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Here is a death notice published in the San Juan Record on Ocotber 9, 1930

L.B. REDD DIES IN MOAB HOSPITAL
Prominent San Juan County Business Man Succumbs to Heart Trouble After Short Illness.

Although it was not altogether unlooked for, the county was shocked when word came up from Moab that L.B. Redd, cashier of the State Bank of San Juan, had died in the hospital there this morning at 1 o'clock.
Mr. Redd was taken suddenly ill with a heart attack some two weeks ago, and was rushed to the hospital here he could receive the best of medical attention and expert care. he had always been in robust health prior to the attack, it coming with a shock not only to him but to all that knew him. Little hope was help out for his recovery from the start, but everyone hoped for the best until announcement was made that the fight for life had been a losing one.
The body will be embalmed and brought back to Blanding for interment, the funeral to take place as soon as relatives can be notified and heard from, it not being probable that it will take place until Sunday next.
This is the second death in the family within the past two years that first being that of Cashier of the San Juan State Bank L. Hardy Redd, whose place L.B. took on Hardy's death.
The loss will be heavily felt in financial circles of the county, he being identified with many other landed and livestock interests besides the bank.
A full account of the life of the deceased will appera in the next issue of the Record.


Published in the San Juan Record on October 16, 1930
L.B. REDD FUNERAL AN IMPRESSIVE AFFAIR
Funeral services for L.B. Redd were held in the Blanding Ward Chapel Saturday, October 11, at 2 p.m. Bp. H.D. Bayles presiding. The speakers were: Kumen Jones, Albert R. Lyman, Pres L.K. Jones, and Pres. Wayne H Redd, who spoke words of comfort and consolation to the sorrowing family, also spoke of the exemplary life he had lived.
Appropriate Music was furnished by the choir and Mrs. Margaret Perkins and Mrs. Lucy B. Adams sang "There is Life Beyond the Grave" and J Ernest Adams sang "My Faith in Thee."
There were four hundred people present at the funeral, every town in the county being well represented there were between fifty and sixty cars went to the cemetery where the services were completed.
The pall bearers were his brothers: Pres. W.H. Redd, J.M. Redd, Parley Redd, J. Wiley Redd and Ancil R. Redd.
The many beautiful flowers sent by relatives and friends spoke of the love and respect they had for him.
He is survived by his wife and the following children; L. Burton Jr, who is laboring as a missionary in Vermont, J. De mar, Kermit, Keith, Francell, Lloyd Hugh and Jewell, also by six brothers and six sisters.
Lemuel Burton Redd was born Sept. 17th, 1876 in Harmony, Washington country, Utah, the son of Lemuel Hardison and Louisa Chamberlain Redd. The story of the family life here was the usual struggle to wrest a living from the soil and build up a home in the new country.
In 1889 the Family moved to Bluff, Utah but remained there only two years, moving to Old Mexico in the spring of 1891. Life here was no easier then in the old home in Burt early learned the lessons in the "university of Hard Knocks" and as one of the brothers said "he became the mainstay of th family."
in 1908 Burt filled a mission for the church in Mexico. Laboring in Mexico City and Vicinity While there his mother died. But he continued his work until about a year later when his father met with an accident that disabled him and Burt was released. he engaged in mercantile business in Dublan and also in Douglas, Ariz.
June 12th, 1911 he was married to Irene Hatch in salt Lake Temple and a year later moved to Blanding, where he has resided ever sine. since coming to San Juan, L.B. Redd has been closely connected with financial civic and religious activities here.
During the winter of 1928-1929 he was in Texas as an L.D.S. missionary. his death came as a shock to his many friends and relatives ans he had been apparently in the best of health. L.B. Redd was a student and well educated man in spite of the fact that circumstances had prevented him from attending the higher institutions of learning. His hobby was the study archaeology and he had accumulated a valuable among of knowledge and literature on the relics and history of the earlier races who had inhabited Old Mexico, Central and South America.
First, last and always, L.B. Redd was a Latter Day Saint, standing firm for what he thought was right.
"Men are of two kinds and he was of the kind I'd like to be. If ever a man on earth was free and independent it was he. No broken pledge lost his respect, he met all men with head erect, And when he passed I think there went a soul to yonder firmament so White so Splendid and so fine it came almost to God's design."