Alvin N. Despain
SAFFORD--Services for Alvin N. Despain, 77, former local dairy farmer and operator of the power plant for Safford Municipal Utilities until his retirement, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Safford Ward Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Burial will be in Thatcher Cemetery.
Mr. DeSpain died Saturday in the Veterans Hospital at Tucson. He was born in Thatcher, lived for a time in Utah and returned here in 1919 after service in World War I. He was a former High Priest Quorum leader, home teacher and Mutual Improvement Association worker in the LDS Church.
Survivors include his wife, Harriet, four sons, Charles of Bisbee, Dean and David, both of Safford and Gerald of Castle Rock, Colorado; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Nottingham and Mrs. Mary Watson, borh of Mesa; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Plet Avery of Greybull, Wyoming; Mrs. Carol McCarthy of Texas; Mrs. Margaret Russell of Manti, Utahl Mrs. Orvella Bockholt of Northridge, California and Mrs. Ruth Merkley of Salt Lake City and three brothers and three sisters, ou of state.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Caldwell Chapel and from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. tomorrow at the ward.
-The Arizona Republic, July 6, 1970, transcribed by Rhomda Holton
Alvin Neri Despain was born to Luella Miranda Butler and David Alvin Despain.
Alvin married Margaret Grace Layton on December 17, 1919 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in the V.A. Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.
SAFFORD--Services for Alvin N. Despain, 77, former local dairy farmer and operator of the power plant for Safford Municipal Utilities until his retirement, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Safford Ward Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Burial will be in Thatcher Cemetery.
Mr. DeSpain died Saturday in the Veterans Hospital at Tucson. He was born in Thatcher, lived for a time in Utah and returned here in 1919 after service in World War I. He was a former High Priest Quorum leader, home teacher and Mutual Improvement Association worker in the LDS Church.
Survivors include his wife, Harriet, four sons, Charles of Bisbee, Dean and David, both of Safford and Gerald of Castle Rock, Colorado; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Nottingham and Mrs. Mary Watson, borh of Mesa; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Plet Avery of Greybull, Wyoming; Mrs. Carol McCarthy of Texas; Mrs. Margaret Russell of Manti, Utahl Mrs. Orvella Bockholt of Northridge, California and Mrs. Ruth Merkley of Salt Lake City and three brothers and three sisters, ou of state.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Caldwell Chapel and from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. tomorrow at the ward.
-The Arizona Republic, July 6, 1970, transcribed by Rhomda Holton
Alvin Neri Despain was born to Luella Miranda Butler and David Alvin Despain.
Alvin married Margaret Grace Layton on December 17, 1919 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in the V.A. Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.
Alvin N. Despain
SAFFORD--Services for Alvin N. Despain, 77, former local dairy farmer and operator of the power plant for Safford Municipal Utilities until his retirement, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Safford Ward Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Burial will be in Thatcher Cemetery.
Mr. DeSpain died Saturday in the Veterans Hospital at Tucson. He was born in Thatcher, lived for a time in Utah and returned here in 1919 after service in World War I. He was a former High Priest Quorum leader, home teacher and Mutual Improvement Association worker in the LDS Church.
Survivors include his wife, Harriet, four sons, Charles of Bisbee, Dean and David, both of Safford and Gerald of Castle Rock, Colorado; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Nottingham and Mrs. Mary Watson, borh of Mesa; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Plet Avery of Greybull, Wyoming; Mrs. Carol McCarthy of Texas; Mrs. Margaret Russell of Manti, Utahl Mrs. Orvella Bockholt of Northridge, California and Mrs. Ruth Merkley of Salt Lake City and three brothers and three sisters, ou of state.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Caldwell Chapel and from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. tomorrow at the ward.
-The Arizona Republic, July 6, 1970, transcribed by Rhomda Holton
Alvin Neri Despain was born to Luella Miranda Butler and David Alvin Despain.
Alvin married Margaret Grace Layton on December 17, 1919 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in the V.A. Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.
SAFFORD--Services for Alvin N. Despain, 77, former local dairy farmer and operator of the power plant for Safford Municipal Utilities until his retirement, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Safford Ward Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Burial will be in Thatcher Cemetery.
Mr. DeSpain died Saturday in the Veterans Hospital at Tucson. He was born in Thatcher, lived for a time in Utah and returned here in 1919 after service in World War I. He was a former High Priest Quorum leader, home teacher and Mutual Improvement Association worker in the LDS Church.
Survivors include his wife, Harriet, four sons, Charles of Bisbee, Dean and David, both of Safford and Gerald of Castle Rock, Colorado; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Nottingham and Mrs. Mary Watson, borh of Mesa; five stepdaughters, Mrs. Plet Avery of Greybull, Wyoming; Mrs. Carol McCarthy of Texas; Mrs. Margaret Russell of Manti, Utahl Mrs. Orvella Bockholt of Northridge, California and Mrs. Ruth Merkley of Salt Lake City and three brothers and three sisters, ou of state.
Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Caldwell Chapel and from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. tomorrow at the ward.
-The Arizona Republic, July 6, 1970, transcribed by Rhomda Holton
Alvin Neri Despain was born to Luella Miranda Butler and David Alvin Despain.
Alvin married Margaret Grace Layton on December 17, 1919 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in the V.A. Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.
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