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Show JAMES ELMER CAREY Masonic funeral services were held recently in Salt Lake City for James Elmer Carey, 63, a former resident of the Uintah Basin who died at his Salt Lake home of a heart attack only a few minutes after attending a Shrine ceremonial at the Masonic Ma-sonic Temple. He had been employed as a draftsman in the Salt Lake! County Rcorder's office. j Mr. Carey was born Jan. 31,' 1889, in Pine River, Wis., a son of Henry Oliver and Anna E. Gogin Carey. He came to the Uintah Basin in 1909, after completing com-pleting a two-year graduate course at the University of Wisconsin. Wis-consin. He had served as chairman of the first board of Duchesne County commissioners, and served one term in the state legislature. He also served as a Duchesne County surveyor and engineer. He laid out the town plats of Fruitland. Since 1944, he had been a resident res-ident of Salt Lake City. He was a member of Wasatch Lodges No. 1, Free and Accepted Masons: Ma-sons: Utah Chapter No. 1. Royal Roy-al Arch Masons; Utah Council No. 1, Royal and Select Masters; Mas-ters; Utah Commandry No. 1, Knights Templar; El Kalah Temple, Tem-ple, and Bethlehem Shrine No. 1, White Shrine of Jerusalem. He married Edna Glendinning Dec. 18, 1915. in Fruitland. Survivors include his widow, Salt Lake City; two sons, James Leon Carey, Venezuela, and Glen A. Carey, Salt Lake City; two daughters. Mrs. Gladys .Thew. Arlington, Va., and Marilyn Mar-ilyn Carey, Salt Lake City; one brother. B. Allen Carey, Berlin, Ber-lin, Wis.; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Eagan, Wautoma, Wis , and Mrs. Clara G. Fisher, Layton. Davis County; and one grandchild. |