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George Josiah Jarvis

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George Josiah Jarvis

Birth
Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
Death
4 Jan 1974 (aged 92)
Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Plot
Block 650, Lot 1, Grave 1
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MESA - Services for George J. Jarvis, 92, a native of Snowflake, will be at noon Monday in the 11th Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 316 S. Lesueur. Burial will be in the Mesa City Cemetery.

Mr. Jarvis of 517 E. Second Ave., died Friday in Golden Mesa Nursing Home, where he had been for several months.

He had lived in Sonora, Mexico as a young man, but returned to Snowflake at the turn of the century and moved to Mesa 33 years ago.

Mr. Jarvis, an ordained LDS temple worker, was a former bishop and had served three missions for the church.

Survivors include five sons: Elmer of Cedar City, Utah, James of Downing, California, Anthony of Tempe, Warren of Yuma and Andrew of Panorama City, California; five daughters, Mrs. Millie E. Titus of Anaheim, California, and Mrs. Neola Millett, Mrs. Folvia Porter, Mrs. Birdie Tanner and Mrs. Annie Osborn of Mesa; seven brothers, Lehi of Mesa and the others three sisters out of state; 56 grandchildren; and 124 great-grandchildren. One brother, Lehi, lives in Mesa.

Friends may call from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today in Meldrum Mortuary, 52 N. Masdonald.

Arizona Republic, January 6, 1974

George Josiah Jarvis was born to Frances (Franny) Godfrey DeFrietz and Samuel Walter Jarvis. George Josiah married Mary Ellen Lake on August 15, 1903 in Colonia Juarez, Mexico. They had thirteen children.

MESA - Services for George J. Jarvis, 92, a native of Snowflake, will be at noon Monday in the 11th Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 316 S. Lesueur. Burial will be in the Mesa City Cemetery.

Mr. Jarvis of 517 E. Second Ave., died Friday in Golden Mesa Nursing Home, where he had been for several months.

He had lived in Sonora, Mexico as a young man, but returned to Snowflake at the turn of the century and moved to Mesa 33 years ago.

Mr. Jarvis, an ordained LDS temple worker, was a former bishop and had served three missions for the church.

Survivors include five sons: Elmer of Cedar City, Utah, James of Downing, California, Anthony of Tempe, Warren of Yuma and Andrew of Panorama City, California; five daughters, Mrs. Millie E. Titus of Anaheim, California, and Mrs. Neola Millett, Mrs. Folvia Porter, Mrs. Birdie Tanner and Mrs. Annie Osborn of Mesa; seven brothers, Lehi of Mesa and the others three sisters out of state; 56 grandchildren; and 124 great-grandchildren. One brother, Lehi, lives in Mesa.

Friends may call from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today in Meldrum Mortuary, 52 N. Masdonald.

Arizona Republic, January 6, 1974

George Josiah Jarvis was born to Frances (Franny) Godfrey DeFrietz and Samuel Walter Jarvis. George Josiah married Mary Ellen Lake on August 15, 1903 in Colonia Juarez, Mexico. They had thirteen children.

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