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Show Attending Basketball Game .... Impressive Rites Are Held For Mayor Homer Edwards Impressive funeral services ! were held Monday at 2 p. m. in the Roosevelt Stake Chapel : for Homer P. Edwards, mayor and active civic and business leader of Roosevelt for 40 years, under the direction of Bishop R. Vernon Larson of the Roosevelt Roose-velt Ward, of which Mr. Edwards Ed-wards was a member. Mayor Edwards was stricken with a heart attack Friday, Feb. 22, at about 8 o'clock, shortly after arriving at the new Union High School gymnasium, gym-nasium, where he had anticipated anticipat-ed watching the Union-Uintah besketball game. He was rushed to the local hospital, where he succumbed at 9:50. His death was a great shock to his community, com-munity, primarily because all had thought him in perfect health. He had been at his desk all day working on tax forms and taking care of other affairs for clients of his in the insurance insur-ance and oil business he was engaged in. Speakers who' extolled the useful and exemplary life of Mayor Edwards were three men who had known him intimately during most of the 40 years he had lived in Roosevelt. They were Willard Day, Salt Lake businessman; E. L. Murphy, of Upalco; and Ray E. Dillman, president of the Western States Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Music was furnished by a quartet composed of Bennie Schmiett, Dr. Vere Johnson, Clyde Johnson and Ned Gines; vocal solos by Frank Walker. Esther Wogec and Mrs. Mary Ellen Gardner; prelude and post-lude post-lude music, Mrs. R. V. Larson. Accompanists were Mrs. Larson, Mrs Schmiett and Miss Ann Payne. The invocation was given giv-en by Harold Eldredge; benediction bene-diction by Paul Murphy, and the grave was dedicated by Bishop Edmund W. Evans of the Salt Lake City Cummings Ward. Pallbearers were Earl and Miles Dillman, Paul Lunt, Nathan Na-than Allen, Edward Daley and (Continued on back page) Mayor Edwards . , . (Continued from page 1) David Evans, all nephews of Mr. Edwards. Honorary pallbearers pall-bearers were members of the city councils that had served with the mayor during his tenure ten-ure of office. Mr. Edwards was born March 25, 1885, at Woodstock, Ont., Canada, a son of William and Rose Pettit Edwards. He moved to Rawlings, Wyo.. with his family when he was 4 months old, later moving to Salt Lake City when he was -12. He married Martha J. Miles Dec. 25, 1909, in Salt Lake City. They lived in Bingham, where he was assistant cashier at the Bingham State Bank. They later lat-er moved to Roosevelt, where he was instrumental in establishing estab-lishing the first bank here, serving serv-ing as its cashier from 1912 to 1918. He later worked as office manager for Leslie Ashton and Sons, Roosevelt, for 22 years. In 1945 he went into partnership partner-ship with Clem Labrum, a son-in-law, in an oil distributing agency. ag-ency. Active in civic work, he was a charter member of Roosevelt Lions Club, had served as president presi-dent and secretary of the club and received his 20-year pin a year ago. He had served as Roosevelt city treasurer and recorder and as a member of the city council. He was elected mayor in 1948, and was serving his second term at the time of his death. He was a member of the original or-iginal Uintah Basin Industrial Convention committee from 1930 to 1942. He had served as Utah vice president of the Utah representative in the organization; organiza-tion; served last year as direct or of Utah Municipal League; served several times as director of the Roosevelt Commercial Club, " and had served as the club's president. He was serving as secretary of the Roosevelt Hospital Board 1 at the time of his death. He was a member of the ChuTch of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-Day Saints and served 15 years as a Boy Scout leader, and as a teacher in a Mutual Improvement Association special spe-cial interest class. Surviving ' are his widow; three daughters and one son, Mrs. Elmo (MaRee) Nelson, Bingham' Canyon; Mrs. Clem (Pearl) Labrum, Roosevelt; Mr?. Johnnie J. (Rose Marie) Cook, Roosevelt, and William Homer Edwards, Davis, California; a brother. William J. Edwards, -liippuejg ot Pub 'sapguv soq dren. Burial was in the Roosevelt cemetery, under the direction I of the Olpin Mortuary. j |