Leo Mish Camp (Birth – 6 May 1882)

Funeral services will be held in Malad City, Idaho., for Leo M. Camp, 71, the father of Irving Camp, a staff photographer for The Sacramento Bee.

Camp suffered a heart attack and died while leading an Oneida County (Idaho) Fourth of July celebration parade as grand marshal. He was riding a horse backward, dressed in full Indian regalia, when he slumped forward and fell from the mount. (4th of July 1953)

Born in Utah, he was a pioneer homesteader in Oneida County, settling there with a Mormon colony. He was considered an authority on Indian lore of the tribes of the region and spoke several dialects. Camp served as technical adviser on Indian matters for several Hollywood movie productions on location in that area.

A graduate of the University of Utah, he had held the post of principal of several Idaho schools. In the 1920s he owned a wild West show which toured the rodeo circuit of several Western states. He also promoted celebrations on the Mormon Pioneer Day, July 24th, in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

Active in civic affairs and politics, Camp long was a personal friend of the late Senator William E. Borah. When grazing rights were more plentiful he ran herds of sheep and cattle and once was arbiter during a feud between cattle and sheep raisers. For the last 15 years he owned and operated a hide and fur business in Malad City.

Also surviving are his sons, Vern of Redding, Shasta County; Wilson of San Francisco, Marne of New York City, Richard of Bountiful, Utah, and daughters, Mrs. Floyd Hill and Mrs. Monte Thomas, both of Malad City.

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD TUESDAY FOR L. M. CAMP
Funeral services for Leo Mish Camp, 71, well known Malad Valley resident, were conducted at 1 p.m., Tuesday, in the St. John Chapel. Bishop Melvin Yearsley was in charge.

Mr. Camp died of a heart attack Saturday (4 July 1953) while participating in the July 4th parade at Malad Saturday.

Bishop Yearsley gave the invocation, obituary and remarks; prayer at the funeral home was offered by Arch Harris; S. A. Hendricks was the speaker, and the musical numbers were a vocal solo, Keith Evans accompanied by Mrs. Evans; vocal solo, Louis Yearsley; benediction, Weldon Jensen. Cherrel Jensen played the prelude and postlude music and was accompanist. The dedicatory prayer at the cemetery was offered by William P. Camp Jr.

He was born May 6, 1882 at Walsburg, Utah, a son of Richard Cecil Camp and Jane Glenn Camp. He was reared and educated at Vernal, Utah and also attended Brigham Young University at Provo and Greeley State College in Colorado. Mr. Camp’s first wife, Eunice Dillie, died May 30, 1926. He was later married to Elvareen Camp who died Dec. 18, 1941. (*11 Dec 1940)

A member of the L.D.S. Church, Mr. Camp was a well-known rancher and trader, active in business throughout southern Idaho. For the past 43 years he had resided in Malad Valley and previous………
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