED YESTERDAY Funeral services over the remains of Frank D Decker were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the chapel of the Kirkendall Under taking company Mr. Pecker had been a pioneer in three states and had given unto each of them willing and effective service in changing forest, prairie and western waste land into harvest yielding acres. Horn In an eastern state in 1845 his parents brought him to Wisconsin Wiscon-sin while he was yet a boy. There he made his home until 1873, when he and his family moved to Hebron, Neb., ?nd there developed some of Nebraska's Nebras-ka's best land. In 1895 he again moved west and settled at LeRoy. Wyo He gave himself generously to the task of developing the resources of the community and was rewarded not only in temporal gains but by the c rol tiidn w A . A f ,1 l Oiainuuu tlliu 1L-3JWI Ul Wl IfgllJU in which he resided. The services were attended by several sev-eral of the neighbors, who came over one hundred miles to pay their tribute trib-ute of respect to his memory His kindness to all was shown by the preserve of th Japanese section crew who worked along the boundary of his ranch. These men had secured permission to come to Ogden in a body to attend the funeral services. Simple but impressive services were conducted by John Edward Carver of the First Presbyterian church and interment in-terment was made at Mountain View cemetery, thus ending the earthly career ca-reer of one who always had time to aid and help, either by deed or word, v homsoever be met along life s roaa. |