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Walton Edwin Bodily, 18881975 (aged 87 years)

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Name
Walton Edwin /Bodily/
Given names
Walton Edwin
Surname
Bodily
Family with Olive Marie Merkley
himself
Walton Edwin Bodily 1888-1975.jpg
18881975
Birth: 11 January 1888Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 30 December 1975Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
wife
Olive Marie Merkley 1901-1930.jpg
19011930
Birth: 18 June 1901 41 40 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 12 November 1930Provo, Utah, USA
Marriage Marriage31 March 1920Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
21 months
daughter
1921
Birth: 1921 32 19 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death:
22 months
son
Lorenza Edwin Bodily 1922-1944.jpg
19221944
Birth: 16 October 1922 34 21 Moffit, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 25 October 1944Municipality of Leyte, Leyte (Province), Eastern Visayas, Philippines
21 months
son
Melvin Robert Bodily 1924-2010.jpg
19242010
Birth: 24 June 1924 36 23 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 1 October 2010Bountiful, Davis, Utah, USA
14 months
daughter
19252014
Birth: 20 August 1925 37 24 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 6 August 2014Bountiful, Davis, Utah, USA
2 years
son
19272016
Birth: 28 July 1927 39 26 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
Death: 24 July 2016Copperton, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
19 months
son
1929
Birth: 14 February 1929 41 27 Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA
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Author of last change: Danny
Note

WALTON E. BODILY SUCCUMBS IN VERNAL HOSPITAL

Walton Edwin Bodily was cited at funeral services Friday at 11 a.m. in the Maeser First Ward. Councilor John Evans Jones officiated.

Family prayer was given by Thoral A. Bodily. Theresa Anderson played the prelude and postlude music. Invocation was given by Harold R. Bodily.

Councilor Jones offered the opening remarks. The opening song, "Silver Haired Daddy of Mine," sung by Wayne Hall, who accompanied himself on the guitar. The first speaker was Dan W. Turner, followed by a piano solo, "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Oh My Father", by Dale W. Bodily. The concluding speaker was Lyle Glines with the closing song, "Home on the Range," sung by Mr. Hall. Benediction was by Floyd W. Bodily.

Melvin R. Bodily dedicated the grave in the Maeser Cemetery. Pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased, Robert and Earl Morrison, Allen and Thoral Bodily, Dirk and Gary Bodily, Shane Evans and Eldon Anderson. Honorary pallbearers were the High Priest Quorum. The Maeser Ward Relief Society was in charge of flowers.

Mr. Bodily, who died in the Uintah County Hospital of a heart attack December 30, was born January 11, 1888 in Vernal. He was the son of Robert Bodily and Harriet Ann Roberts. He married Olive Marie Merkley March 31, 1920 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died November 12, 1930. He married Zelpha May Allen May 18, 1931 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He was a farmer and custodian for the Uintah County School District and Maeser Ward LDS Church. He served an LDS mission to England from 1915 to 1919, was instructor for the High Priest group for 16 years, served three stake missions, served in the bishopric for 19 years in Maeser Ward and was a teacher in Sunday School.

Survivors are his widow, Vernal; five sons, five daughters, Melvin R., Bountiful; Harold R., West Covina, California; Gordon D., Copperton, Utah; Floyd W. and Thoral W., both of Vernal; Mrs Vernon (Lucile) Anderson, McCammon, Idaho; Mrs Charles (Anna) Morrison, Vernal; Mrs. Forrest (Luella) Evans, Murray, Utah; Mrs. Ward (Delila) Goodrich, Rock Springs, Wyoming; Mrs. David (Deloris) Hanson, Midvale, Utah; 58 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Isabelle Hacking, Vernal; and Mrs. Roy (Sylvia) Richens, Mesa, Arizona.

There were over 80 family members from out of town who attended the services addition to friends.

-Vernal Express, January 1976

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