| Show funeral services held in salt lake city for lames james edwin gurr funeral services evs were held in the L lincoln ancin ward chapel in salt lake C city ity on monday at 12 30 p in m for james edwin gurr 54 native of parowan carowan Pa rowan whose death resulted from a self inflicted gun shot last arl fn day in that city several people from here left saturday to be in at teri dance at the selvi services c as including his brothers P peter at ar H and won wm J gurr gum and the for formers corners ners wife a sister luella G lowder of cedar city and ad four sisters in law mrs mm jos B dalton ZI of this city mrs mok H B rob robinson and mrs ellis ella robinson of paragon all ah and mrs pearl mcconnell of ce cc ther dar City ity 1 1 these people report that very wo an funeral forhand service were a held with two forest officials from the ogden office C N woods wood a and 0 range olsen and a neighbor it mr nephi J jensen e am being the s speakers peak scott M matheson offered the a 0 pening prayer clifford empey the closing prayer and george and alfred durham sang a duet duat a as a part on the funeral program mr me gurr served in the forest department for 34 of his 54 years of life part of the tune time in utah and part in nevada and was supervisor of the wasatch national forest with headquarters in salt lake city at the time of his death during his years of service he had been very active in furthering the conservation of forest resources through fire prevention and better forestry practices he was interested in the preservation of wildlife and was wall an active member of the local gun and rod club while serving on the dix le ie and was a club officer for several years ile he was wall hem born here august 6 1888 a son am of wm win H and anna hansen hamen gurr gure and received his early aducal tion here after which he attended the B Y U he started out with the forest service as a a guard on the old sevier national forest in 1909 with his headquarters here who when the sevier and it dixie forests war were e combi combined tiLd in 1919 mr me G gun dr was made deputy su supervisor perves or dur ing part of this thal time he lived in richfield in 1925 he was made sup or of the tia libe national at 1 for est eat in nevada and returned in 1931 I 1 to be supervisor of the dixie forest with headquarters in cedar city of the W wa he A as made supervisor satch national forest on march 10 1936 when the family moved to salt lake city ile he married mary Elin elizabeth eliabeth beth robb kobb here on june 7 1911 and she ano ana the follo following w ing children survive T three ahme sons som james boyd gordon and kenyon gurr who are serving in the U S army amy two daughters mrs mm robert P beal of monterey california and ethyl G mathews mathew of salt lake city also the two bro bm them and one sister mentioned a bove |
