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Show Final Rites Held For Basin Pioneer, J. Austin Pack Funeral services for J. Austin Pack, 79, former Roosevelt postmaster, post-master, city councilman, and Duchesne county commissioner, who died at his home Thursday, May 18, of a heart ailment, were held Monday at the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Stake tabernacle, Bishop E. J. Nixon officiating. Prelude and postlude music was by Mrs. Helen Larson; invocation, in-vocation, W. Russel Todd; speakers, speak-ers, Daniel F. Mitchell, President Presi-dent Hpllis G. Hullinger, Mel-vin Mel-vin J. Benson, and Byron O. Colton; benediction, Joseph Shanks. A quartet, composed of Vere Johnson, Ronald Benson, Merlin Reynolds and Bennie Schmiett, accompanied by Mrs. Schmiett, and Gertrude Moysh, Moysh and Mary Ellen Gardner, provided musical numbers. A pioneer of the Uintah Basin, Bas-in, Mr. Back was born in Kam-as, Kam-as, May 13, 1871, a son of Ward E. and Laura Cravath Pack. He married Rachel Eva Knowlton in the Salt Lake LDS temple, Sept. 23, 1896, and they moved to Roosevelt in 1907. Mrs. Pack died in 1922, as did their only son. Mr. Pack had served as president presi-dent of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Irriga-tion Co., as a city councilman, and county commissioner. An active members of the LDS church, he had been a member of the Roosevelt Stake high council, a stake president of the high priests quorum, and a bishop of the second ward. At the time of his death he was active in adult Aaronic priesthood priest-hood work. He retired as postmaster post-master April 30, after 15 years of service. He is survived by five daughters, daugh-ters, Mrs. Louie (Deone) Galloway, Gallo-way, Mrs. Lamont (Florence) Nieson, Roosevelt; Mrs. LeRoy (Maude) Wahlquist, Ogden; Mrs. Hugh (Ardis) Barnes, Salt Lake City; and Mrs. Ehschel (Geneva) Shepard, Provo; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Blazzard, Kamas, and Mrs. Pearl Taylor, Berkeley, Calif.; two half-brothers, Wehrli and Glendon Pack, Salt Lake City; a half-sister, Mrs. Maggie Fowler, Salt Lake City; 17 grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild. great-grandchild. Burial was in the Salt Lake City cemetery, with Wehrli D. Pack, Salt Lake City, dedicating the grave. |