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Show ObituariesMormon CragunPLEASANT VIEW Mormon Cragun, 74, fruit farmer of Pleasant View, died this morning in the Dee Hospital after being crushed by a tractor Saturday at his farm.An active worker in the LDS Church, Mr. Cragun served as branch president in Acequia, Idaho, for three years. He was a member of the Pleasant View Ward, was president of the 38th Quorum of Seventies for 14 years, a high priest since 1926, a Sunday School and ward teacher for 50 years and a choir and ward chorister for 40 years. From 1928 to 1929, he served a mission in California.He toured the Pacific Coast singing with the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir in 1903 and in 1905, accompanied the Ogden Tabernacle Choir as a singer to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland.Since 1921 he has worked in geneology and had traveled weekly to the Logan and Salt Lake Temples for more than 35 years. For the past 16 years he and his wife had been workers in the Salt Lake Temple.On June 26, 1901, he married Annie May Budge in the LDS Salt Lake Temple. After the marriage they moved to Acequia, Idaho, and as one of the first settlers, he reclaimed land, built houses, dug wells and worked in the construction of the Minidoka and Shoshone Dam and many large canals.He returned to Pleasant View seven years later and before the construction of Pine View Dam, had dug wells in Pleasant View and other areas in Weber County.While in Idaho, he directed the Rupert Band which gained fame in the northwest and was rated as superior when performing at the Portland Exposition.He was born Jan. 23, 1880, in North Ogden, a son of Wilford Elisha and Mary Ann Ellis Cragun. He was educated in Weber County schools, Weber Academy and Brigham Young College in Logan.Surviving are his widow, four sons and four daughters, Paul Budge Cragun, Earl Budge Cragun, Weldon Budge Cragun, Pleasant View; Lewis Budge Cragun, Ogden; Mrs. D. Sterling (Edna) Wheelwright, Millbrae, Calif.; Mrs. Earl J. (Ruth) Rhees, Mrs. Leon B. (Margaret) Jones, Mrs. Lynn R. (LouJean) Pulsipher, Pleasant View; 38 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, one brother, Edmund Cragun, Springville; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Barker, Pleasant View; Mrs. Julia Amelia Douglass, Provo; Mrs. Grace Violet Ostler and Mrs. Eva Lillian Heiner, Salt Lake City.Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the LDS Pleasant View Ward Chapel, Bishop Jay H. Rhees officiating.Friends may call at the Larkin Mortuary, 24th Street and Adams Avenue, tomorrow from 6 to 9 p. m. and at the family home Wednesday from 10 a. m. to 130 p. m. Interment will be in North Ogden Cemetery. |