Jesse Horatio Dredge (Birth 29 Mar 1873/Death 27 May 1957)

Jesse H. Dredge, Church & Civic Leader, Dies

Funeral services for Jesse Horatio Dredge, 84, former Malad mayor and patriarch of the Malad Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, will be held Friday.

Services will be conducted in the Malad Stake-Third ward building at 1 p.m. under the direction of Bishop G. Howard Neal.

Mr. Dredge died Monday morning (27 May 1957) at his home in Malad of a heart ailment. He had been active in Church and civic work during his life and sent 13 sons and daughters on missions for the LDS Church.

A member of the Malad Stake High Council, Mr. Dredge had at one time served as bishop of the Malad First Ward.

During the time he served as mayor of Malad, he worked to develop the natural resources of the county and community and was instrumental in the completion of a number of civic projects.

Livestock Grower

He was well known in the livestock business of the Mountain West. He had engaged in sheep raising since 1898.

Mr. Dredge was born March 29, 1873, in Malad, a son of Jesse Richard and Ellen Rhees Dredge. He married Eliza Rosetta in the Logan Temple. She died May 20, 1914.

He married Nellie Martha Kunz June 30, 1915, in the Logan Temple. She survives. One son, David W. Dredge, preceded his father in death.

Other Survivors
Other survivors include 13 sons and daughters: Mrs. A. R. (Ellen) Castleton, Mrs. R. A. (Hettie) Barnes, both of Salt Lake City; Mrs. W. H. (Cecilia) Rutter, Mrs. Junius (Mary) Crowther, Mrs. Rosell (Elaine) Mills, Jesse R. Dredge and Calvin C. Dredge, all of Malad; Mrs. Walter E. (Thelma) Gibbs, Portage, Utah; Mrs. Rulon (Rose) Ward, Snowville, Utah, Wilford J. Dredge, Soda Springs; Nathan E. Dredge and Mrs. Morgan (Ruth) Budge, Pocatello, and Mrs. James B. (Norma) Hill, Whittier, Calif.

Also surviving are 53 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren; one brother, Richard H. Dredge, Parma, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Harrison, Malad, and Mrs. Hettie Lusk, Sugar City.

Services Sunday For Jesse H. Dredge

Funeral servces (sp. services) for Jesse H. Dredge who died at his home May 27 (1957), were held Friday at the Malad Stake Tabernacle with Bishop G. Howard Neal officiating.

Family prayer at the home was offered by President Moyle E. Facer; invocation, President Thomas W. Richards; benediction, President S. L. Smith; dedicatory prayer, Wilford J. Dredge.

The speakers were President S. A. Hendricks, Dr. O. H. Mabey and Joseph Isaacson. The obituary was read by Bishop G. Howard Neal, there was a message from President Steven L. Richards and a favorite poem “Let This Be Heaven” by Elden Corbridge.

Musical numbers consisted of prelude and postlude, Emma S. Ward; selection, male quartet; vocal duet; Sherman and Douglas Gibbs; selection, male quartet.

Those from out of town attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thomas, Dr. D. C. Ray, H. D. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Dee V. Sharp and son Marlin, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Budge and sons Mark, Rodger, Paul, Bsp. Willard L. Allen, Mrs. Mae Smith, F. M. Ray, Mrs. Joe Dalton, Evan E. Jones, Calvin Stone, Lizzie S. Thomson, Nola S. Hensley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bolingbroke, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Price, Mrs. MayDell Wharton and David Sherman, Pocatello;

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen, Mrs. Joe Leigh, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Thomas, Mrs. Charlotte Harris, Eunice Eschler, Mrs. L. L. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Cragun, Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Cragun and Mr. Earl J. Rhees, Ogden;

Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Wilcox, Mrs. Zina Fuit, Mrs. Gwen Johnston, Clearfield, Utah; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dredge, Bountiful, Utah; Mark H. Jensen, Collinston, Ut.; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boss, Mrs. Edna Boss Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Castleton, Mrs. Merle C. Call, Garland; Mr. and Mrs. William D. Thomas, Mrs. _ Bowen, Evan Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. James Rutter, Provo;

Miss Ellen Lusk, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Facer, Mr. and Mrs. Zeniff Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Castleton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Castleton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Barnes and son. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hunsaker, Douglas, Mrs. Maurine Brooks, Mrs. Donna Maude Bauman, Mrs. Ruth Thomas Rose, Mrs. Kate Thomas Zabriskie, Neil Griffiths, Charlotte Williams, Mrs. Agnes Dansie and daughter, Joyce, Mrs. Ruth Conrad, Edna Crowther, Ririe, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Fowler, Mrs. Pearl V. Williams, Mrs. Lucille W. Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Newell Price, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Gygi, Salt Lake City.

Mrs. Mary W. Ellis, Honey ville; Mr. and Mrs. Moses Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Michaelson, Mrs. Jeanette Pulley, Mrs. Lydia Jenkins, Mr. and Ms. Jacob Kern, Mrs. Owen Anderson, Mrs. D. L. Stone, Mrs. Mary James and Mrs. David McCullough, Logan; Lloyd Hansen, Lewiston; Mrs. Varlo Price, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dredge, R. David Dredge, Roy Dredge, Joseph Dredge and Doyle Dredge, Parma, Idaho.

Mrs. Rupert Lusk, Mr. and Mrs. Alma Lusk, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Camp, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Roberts, Mr and Mrs. Horace Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Roberts, Mrs. Minnie M. Lusk, Keith Lusk, Sugar City; Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Laird, Duboise. Mrs. Maude Dredge and Jess Roberts, Brigham City; Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rytting, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Hupp, Tremonton.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Max Call and family, Mrs. Pollie Fitch, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Ward and son, Gordon, and Mrs. Reese Jones, Idaho Falls.

Mr. and Mrs. __ Lund and daughter Karen, Rexburg, Idaho; Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Howard, Cody, Wyoming; Mr. and Mrs. Heber Evans, Mrs. Elda Budge, San Diego, Calif.

Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Ward and family, Mr. and Mrs. DeLamar Cutler, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Eleason (sp. Eliason) Jr., and daughter Pat, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Nelson and daughter Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Dan A. Hickman, Mrs. Dora Cutler, Mrs. Minah Rose, Snowville, Utah.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmon Apgood, Mr. Ben Price, Blackfoot; Mr. and Mrs. Wilford J. Dredge and family and Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Horsley, Soda Springs, Idaho.

Mr. and Mrs. Seth Kunz, Mrs. Dorothy Mariano, Mrs. Venita Paget, Lynn Thomas, Horatio Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Smith Knuz (sp. Kunz?), Alma Knuz (Kunz), George Knuz (Kunz), Roger Lee Knuz (Kunz), Able Knuz (Kunz) and Mr. and Mrs. Parley Knuz (Kunz), Montpelier.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darley, Hyrum, Utah; J. F. Torgensen, Soda Springs; Mrs. Marie Petty, Swan Lake, Idaho; Mrs. Edith Doutre, Preston; Leon Evans, Boise, Mrs. Mary W. Selis, Honeyville, Utah.