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Show GEORGE BACON George Bacon, 64, died at his home in Roosevelt Tuesday at 8:50 a.m. following an illness of five weeks. He was born Feb. 8, 1889, at I Hanksville, Wayne County and was the son of William and Florence Hallady Bacon. J A former stockman and coal miner, he worked for 10 years as a driller and steam shovel, fireman. He married Lenora Adams Ad-ams at Cedar City on July 10 1913, the marriage later being solemnized in the Salt LaKe LDS Temple. nA-S In 1936 he moved from Ceaar City to the Uintah Basin, where jhe had since resided. J Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Friday at 2 p.m. in thei 'Roosevelt LDS stake chapel un-'der un-'der the direction of Bishop R. V. Larson, of the Roosevelt ward. , . Friends may call at the f am- ily residence Friday from 11 a. i InY. -until --tima: of services. Bur-1 ; ial will be in the Roosevelt cem- j etery under the direction of Ol-I pin Mortuary. ., , Survivors include his wife,. Roosevelt; two sons, Jim Bacon,: Burley, Idaho; Jack Bacon, ser- ving with Naval Aviation Force ' in California; two daughters, Mrs. John W. (Mona) Bess, Murray; Mur-ray; Mrs. Don (Florence) What-j cott, Salt Lake City; nine grand-1 children; two brothers and two I sisters. Clarence R. and James E. Bacon, Roosevelt; Mrs. Er-' nest Parrish, Salt Lake City and Mrs. Jesse Nielsen, Provo. . , ANNA S. A, PETERSON GRANTS VILLE Funeral ser- j vices will be conducted Satur- day at 2 p.m. in the Grantsviiie Second ward chapel for Mrs. Anna Sophia Anderson Peter- ( son, 49, who died Monday at' 9 p.m. at the family residence after a lingering illness. Bishop! Marvin Barrus will conduct the, service. A daughter of Peter and Alma Lotstrom Anderson, Mrs. Peterson Peter-son died nine days following the death of her father, who died April 5 in Roosevelt. She was not aware of her father's death. She was born Nov. -18, 1903 at Murray. She was married to Christian Alphonso Peterson June 12, ! 1925 in the Salt Lake LDS I Temple. I Survivors include her hus-i hus-i band; her mother, Roosevelt; , two daughters, Mrs. Wallace! (Lorna) Higley, Grantsviiie; and 1 Mrs. Arline Clavell, Salt Lake i : City; three grandchildren; four j ; brothers, Alvin E. Anderson, Vernal; Axel Anderson, Roosevelt; Roose-velt; Oscar Anderson, Encino, Calif, i and Frank Anderson, Ventura, Calif. Friends may call at Tate Mortuary Mor-tuary Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday at the ward chapel at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Grantsviiie City Cemetery. HANNAH M. CASPER Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Wednesday in the Mt. Home ward capel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Mrs. Hannah Miles' Casper, 80, who died Saturday at her home in Mt. Home, following fol-lowing a long illness. Arrange-1 ments were under the direction of Olpin Mortuary. She was born Feb. 2, 1873, in Peoa, Summit County, a daughter of- Oscar and Elizabeth Durrah Wilkins. In 1891 she married Henry Miles in the Logan Log-an LDS Temple. Mrs. Casper was active in the LDS church, having served in the presidency of the Relief Society, Mutual Improvement Association and other LDS organizations or-ganizations at Peoa. The family moved to Mt Home June 3, 1921, where they since resided. Mr. Miles died Sept. 31, 1935. Mrs. Casper was married to George Casper in 1940 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Survivors include her husband, hus-band, Mt.' Home; four sons and one daughter: Edgar Miles, Mt. Emmons; Oral Miles, Ephraim; Carl Miles, Los Angeles; Rue Miles, Mt: Home, and Mrs. Rose Stevenson, Mf Home; a grandson, grand-son, whom she reared. Ivan Street, Mt. Home; 30 grandchildren, grandchil-dren, 48 great-grandchildren; the following brothers and sis-! ters: Mrs. Emma J. Palmer, Ft. Hall, Idaho; Mrs. Sarah J. Lyons, Ly-ons, Provo; Mrs. Mary Walker Mt. Home; Bert Wilkins, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Pearl Monsen, Altamont. CLAIR WITBECK Clair H. Witbeck, 30, of Ogden, Og-den, former Roosevelt resident, died Sunday afternoon in an Ogden hospital of a heart ail-' ment. He was born July 3, 1922, in Manti, a son of Dee and Margaret Mar-garet Billings Witbeck. His early ear-ly life was spent in Manti and at the age of six moved with his parents to Roosevelt, where he resided until 1942 when he moved to Ogden, where he has! since made his home. I He married Patricia McEntire' Oct. 3, 1943, at Ogden. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints. Survivors include his widow; one son, Michael Claire Witbeck, Wit-beck, Ogden; his mother, Roosevelt; Roose-velt; the following brothers and sisters: Evan, Wallace and Daniel Dan-iel Witbeck, and Mrs. Thomas (Ann) Griffiths, all of Salt Lake City; Francis Witbeck, Liver-more, Liver-more, Calif.; Harold Billings, Nancy and Carol Witbeck, all of Roosevelt; Mrs. Elmer (Olive) Dunn, Springville; a grandfather, grandfath-er, Ezra G. Billings. Roosevelt. Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Roosevelt Second ward chapel chap-el by Bishop Ezra J. Nixon. Burial was in the Roosevelt City, cemetery under the direction of Olpin Mortuary. CHRISTY ANDERSON Christy Anderson, 65, longtime long-time civic and business leader in Duchesne and Sevier Counties, Coun-ties, died at his home in Richfield, Rich-field, Utah, Sunday morning of a heart ailment. He was born at Elsinore, Sevier Se-vier County, Aug. 31, 1887, a son of Neils and Anna Christen-sen Christen-sen Anderson. He attended school at Elsinore and for two years, 1906-07 at the Brigham Young University. He married Delilah Adell Peterson Pet-erson on Sept. 9, 1910 at Fillmore. Fill-more. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. For five years he operated a general store at Moroni and in July, 1919, began operating a ranch in Duchesne County. While living in Duchesne County he became active in civic civ-ic affairs and served as president presi-dent of the regional Farm Bureau Bur-eau organization. He also served ser-ved as president of the Duchesne Du-chesne County Chamber of Commerce, was a director of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Co and a board member of the Lake Fork Irrigation Co., a member of the Roosevelt City Council for six years and later served with the Utah State Department De-partment of Agriculture and the U. S. Bureau of Census as supervisor of District One. He owned and operated the Roosevelt Bottling works from 1924 to 1931. At the time of his death he owned a grocery store in Richfield Rich-field and last year opened a second store in Gunnison, both being known as Christy's Market. Mar-ket. Funeral services will be announced an-nounced by Peterson Mortuarv of Richfield. MABLE T, MASSEY Funeral services for Mrs Mable Thacker Massey, 61 who died Thursday, April 2, of a lingering illness, were conducted conduct-ed Tuesday, April 7 in the Vernal Ver-nal First ward Chapel by William Wil-liam H. Wallace, bishop. Burial was in the Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction direc-tion of the Vernal Mortuary Survivors include her husband, hus-band, Lewis Van Massey; eight sons; six daughters, including Mrs. Sylvan (Wanda) Reynolds great - grandchildren, and a brother. |