DAVID MATHEW HILL
Funeral Wednesday For David M. Hill
Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Malad LDS Stake Chapel for David Mathew Hill, 55, who died Saturday evening in a Salt Lake City hospital of a heart attack following surgery.
Bishop Conrad C. Alder conducted the service. Prayer at the funeral home was offered by Charles D. Buehler; invocation at the chapel, by Griffith L. Jenkins, and the benediction, by Dee E. Williams. Speakers were Bishop Alder, who read the obituary; William H. Rutter and Bishop G. Howard Neal. Musical numbers were vocal solos, Jerkin L. Palmer and Helen E. Jones; violin selection, Fern Willie, with vocal obligato, Norma Gleed, and Piano accompaniment, Pauline Buehler. Accompanists were Cherrel Budge and Emma S. Ward, who also played the prelude and postlude.
Dedicatory prayer at the Malad City Cemetery was offered by Arnold Wursten.
Flowers were arranged by members of the First Ward Relief Society and relatives. Members of the First Quorum of Elders acted as honorary casket bearers; bearers were Jay Burrie, Glen B. Williams, Ralph Facer, Bud Waldron, Lyle Hess, Dan C. Williams, Matt Hill and John C. Hill.
Burial was directed by Benson Funeral Home.
Mr. Hill was born at St. John to John and Mary Jane Williams Hill on May 14, 1910.
Mr. Hill received his early education in country schools and was graduated from Malad high school. A farmer and stockman, he operated ranches at Daniels and Samaria.
On June 30, 1942, he married Rosa Karine Wursten in the Logan LDS Temple. Five children have been born to them: Rosemary, a senior education student at Brigham Young University, Provo; David Steven, who will continue his labors in the LDS mission at Apeldoorn, Holland; Ranae, Eileen and Elvin John, who are at home.
A member of the Elders Quorum, he also served as first and second councilors in the MIA; was a ward teacher here and in the Daniels branch where he was also clerk, and home missionary. A long-time resident of Daniels, Mr. Hill worked to get electricity for that section; was constable until the district was dissolved, and for several years acted as part-time mail carrier, meeting the regular mailman at the dam with a team of horses when snow prohibited making the regular rounds.
He was a member of Oneida Rod and Gun Club, Eagles, Farmers Union and Idaho Cattlemen’s Association.
Mr. Hill was invited by the US Department of State in 1962 to make a tour of farm areas behind the Iron Curtain in the People-to-people program.
Besides his wife and children, Dave is survived by his mother; a brother, John; two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Cowley, Malad, and Mrs. Elvin J. (Mae) Cutler, Preston