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Show i . " Funeral's LEWIS K. HAMILTON Funeral rites for Lewis Kel-sey Kel-sey Hamilton, 52, . wha'died at his home in Duchesne Monday, Nov. 14, of a coronary; occlusion, occlu-sion, were held today 'in the. Duchesne LDS chapel, Bishop Byron ,S. -Collett officiating. .' Mr. Hamilton was born July 19, 1897 in Nine Mile, Utah, a son of William and Liza ;Bird Hamilton. He - moved 'to the Uintah Basin- in 1906, where he engaged in farming. s ' He married Lacey Bell Avert, Jan. 3, 1945, at Price. He .is survived by his -widow, Duchesne; his father, Price; three sisters, Mrs. Zada Brund-age, Brund-age, Roosevelt, Mrs. Pearl Mair, Tooele, and Mrs.-Vivian. Bentley, Price. . Interment was in the Myton city cemetery. J. VERN RIFE , Funeral services for J.. Vern Rife, 62, well-known Uintah --Basin printer and newspaperman, were held Wednesday morning in the Duchesne Stake .tabernacle, .taber-nacle, under the direction of Eureka Lodge No, 71 1, Benevolent Benevo-lent and Protective Order of Elks. Bishop Byron S. Collett officiated. Mr. Rife died at-his home at about 6 o'clock Sunday morning of a sudden heart attack. . Born May 12,' 1887, at Dragon Hollow, Juab county, a son of John and Alice Howard Rife, he was employed in the mining and lumbering industries and as a railroad contractor- in- Idaho, Washington and Canada as a young man. Later he learned the printing trade and with a brother, broth-er, C. E. Rife, operated the Eureka Reporter for Charles E. Huish. They purchased the paper and operated it as a partnership from 1931 to 1941. ' He moved to Duchesne" in 1942 as printer-operator of the Uintah Basin Record. Sillce T947 he. had been manager -'of--.that newspaper. '" He married Rhea -Ethel 'Wallace, 'Wal-lace, Dec. 9, 1929, -in' Salt Lafce City. He was a member of "the Benevolent and -Protective -Order of Elks,' Eureka' Lodge -'No: 71'1 . Surviving are his widow; a son, Robert Vern Rife, a. student 'at the University' of Utah;-; a daughter, Jean Rhea- Rife, Dti- chesne; a stepson; Howard Earl j Wallace, stationed with the ma- rine corps at Oceanside, Calif. |