FUNERAL SERVICES FOR LEVI BODILY HELD AT GUSHER

Funeral services for Levi Bodily were conducted Monday at 11:00 o clock at the Gusher LDS Ward Chapel by President Ray E. Dillman of Roosevelt sang "I Need Thee Every Hour", "Sometime, Somewhere We'll Understand" and "Oh, My Father." Addresses were given by President Dillman, Dan Mitchell, Joseph Lambert and John E. Wiscombe. A solo, "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" was sung by Mr.Wiscombe and prayers were offered by Russell Todd and J. C. Hacking. Burial was in the Maeser Cemetery with C. W. Bodily dedicating the grave.

Levi Bodily, 71, for 62 years a resident of Uintah Basin, was found dead in the corral of his brother, Bishop C. W. Bodily of Gusher, Friday at 3 p.m. of a probable heart attack. Mr. Bodily had been living at the home of his brother for several years.

Mr. Bodily was born in Kaysville, Utah November 28, 1879, a son of Robert and Harriet Ann Roberts Bodily. Coming to Ashley Valley with his parents when he was nine years old he attended the public schools in the old Mill LDS Ward now Maeser.

In 1897 Mr. Bodily married Celia Thompson in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. About three years later Mrs. Bodily died and Mr. Bodily never remarried.

An active member of the LDS Church he was a high priest at the time of his death. He had served as a teacher in Sunday School and MIA of his ward.

He had been actively engaged in the livestock business of Ashley Valley and other communities in the Uintah Basin.

Surviving is one son Dallas Bodily of Vernal, three brothers, grandchildren, his aged father, and four sisters, Joseph H. Bodliy, Robert Bodily, 95, of St. George, Christopher Bodily of San Diego, California;

Burial was made at the Maeser Fairview Cemetery.

-Vernal Express, December 18, 1941, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Levi Robert Bodily

Levi Robert Bodily is the son of Harriet Ann Roberts and Robert Bodily.

Levi was just a young boy but each year his father would plow the ground. After putting in crops, his father would go after freight and Levi would attend the crops. It was astonishing how well Levi succeeded for a small boy of his age for it was sure a hard job to control the water.

Levi was also very good ar handling sheep. Levi's father started raising sheep and got a nice little bunch of 500. His father sold them to a man in exchange for hay and never got all of the hay. After awhile he got a few more sheep and kept adding a few more until he got another start. At first he would let someone take them with theirs and herd them and sometimes they would come out with barely the number they started with in the spring. It took a long time to get ahead. Levi was working at Rock Springs, Wyoming and he would send money to help things along, After a while he came home and took care of the sheep and they soon began to increase faster.

He married Cecilia Mary Thompson November 24,1894.

-from his father's Robert Bodily Jr. Autobiography