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John Miles Gurr

25 Oct 1876 – 4 Feb 1937

Birth25 Oct 1876
Death4 Feb 1937
CemeteryRichfield City Cemetery
Richfield , Sevier County , Utah , USA
Added byVirginia Denison on 21 Mar 2015
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Funeral Held Here Sunday for John M. Gurr Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the First ward chapel for John Miles Gurr, 60, who died Thursday at 3:15 a. m. in the local hospital, where he underwent an operation January 19. Bishop J. F. Ogden presided at the services. Speakers were Dr. T. R. Gledhill of the stake presidency and Patriarch H. J. Hansen. The ward choir, directed by Mrs. Vern Blomquist, sang two numbers. "Face to Face" was sung as a duet by Mrs. A W. Young and Miss Reba Young. Mrs. Blomquist sang, "Going Home." The invocation was by Owen M. Ogden; the benediction by Joseph Ogden. Bishop Enoch R. Larsen dedicated the grave, interment being in the city cemetery Pallbearers were members of the high priests quorum to which Mr. Gurr belonged. Relief society members carried the flowers. Mr. Gurr was born October 25, 1876, at Richfield, a son of Reuben and Elzadia Emiline Miles Gurr, Richfield pioneers. Unable to attend school, he started to work at the age of nine years, earning 15 cents a day. When he was 25 years of age he went to Canada, but returned to the United States a year later. He married Alice Rowley February 27, 1903, in Salt Lake City. After their marriage they went to Mexico where Mrs. Gurr's family lived, They stayed there nine years. In July 1903, when Mexican rebels began to molest the white people. Mr. Gurr took his wife and children to the station and sent them on the train out of the trouble zone and into the United States. Of their belongings they were able to take with them only a roll of bedding and a trunk. On August 2, Mr. Gurr and the other men who had sent their families out of the country, escaped during the night through the mountains on horse back. They had to take a band of rebel prisoners with them to the borderline before they could make their escape. Mr. Gurr joined his wife and children three weeks later. The U. S. government gave free tickets to the refugees, permitting them to go by train to any part of the United States they chose. Mr. Gurr and his family went to Idaho Falls, Idaho. They spent a few years in Utah and Idaho, taking their residence up permanently in Utah in 1923. They lived at Orem until November, 1927, when they moved to Richfield. Mr. Gurr engaged in farming and freighting. Mr. Gurr was a faithful member of the L. D. S. church and served diligently in whatever capacity he was called to serve. He is survived by his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Lucy Rasmussem of Provo, Mrs. Elma Nielson of Provo, Alice and Zella Gurr, Richfield; three sons, Miles E. Gurr, Delbert L. Gurr and Glen Gurr, all of Richfield; 11 grandchildren, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Addie Edwards, Thomas Gurr, Wallace Gurr, Mrs. Nellie Martineau, Miss Maud Rowley, all of Provo; Wilford Gurr, Nevada, Mrs. B. A. Wilson, Eureka, and Mrs. Mary Palmer, Logan. Published in the Richfield Reaper | 1937-02-11

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