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Show Final Rites Held Wednesday For Prominent Civic Leader Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock for Carl Reed Harrison, 42, prominent civic worker and businessman of Roosevelt, who died suddenly in a Salt Lake City hospital Saturday, Jan. 30, of a coronary occlusion. Bishop Ezra J. Nixon, of the Roosevelt Second ward, conducted the services ser-vices in the Roosevelt stake house. Mr. Harrison had been ill only three days. Mr. Harrison was born May 7, 1911, in Vernal, the son of Peter and Margaret Murray Harrison. He was the tenth child of a family of 12. The family moved to Lapoint when Carl was 8 years, where he attended at-tended the elementary school at Lapoint and graduated from the Vernal High School, later attending the L.D.S. Business College in Salt Lake. In 1931 he married Christine Nyberg at Lapoint. To this un- ion three children were born. Mrs. Harrison died .April 4, 1946. On Dec. 30, 1950, he married mar-ried Betty Smith, of Myton. His early days were spent in farming, dairying and raising turkeys. Eight years ago Mr. Harrison moved to Roosevelt, where he became the distributor distribu-tor for a farm equipment company com-pany and operated the Basin Implement Im-plement Co., which he was operating op-erating at the time of. his death. Active in civic affairs, he served as president of the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Kiwanis Club in 1953, and was a member of the board of directors of the Roosevelt Commercial Club. He was a member of the LDS church, and had taken an active part in Boy Scout work. Following is the program carried car-ried on at the funeral services: Prayer at home was offered by Marion Bowman; invocation, Melvin Peterson and benedic tion, Jack Jenkins. Speakers were Bishop Nixon, Arvin Harrison, Har-rison, Willard Day and Cliff Memmott; prelude and postlude music was furnished by Marilyn Anderson; vocal duet, "That Beautiful Land," Miss Esther Wogec and Bennie Schmiett, accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Schmiett; vocal solo, Dorothy Luck, "The End of a Perfect Day," accompanied accom-panied by Mrs. Carol Gardner; vocal duet, "Old Rugged Cross," Mr. and Mrs. Rex Taylor; vocal solo, Carwin Snow, "In The Garden," accompanied by Mrs. Marie Paulson. The grave was dedicated by Jerry Harrison, a brother. In addition to his wife, he is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Geraldine Meyer Salt Lake; Barbara Harrison, Har-rison, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Reed and Brent Harrison, and two step-children, Kenneth and Ver-na Ver-na Harrison, all -of Roosevelt. Two grandchildren and five sisters sis-ters and three brothers also survive. sur-vive. Pallbearers were Howard Harmston, Ronald Cook, Sonny Denver, Lawrence Siddoway, Clyde Murray and Sike Thompson. Thomp-son. All members of the Kiwanis Ki-wanis Club were honorary pallbearers. pall-bearers. Burial was in the Maeser cemetery under the direction of the Olpin Mortuary, of Roosevelt. |
