Uintah Basin Standard | 1959-09-24 | Page 8 | Former Duchesne Legislator Dies in Wyoming

I i Former Duchesne Legislator Dies in Wyoming From R. of Salt Lake City come a more detailed obituary of her Rulon J. Larsen who died sud- j denly The death of Larsen was noted fn last week's Standard which told of the fun- eral j He was born in Castle Carbon February t to Caroline Olson and Joseph Smith He schools in Castle Dale and rice and when he was 16 moved with his family to ah when the country was It opened for He f ed high school at the Duchesne County High School located in and after attending t the University of Utah a short served as a corporal in l the Signal Corp of the U. S. Army during World War I. j Upon his he taught I school in Talmage and ii and then passed the Utah State i Bar in He maintained his legal office in Duchesne city for 25 and during this f. time served as county clerk and county attorney of Duchesne County and also mayor and city attorney for Duchesne He served as a representative of Duchesne County to the State J Legislature for four i He was always an active member of the church and served for six years as Bishop of the Duchesne and eight years as a High Councilman for the Duchesne He taught the High Priest Quorum in the Douglas ward in Salt Lake City for many jl He married Verna on March 1929 in the Salt Lake r temple and they made their i home in Duchesne City until j 1945 when they moved their i family to Salt Lake and i they resided at 1317 East j South until the present He served two terms as chief clerk and Research Attorney for the House of and j later was manager of the Federal Surplus At the time of his death he was as a research attorney the Utah State Road Com- He died while visiting his j in I of a coronary on September He is ed by his two and three R. A and Dale of Salt Lake L. Don of San and Rulon J. of and 8 Also the following brothers and Rulon Alton and Vance C. I J Larsen of Salt Lake and J Merrill H. Larsen of