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Show Funeral Held Last Friday For James L. Gaisford Mrs. Ernest (Ruth) Rothe, serving an LDS Mission in San Pedro, Calif.; Mrs. Ralph H. (Betty) Spencer and Mrs. Hal W. (Laura) Ritcha, both of American Fork. Burial was in the American Fork City Cemetery. Funeral services for James Lorenzo Gaisford, former resident of Pleasant Grove and American Fork, were held at Anderson An-derson and Sons Mortuary Mor-tuary Chapel, Friday, June 29 at 2 p.m. He was a resident of Bountiful. Mr. Gaisford died at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Tuesday, June 26, following an extended illness. He was born in American Fork, March 24, 1922, a son of Charles Joseph and LaRue Spratley Gaisford. He married Phyllis Foutin Harding, June 25, 1948. She died in Japan, June 20, 1968 while Mr. Gaisford was on a special assignment assign-ment for Hill Air Force Base. He married Dora Lyon, Nov. 7, 1970. They made their home in Bountiful. He graduated from American Fork High School and received special training in airplane air-plane repair technology. He served in the U.S. Air Foirce for four 1 and one half years, ' stationed most of that I time in the South , Pacific during World War II. He was a crew chief on a B-24 bomber. He entered civil ser- ' vice at the age of 18 ' and was employed at Hill Air Force Base for more than 30 years, where he was a foreman on Air Alert. He was sent to England, Japan, Germany Ger-many and many other foreign and domestic assignments as a jet engine repair specialist. Survivors include his widow. Bountiful, his mother, American Fork; one stepdaughter step-daughter and two stepsons, Mrs. Daivd (Deanna) Foulger, Granger; Lynn Lyon, San Louis Obispo, Calif.; Terry Lyon, Salt Lake City; nine grandchildren, gran-dchildren, three sisters, I B -a |