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Show ' S.D. Longsdorf Passes Away Showman D. Longsdorf, 77, prominent pro-minent business man and a former member of the North Sanpete board of cducati:n, died at a late hour Wednesday at the family home af-tr af-tr a long illness of heart trouble. , a:id complications. Mr. Longsdorf was born in Church to, Pa., April 12.1857, the oldest "on of August E. and Katherine E Wonderly (Wunderlich) Longsdorf He came to Utah in 1886 and was employed in Salt Lake City by the t Denver fe Rio Gra -de railroad. Later La-ter he was associated with the Ap-plegate Ap-plegate & Bushby Commission company com-pany and the E. G. Heinz Mercan-; Mercan-; tile company. In 1897 he entered business in Mt. Pleasant with Carl Mauck of Salt ;Lake City and later founded the S. : D. Longsdorf Commission house .He alro became associated with his ! brother-in-law, the late Andrew C Madsen. in the Madsen & Long-d Long-d rf Implement company. He re. i tired frcm active business in 1933 because of ill health. ,' He was elcted a member of the North Sanp.te board of education ,in 1924, and served two four-year terms. i While on the school board he I .served throe years as a member of the state board of control for athletic. ath-letic. in region 4. He was one cf the eldest members of B. P. O. E. lodge No. 849 of Provo. He was married in Salt Lake City October 7, 1919, to Miss Hilda Madsen Mad-sen of Mt. Pleasant, who survives Turn. ' He is also survived by the following follow-ing br-thers and sisters: Michel H. Lonpsdorf , Kansas City, Mo : Mrs. Emma Gardner, Harrisburg, Pa.j, Mrs. J. Holmes Moore, Harrisburg, Va ; Mrs. Levi Cook, Oklahoma City, Okla,; Mrs. Elizabeth Wageck, Pon-ca Pon-ca City, Okla.; and Wllliami L. Longsdorf, Witchifca, Kansas. Funeral services are set for Saturday Sat-urday at 1 p. m. in the North ward L. D. S. chapel. The, Elks lodge of Provo will conduct con-duct services in the city cemetery. |