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Show Funeral Service Today For Claud JUircIi Fiinernl .sci'vlce.s for Claud IJurcH, (il, will be lu.dd tlil.s af-tci af-tci riooii (I''i'iday at 2 p. m. in the .Second ward church with Iii;;hop Olin If. Iiirle officiating. He suffered a heart attack January 2'J from which he did not recover, parsing away February 2. Claudius Hilton Hurch wa.s born March 1, 1!!2 at Spring-ville, Spring-ville, the .son of George Burch, an English convert to the LDS Church, and Mary Hilton. When he wa.s .six years of age the family fam-ily moved to Lake Shore. He married Annie Ferguson June 2U, 1900 in the Salt Lake Temple. After marriage he and his father bought a fruit farm in what is now Orem. He followed the work of farming and stock-raising stock-raising all his life. His work called him away from home a great deal so in 1920 he moved his family to Provo. Due to poor health he sold his sheep business in 1929 and bought a farm In Pleasant Grove where they resided until 1935 when they moved to American Fork. He was a member of the Alpine Stake High Priests quorum. He was the father of fourteen children, chil-dren, thirteen of whom, with his widow, survive. The children are Mrs. Mark H. Stark (Mary) of Spanish Fork, Mrs. A. Russell Mortensen (Bessie) of Provo, Mrs. Myron W. Jense (Leone) of Pleasant Grove, Mrs. Blaine Van Wagoner, (Fern), Mrs. Boyd Bastian (Vivian), Mrs. Bryan C. Fugal (Jennie) of Midvale; Mrs. William Durrant (Helen) of Mil-ford, Mil-ford, Mrs. Joey Brooks (Ruth), American Fork; Merrill Burch with the U. S. Navy at Farragut, Idaho; Sterling, Stanley, Barbara and Douglas Burch of American i Fork. Also surviving are 13 grandchildren and the following i brothers and sisters, Frank and William Burch of Provo, Arthur Burch of Wallsburg, Mrs. R. H. Andrus of Spanish Fork, and Mrs. J. A. Terry of Provo. i |