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Show Young Engineer Dies From Heart Attack The news of the sudden death of Farrell James Nicholes came as a shock to his many friends and relatives rela-tives here. Mr. Nicholes died early Thursday morning of a heart attack at his home in Cedar City. On coming com-ing home from work Wednesday he complained of being tired and over heated and with a gas pain in his stomach, so he retired early. Later in the evening he felt much better but was stricken before morning. Mr. Nicholes was born in American Ameri-can Fork, July 23, 1905, son of Sidney E. and Amanda W. Nicholes. He attended, at-tended, the public schools and graduated grad-uated from the local high school. Four years later he graduated with honors from the Electrical Engineering Engineer-ing department of the University of Utah and started to work for the Victro X-ray company in Chicago. After nine months there he was sent to Los Angeles to open offices for that firm there, where he worked for a year when the company became in-solvent. He worked for the next year for the Edison Supply Company at Al-hambra, Al-hambra, California, before returning to the U for six months of research work. He has been employed by the Midvale Smelter and the Teliuride Motor company of Provo, where he was working until six weeks ago when he accepted the position with I the Columbia Steel Corporation to I aid in building their plant at Cedar City. Mr. Nicholes has been active in the L. D. S. church in every community in which he has lived. Sm-viving are his widow, Mrs. Virginia Vir-ginia Gentry Nicholes; three children, chil-dren, Farrell Gentry, Kathleen and Virginia Grail Nicholes; his parents and the following brothers and sisters: sis-ters: Mrs. Bertha Sagers, Sidney W., Eugene, Foster, Howard and Emery A. Nicholes of American Fork; Samuel Sam-uel J. Nicholes and Mrs. Allegra Scott of Salt Lake City and Sanford H. Nicholes of Ibapah. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 p. m. in the American Fork Second ward for Farrell Nicholes, Nich-oles, who died at Cedar City Thursday Thurs-day at 2 a. m. from a heart attack. "The Morning Breaks, The Shadows Sha-dows Flee," was sung by Rulon and Joseph Nicholes, accompanied by Miss Lydia Olsen. The opening prayer was offered by President Stephen L. Chipman followed by a vocal solo, "I'm A Pilgrim," by Rulon Nicholes. President Clifford E. Young spoke of the desire for a greater knowledge which seemed to be the mainspring of existance for Farrell. He also gave many words of comfort to the family. P. M. Nielson of Tooele, former principal of the local high school, spoke of his acquaintance with this young man and although it had been several years since being in direct contact with his work he declared that the character he possessed pos-sessed while in school gave promise of the work he had accomplished. Farren Sager played a violin solo, "Perfect Day," followed by remarks by Leonard S. Harrington. Mr. Harrington Har-rington spoke of the parents and grandparents of this young man, of their work as pioneers in this community com-munity and of the splendid qualities Farrell had received from these people. peo-ple. Bishop Storrs gave the closing remarks, re-marks, speaking of the work in the ward of this family. Rulon Nicholes sang, "Sleep On Beloved" and the benediction was pronounced by Jos. K. Nicholes. Interment was made in the Salt Lake City cemetery where the grave was dedicated by Samuel Nicholes. Paulbearers at the services were: Fan-en and Elma Sager, Rulon, El-dred, El-dred, DeVerl and Blaine Nicholes. |