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Show WILLIAM T. PAGE Funeral services were held Monday, at 12 o'clock noon in the Roosevelt stake chapel for William Thomas Page, 80, farmer farm-er and rancher in the Uintah Basin since 1906. He died at the home of a sister, Mrs. Mary E. Freston of causes incident to age, Friday at 1:20 p.m. Bishop John L. Swenson, of the Roosevelt Roose-velt ward conducted . the services. ser-vices. . Mr. Page was born May 11, 1874 at Mt. Pleasant, a son of Joseph and Alice Mills Page. He spent his childhood in Mt. Pleasant and Orangeville and came to the Basin in 1906 when it was opened for homesteading. His first homestead was at Hay-den. Hay-den. Later he moved to Roosevelt Roose-velt and at the time of his death owned a farm and cattle ranch at Cedar View. He was a member mem-ber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Speakers at the funeral were Bishop Swenson, Paul S. Hanson Han-son and James E. Bacon. A quartet composed of Melvin Petersen, Pet-ersen, Dwain Buchanan, Garth Tietjen and David Watkins, sang two numbers, and Mat Foley sang a solo. Mrs. Hollis G. Hullinger accompanied the vocal numbers and played prelude pre-lude and postlude music. Prayer at the mortuary was offered by Joe Page, the invocation by Van Winterton and the benediction by T. A. Sullivan. Reed Hancock Han-cock dedicated the grave. Surviving are three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. Mary E. Freston, Mrs. Alice A. Hancock and Samuel R. Page, of Roosevelt; Roose-velt; Mrs. Eulalia Nielsen, of Los Angeles, Calif, and Jerry Page, of Orangeville, Utah. He never married. Burial was in the Roosevelt cemetery under the direction of the Olpin Mortuary of Roosevelt, Roose-velt, i |