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Show Obituaries Leo Robinson Capson Leo Robertson Capson died of cancer in a Salt Lake City hospital Nov. 8. He was 61. He was born in Salt Lake City, May 3, 1924, to Leo L. and Minnie Robertson Capson. He married Alice "Pat" Rice Dec. 23, 1946. He attended the University of Utah, where he was a business major and a member of Beta Theta Pi. He served three years during World War II as a Navy medical corpsman and was stationed in Hawaii and on Eniwetok Island, an atoll in the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific. He was called back into active service during the Korean War and served a year in Korea as a Navy medical corpsman attached attach-ed to the First Marine Division. He was active in the real estate business all his adult life, with Capson-Bowman Capson-Bowman Co. and Capson Investment Co. in Salt Lake City and with Capson Morris McComb in Park City. He also was involved in the building of the Holiday Mall in Park City. He was president of Utah System Builders, a steel building firm, and for 22 years was an owner and manager of University Gardens, a 64-unit apartment complex built by Capson-Bowman. . He was an avid sportsman and golfer and a member of the Chesapeake Duck Club, the Flat Rock Fishing Club and the Salt,Lake Country,Club,. , . -, He is survived by his wife; s()hsrRobertIneCapsOndndToddLebCapson; daughters, Patrice Capson Henriksen and Jennifer Capson; son-in-law, Philo W. Henriksen; grandchildren, Erik Philo Henriksen and Elizabeth Patrice Henriksen (all of Salt Lake); and sister, Sandra C. Lutzker (Van Nuys, Calif.). Memorial services were held in Salt Lake City Nov. 12. Burial was in the Salt Lake Cemetery. Friends wishing to do so can make contributions to Interventional In-terventional Radiology, Deptartment of Radiology, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84132. Donations will be used to train physicians in this relatively new subspecialty of medicine. May Jean Thomas Goodman May Jean Thomas Goodman died Oct. 30 in Coolidge, Ariz., after a long illness. She was 58. She was born in Cedar City, Utah, May 1, 1927, to Charles "Chuck" and Druscilla Reese Thomas. She grew up in Park City and graduated from Park City High School in 1945. She was a niece of Robert Reese and longtime Park City resident Nan McPolin, said unofficial town historian Bea Kummer. McPolin and other members of the family spent much time with Goodman in Coolidge during the last three months of her life and McPolin was with her two weeks before her death. Kummer added Goodman's father was a police officer and her mother was a schoolteacher in Park City. She is survived by her husband, Harold Lee Goodman; daughter-in- law, Brenda; granddaughter Tanda (Coolidge); daughter, Mrs. Rick (Rebecca) Wilkinson and grandchildren Jeanne, Anita and Robert (Milton Freewater, Ore.); sisters, Mrs. Herb (Dixie) Burton (San Diego, Calif.), Mrs. Wayne (Donna) Jackson (Cedar City) and Nan Thomas (Las Vegas, Nev.); and brother, Reese Thomas (Monticello, Utah). Services were held in the LDS Ward in Coolidge. Burial was Nov. 2 in Memorial Park, Coolidge. Arlen L. Gates Arlen L. Gates died Nov. 9 of heart failure at this home in Pleasant Grove. He was 52. He was born July 7, 1933, in Park City to Charles J. and Mary C. "Lottie" Frisby Gates (Carlson). He married Lyndsay Forsyth Bruce of New Zealand Sept. 19, 1957, in London, England. He served in the U. S. Army for more than 20 years and was a member of the LDS Pleasant Grove 11th Ward. Since his retirement, he had been a field captain cap-tain for the Pinkerton Security Service of Salt Lake City . He is survived by his wife; children, Charles F. Gates (Salt Lake), Bruce L. Gates and Charlene M. Gates (both Vernal), Allen H. Gates (Hawaii), Michele D. Gates, Gregory C. Gates and Ross P. Gates (all Pleasant Grove) ;' his mother, also of Pleasant Grove; siblings Jay C. Gates (Roosevelt)', Mildred Leong (San Francisco), Edith J. McClellan (Provo), Carolyn m! Bruce (Opelonsas, La.); and step-siblings Ray F. Carlson, June Pender Leone Brown (all Salt lake), Lee R. Carlson Fern Colledge (both Pleasant Grove), C. LaVar Carlson and Merle Gillespie (both Orem) and Mildred Taylor (Salem). Funeral services were helcj Nov. 13 at Pleasant Grove. Burial was in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. |