| Show I 1 0 g k 1152 5 lk I 1 P t i I 1 I 1 t I P W V I 1 1 s TT f tal W 7 tta BB IL pon hon AL thomas W bonnell amasses passes away sunday evening A at t home in san diego begy calif A telegram of eight words tom passed away last night at 10 sent by mrs thomas W odonnell to dr charles E kirth hirth at vernal and received monday morning conveyed to the homeland of thomas W odonnell that his bis long suffering had ended in t his demise and brought sorrow and grief to his many friends in all I 1 parts of the uintah basin aasin the immediate cause of his hig d aach was an attack of multiple myelon ata a disease of the bones when mr odonnell early in january 1927 lett left vernal lor for salt lake city to attend the ithe session of the legislature in his capacity of state sen sea ator 1 the fifth senatorial district of utah Duch duchesne duchesse esue and uintah counties it way was known that he had complained of illness but it was riot not thought thal thai anything serious had befallen him ile he attended tended al the senate sessions several days and then ithen was forced to seek beek release froni from his duties and remain in his apartments within a ew days the illness assumed a 9 serious aspect and so serious became 1 the zana se natora tors condition that within a tw few weeks his life was des despaired paired ot of however under tie the constant devoted attention of mrs ODo odonnell irnell and other physicians bis his condit condition lao improved and during the summer of 0 1927 he came home with his family the following winter he and hla his family spent in san diego california and again the illness claiming him as its victim made serious inroads and again his life was despaired of later lie tallied and he ind his hia family cams camp back to ver fial in the ithe summer of 1928 during that stay slay in vernal senator odonnell improved in health to an extent em enabling abling him to walk with the ild aid of crutches and make brief visits ifsits to his friends when he fie and his family departed for san gan diego ones once more late in the summer of 1928 not one of hla his host of friends tri ends in the uintah basta basra thought otherwise than that tom odonnell would again be back in vernal during the next summer but fate decreed otherwise senator ODon nells illness despite the remarkable resistance displayed by the patient made such inroads that soon boon it was apparent that the ithe patients life could not be saved that it was as only a question of 0 when his bis suf felings would be ended toy by death the last year of the ithe senators life was a span of uninterrupted pain and anguish with no hope of ultimate recovery to assuage the anguish of himself or of his hia devoted wife his hia friends here deiv were advised of the fact that nothing with wathla withla I 1 a the bounds of hum human an effort and of human science could avert tire the end senator Ss odonnell was on an outstanding factor in the development of the uintah basin taking active and enthusiastic part in whatever phase of 0 in this thir endeavor was wag assigned him As aa an attorney his bis name was known far beyond the boudary lines of the uintah basin and of the state of utah words are a feeble meins means of 0 expressing sorrow and grief at the departure of so eo good a friend va aa was tom odonnell so good a neighbor but we remaining in the old hom ho deland eland believe that the devoted wife of our departed friend will understand us when we say to her that wo we grieve over her bar bereavement rea and our loss thomas odonnell was a native of loll 1011 mont colorado born november 12 1875 in that section of northern colorado famed tor for 1 its t 9 agricultural pursuits IMS he received hla his scholastic and legal education in denver when the troubles lei between the united states and spain ln in 1838 1898 reached the point where bord and gun had to be resorted to as arbiter of the ithe dispute mr air odonnell heeded the call of president mckinley and enlisted ju in the second united states volunteer cavalry this regiment was known popularly as ae col Tor reys rough riders mr air odonnell was wao a member of troop kroop B following the termination of the war with spain to ln october 1898 he came to utah in 1899 and two years later became a trident resident oi of uintah county locating at vernal and establishing a law office there on june 6 1905 mr odonnell OD annell was married to mary diary maud garrott garrett in vernal no children were born to this union but mr and mrs airs odonnell adopted a girl now eleven years old in 1913 he was admitted to the practice of law before the supreme court of utah throughout his bla life he be was waa affiliated id with the republican party for four our years tears he be borred as county attorney of uintah county and for or eight years he be was city attorn attorney ty of vernal venial during the world war lie was wag chairman of the legal advise advisory ry board of uintah county in 1924 he was unanimously elected senator to represent the fifth senatorial discontinued on page sis HON T W ODONNELL PASSES AWAY SUNDAY EVENING from page one erict uintah and duchesne duches ne counties in the upper house bouse of the utah legislature the democratic party in dorsing doming his nomination at the organization of the national legislators association in denver in 1925 1926 he was chosen to tie be one of the twelve members 0 of the governing board of the newly formed organ nation which embraced in its scope of endeavor the entire united states the aim of the association includes more uniformity in legislation enacted by the legislatures of the various states the activities of mr air odonnell in his profession and in the realm of politics in no BO wise prevented his from participating actively in the up building and the permanent development of the uintah basin the homeland of his choice he was in securing the establishment of the agricultural experiment station near fort duchesne part of the extension division of the utah state agricultural college his active support was given to that unique institution the uintah basin industrial con bention ven tion the 0 of the county and e nry every phase of activity inspru 1 mental la iii achieving ach evier permanency cy 0 of the welfare of the county received his active support mr air odonnell was a member of the united spanish war veterans elks order the doctrine doo trine of good citizenship in this day and age recognizes as a paramount factor the slogan of the greatest rea Aest good for the greatest number and acknowledging the force expressed in so few words mr ODon nelIs nells activities were guided by the precept and he consistently declined to limit his hia work exclusively ito do the legal profession mr odonnell ia survived by his widow and an adopted daughter ruth eleven years of age by two brothers one of whom john was at his bedside when he died two sisters s Is both nuns one of whom is the mother 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