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Show Funeral Is Held For Benj. Blake Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Sunday noon for Benj. Blake, former Pleasant Grove resident, who died Nov. 7 in San Franicsco. Ther services were held at the Olpin Mortuary funeral parlors, with Reed Peterson of the Second Ward Bishopric in charge. Speakers were Ras. Gardiner, Neils Sandbery, and E. L. Jarvis, all childhood companions and life long friends of Mr. Blake. All told of Mr. Blake's hard work and thrift, with his devotion to his family, and his church. Music included two numbers, by a ladies trio, Mrs. E. J. Hard-man, Hard-man, Mrs. Lee Beers , and Mrs. Glade Bullock, accompanied by Mrs. Stanley Weeks. Benediction was pronounced by Cecil Blake, a brother of the deceased. de-ceased. Interment directed by Olpin Ol-pin Mortuary was made in the Pleasant ' Grove city cemetery, where Joseph Blake, a brother offered the dedicatorial prayer. Mr. i Blake, for many years a resident of pleasant Grove, was born in St. George a son of Benjamin Benj-amin and Elizabeth Blake. He married Ada R. Black in the St. George temple in 1903, and later moved to Pleasant Grove where he engaged in the mercantile mercan-tile business and was connected with the PI. Grove Mercantile Co. Some years later he moved to 1 San Francisco. Surviving are two sons Clyde and Vernon Blake San Francisco; four daughters, Lucile and Ruth Blake, San Francisco, and Hor-tense Hor-tense and Sarah Cruse Salt Lake. |