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Show Funeral Rites for Kenneth Atkinson Held Last Friday Funeral services were last Friday, Aug. 27 for Kenneth W. Atkinson, 63, who died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1976 in the Utah Valley Hospital. The services were held under un-der the direction of Bishop Kenneth Slater of the Pleasant Grove Fourth Ward in the Timpanogos Stake Center. Cen-ter. Speakers at the services were Ray Gammon and Dan Forbes, and Bishop Slater also gave remarks. A life sketch was given by Afton Atkinson. Musical numbers were given by Robert Hicks and Hazel Bullock, accompanied by Zoe James, and by William E. Petersen, accompanied by Rosalie Jacklin. Prayers were given by James Rand Carter, Kenneth Poulson, and by Allen Atkinson, Atkin-son, and the grave, in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery was dedicated by Harold Jacklin. Pallbearers were Duane, Grant, Arlen and Loyd Atkinson, Atkin-son, and Jack Wadley and Ray Gates. Kenneth W. Atkinson was born Oct. 10, 1912, in Francis, Summit County, a son of Thomas A. and Nora Pace Atkinson. He married Erma Goode on April 25, 1934 and the marriage was solemnized later in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died July 11, 1952. He married Edna West Kampman on Aug. 13, 1954. Mr. Atkinson was an elder in the Pleasant Grove Fourth Ward. He had been a farmer and then worked for Geneva Steel for 31 years. Survivors include his widow, two sons, David Atkinson, Lander, Wyo., Dean Atkinson, Orem; two stepdaughters and four stepsons, step-sons, Mrs. Randy (Cathy) Carter, Car-ter, Roy, Web er County; Mrs. Charles (Dolleta) Burrell, Gilman City, Mo.; Kent Roberts, Orem; Larry Kampman, Kam-pman, Holt, Mo.; Gary Kampman Kam-pman and Virgil Lee Kampman, both of Pleasant Grove; four grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren; one sister and two brothers, Mrs. Nual (Berneice) Wadley, Adrian Atkinson and Thelbert Atkinson, all of Pleasant Grove. |
