| Show mom ATTORNEY GEO GED 0 LUND LOND DEAD george romney lund 48 years of age native of st george and for more than a quarter of a century prominent in political legal and business circles of southern utah died at 6 friday evening at the holy cross hospital from com coin following a miner operation members of the family will take the body to st george today where funeral services will be held probably sunday judge lund as he was familiarly known all over the intermountain region even before his tise rise in the legal profession has been a distinct distinctive tive ve figure in utah and contiguous territory for more than years he was a son of the late robert C lund member of the woolley Wo ulley lund judd company who was one rf the earl earliest iest pioneers of nf southern utah born at st george and one of a large family he received only a common schooled school education ti and then fired by ambition to rise hignel studied at home and in the intervals of work as clerk in a I 1 grocery store and fitted himself to pass the bar examination i the admission to the bar was secured without difficulty but in a sparsely settled section clients were few to a comparatively unknown youth willard F snyder mine promoter and operator of salt lake gave the young attorney his first case and since that date success attended nearly all of his endeavors although his father was a prominent democrat in state political circles george R lund allied himself with the republican party and fot fo twenty seven years evergin ever since utah was admitted to the union as a state he had been active in republican political circles he was a delegate to every state convention held since statehood served several terms as city attorney of st george was county attorney of Wash Lugton county during 1920 21 and was reelected to the same office at the 1922 election As an after din dinner ner speaker an and d impromptu orator judge lund had gained a reputation that was more than statewide state wide his talents as au an impersonator were marked some years ago he declined a flattering offer from a manager of a vaudeville circuit to present his ability on the sta stage ge judge lund is survived by his widow mrs mary A lund of st george and six children three of the nine born bom to mrs lund having died in infancy the living children are mrs airs S B aleath potter provo laura kathleen phyllis george and robert andrus lund all of st george five brothers robert C gilbert R joseph R james and louis R and two sisters mrs airs jennie brown of st george and mrs airs elizabeth hills 0 of salt lake judge lund came to salt lake from st george december 23 he received treatment tor for an ailment that was not regarded serious thursday day afternoon complications developed that caused his death I 1 salt lake tribune |
