Show OF SCHOOL BOUD FOB TEN Y 06 to FIR BEST goo geo it cope died afternoon victim ichim of 0 typhoid ilver I 1 mr an unusually large afflux of mourners e rs floral tributes rn great numbers and of special beauty and eulogies that were nere not merely words but came from the heart of the speaker were nere testimony of the high esteem inspect and loe in which people of our school 01 district school board superintendent aiden t teachers and patrons held goo geo AT A cope over whose remains funeral services were held sunday a afternoon ter n 0 on in the second ward chapel chape bishop ap W A Seeg in charge chaigr there was moisture in the eyes ees of everybody when the coffin was vas brought in end and mrs airs lizzle lizzie hansen played placed a funeral march in subdued tones the services vere mere ope opened nedith with a song jesus I 1 my cross ha e taken by a quartet composed of mrs airs jas AT M peterson Pc terson hattie bean jonathan lloyd and jas peterson mrs airs hanson hansen accompanying ac compan ym invocation ana w as s offered by patriarch jos S horne home after which the quartet sang 0 my aly father other musical numbers dumben a solo by mrs ja jas AT peterson one seeth solemn thought and two quartet numbers proper and modiner Mou iner cease thy th grief the first speaker was vas dr T R hll a life long friend of the deceased h and for many man 1 icara ears the famil phy physician he took for im his text tet character Chai Cha acter lacter is the th diamond thit that qc scratches every other stone eulogizing the remarkable character chi of this man who was nas a fine specimen of noral moral and spiritual manhood president it D young the next speaker testified to the spiritual and temporal tAm caporal cm excellence of goo geo M 31 cope pi evident eident 11 IN habes ha es of tile the board of education read the resolutions solutions ic of respect adapted by bv the board and then referred to tile the deceased as an ideal school board clerk in whom the board had bad unqualified confidence and and I 1 as a eNen bod knows this confidence was not misplaced geo AT cope he said was an out outstanding banding man religiously socially and in a business wan wa and while no man is abb abar it U be mighty hard to find one to fill the position with the board as geo BI cope has filled it maurice cope a brother spoke of the worth of his brother as a family man and as a staunch latter day da saint superintendent A J ashman referred to his long association with nuth the deceased and among other things he said aid of him tint that lie N was ls a master of technique and details and the word vord approximate was as not net in his dictionary ICI for approximate figures ale beci r satisfied him ind and he did not rest until he be had ev cry thing exact to a penny die he speaker gave gae high t to 0 his 1 friends friend loyalty to the people of if the the district the school board the teachers and the school to ins his good character and to his determination for righteousness in a few closing remarks bishop stated that lie he could beu bear be u testimony that all the good things that had been been said by the previous speakers were ere not empty eulogies but absolutely true bishop 11 J hansen offered the benediction and then the remain were taken to the cemetery where bishop F AT ogden dedicated tile the grac the five members of the school board pre president ident 11 N haea lewis W jones S AT jorgensen 1 I A gay and claud payne pane and superintendent A J ashman acted as a s honorary pall bar bearers ers and the active pall bearers were vere john L sevy ji parley eagleb Ma gleb john IV ross james ramsey joseph ogden and george A beal george cope was nas born at pan duitch gu itch utah december 13 1877 the son of amelia lloyd llod and thomas if cope he attended the public schools school of panguitch and the garfield stake academy in lie he entered the brigham young university at provo lie he worked his anav through school and while it at the 11 Y U was nas the chief librarian of the in june 1905 he was as appointed court reporter bortei for the sixth judicial district which chich position he held un until til in 1007 1907 when hp left for a I 1 mission to germany anti and switzerland after returning from his mission in october 1910 lie resumed his work as court reporter and occupied this position until january 5 6 1917 when lien lie he was as appointed clerk of tire the school board ile he married miss all geneva cox a richfield teacher teach cr may 29 1912 flom this flus union the foll following children survive denzel melba nawai 1 ito bart I 1 keith iel th james frank and richard ranging in age ace from founta fourteen en to to two ears cars mrs cope died in august 1925 al mr cope married eunice wilson of panguitch may 6 1926 and she with the eight children sun ines mr air cope V was Vs s an active worker in the church and community he work odi edi in the sunday school priesthood qu quorums and for thil past eight bears ears has been as associated with bishop IV A in the second ard bishopric |