Ellis Clark Ivory, 68, 3413 Honeycut Road, one of the founders of Bloomington Ranches Country Club residential resort near St. George, died Oct. 27, 1973, in a Salt Lake City hospital of natural causes.
Mr. Ivory was one of the original founders of Terracor.
He was general contractor in Sanpete County. Ivory Builders Supply, which later moved to Salt Lake City. In 1950 his construction business built many buildings at Dugway and the Ogden Arsenal.
Mr. Ivory was a general contractor untnil 1953 and began his real estate business. He formed his own company in 1964, the Ivory Real Estate and in 1968 moved to St. George as the man on the site who founded and bought the Bloomington project.
He was presently serving in the branch presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the Wasatch Villia Convelascent Nursing Home Branch.
Mr. Ivory served as one of the presidents of the seventies quorum of the Valley View Stake.
A native of Fountain Green, Sanpete County, he was born Aug. 9, 1905, to George Washington and Mercie Collard Ivory. He married Mary Erma Nielsen on Feb 23, 1926 at Nephi. The marriage was solemnized in the Manti Temple on Nov. 24, 1926. She died Jan. 20, 1971.
Survivors include two sons and two daughters, George K. Ivory, Stansbury Park; Ellis Reed Ivory, and Miss Mary Ivory, both Salt Lake City; Mrs. Dean (Vonda) Larson, Bloomington; 16 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Jack (Donna) McDonald, Irvine, Calif.
Funeral Services will be held Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Valley View Fourth Ward chapel. 2125 Evergreen Ave. Friends call at 260 E. South Temple on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m., and Tuesday at the capel 11:30 a.m. until services. Graveside services will be Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Moroni Cemetery.
The family suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society.