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RANCHER DIESAS RESULT OFOCTOBER CRASHJ. K. Spiers’ Death Boosts County Traffic Toll To Ten for Yeartm----W.SXwS*•IIIillThe death of John K. Spiers, 80, of 2465 Monroe, Sunday morning, from complications arising from injuries suffered in a traffic collision October 24, swells the state traffic toll to 137 deaths and the county to ten,M. Spiers, veteran sheepgrow-er of the in ter mountain region and a former director of two Ogden hanks, suffered a hip fracture when the light truck he was driving collided with an automobile driven by Marion G. Perry, 51, Deweyville, at the Y” junction south of Utah Hot Springs. He had been in a local hospital since the accident.Even at the age of 80, Mr. Spiers had retained his ability to actively conduct his ranch and livestock operations. He had been a prominent figure in the history of iivestock interests in the intermountain area and had been director of the old First National bank and Ogden Stake bank of Ogden. He was a member of the L. D. S. church.Mr. Spiers was bom October 29, 1859, in Lehi, a son of John and Mary Ann Winfield Spiers. Ogden had been his home since he was a young man.He is survived by his widow, the former Victorine Dix; the following sons and daughters: Edwin Spiers of Logan; Basil, John E., and George Albert Spiers of Wilson lane; Stanely Spiers of Ogden; Mrs. Austin T. Wintle and Mrs. Florence Morrison of Ogden and Mrs. George W. Wilson of Logan; 35 grandchildren and 25 greatgrandchildren.Funeral services will be held Thursday at two p. m. at the L. D. S. Twelfth ward chapel eonduct-er by Bishop A. Walter Stevenson. Friends may call at Larkin Sons’ drawing room Tuesday evening, Wednesday and also Thursday until one p. m. Interment will be in Ogden city cemetery.ntintta
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Ogden Standard Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Mon, Nov 13, 1939
Page 8
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