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Alfred Eugene Gauchat

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Alfred Eugene Gauchat

Birth
Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, USA
Death
21 May 1939 (aged 57)
Annabella, Sevier County, Utah, USA
Burial
Annabella, Sevier County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
32_2_N.d
Memorial ID
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Alfred E. Gauchat, 57, a well know resident of Annabella, died at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning after a brief illness. he had appeared to be as well as usual Saturday, but suffered a stroke early that evening.
Born March 19, 1882, at Marysvale, a son of Philip L. and Lillian Abagail Gardner Gauchat, he had moved with his parents to Annabella when he was five years of age and had continued to make it his home. He married Florence Wright on July 23, 1902.
Mr. Gauchat engaged in farming and for years had been active in church and civic affairs.
At the time of his death he was a member of the Annabella ward bishopric. He had served as a member of the South Sevier stake high council, president of the Seventies quorum of the stake and in the Annabella ward he had been president of the Y.M.M.I.A., superintendent of the Sunday school, president of the ward genealogical society, and an active temple worker.
Civic minded, he had served as a member of the town board and as president of the board for two terms, as a Democratic precinct chairman, a director of the Sevier County Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, a member of canal company boards, and president of the Farm bureau at Annabella.
Above all Mr. Gauchat was a friend and was generally known as Fred.
Surviving are his widow; four daughters, Mrs. C. L. Parks of Richfield, Mrs. Renaldo Riddle of Antimony, Mrs. J. M. Chavis of Richfield and Mrs. Ray Robinson of Monroe; eight grandchildren; one borther, Paul Gauchat of Small, Ida., and two sisters, Mrs. Lee Fairbanks of Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Alice Ballantyne of Santa Monica, Calif.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Annabella ward chapel. Bishop Lloyd N. Gleave presided at the services. Speakers were P. L. Fillmore, H. Clynn Thurston, President H. Roland Tietjen of the South Sevier stake and Bishop Gleave. A tribute was written by Miss Chloe Savage was read by Mrs. Bryon Hanchett.
The ward choir, directed by Ammon Roberts, with Mrs. LeRoy Gleave as accompanist, sang "Though Deepening Trials" and "I Know My Heavenly Father Knows." Vocal solos were "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine," by H. Clynn Thurston, and "Face to Face," by Ammon Roberts. The invocation was by James R. Ware of Monroe; the benediction by Ivan Foisy of Richfield. Herbert F. Roberts dedicated the grave, interment being in the Annabella cemetery.
Pallbearers were Bliss and Maurice Daniels, J. M. Chavis, Ray Robinson, Renaldo Riddle and C. L. Parks. Relief society members carried the floral tributes.
High priests of the stake attended the services as a group.
Alfred E. Gauchat, 57, a well know resident of Annabella, died at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning after a brief illness. he had appeared to be as well as usual Saturday, but suffered a stroke early that evening.
Born March 19, 1882, at Marysvale, a son of Philip L. and Lillian Abagail Gardner Gauchat, he had moved with his parents to Annabella when he was five years of age and had continued to make it his home. He married Florence Wright on July 23, 1902.
Mr. Gauchat engaged in farming and for years had been active in church and civic affairs.
At the time of his death he was a member of the Annabella ward bishopric. He had served as a member of the South Sevier stake high council, president of the Seventies quorum of the stake and in the Annabella ward he had been president of the Y.M.M.I.A., superintendent of the Sunday school, president of the ward genealogical society, and an active temple worker.
Civic minded, he had served as a member of the town board and as president of the board for two terms, as a Democratic precinct chairman, a director of the Sevier County Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, a member of canal company boards, and president of the Farm bureau at Annabella.
Above all Mr. Gauchat was a friend and was generally known as Fred.
Surviving are his widow; four daughters, Mrs. C. L. Parks of Richfield, Mrs. Renaldo Riddle of Antimony, Mrs. J. M. Chavis of Richfield and Mrs. Ray Robinson of Monroe; eight grandchildren; one borther, Paul Gauchat of Small, Ida., and two sisters, Mrs. Lee Fairbanks of Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Alice Ballantyne of Santa Monica, Calif.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Annabella ward chapel. Bishop Lloyd N. Gleave presided at the services. Speakers were P. L. Fillmore, H. Clynn Thurston, President H. Roland Tietjen of the South Sevier stake and Bishop Gleave. A tribute was written by Miss Chloe Savage was read by Mrs. Bryon Hanchett.
The ward choir, directed by Ammon Roberts, with Mrs. LeRoy Gleave as accompanist, sang "Though Deepening Trials" and "I Know My Heavenly Father Knows." Vocal solos were "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine," by H. Clynn Thurston, and "Face to Face," by Ammon Roberts. The invocation was by James R. Ware of Monroe; the benediction by Ivan Foisy of Richfield. Herbert F. Roberts dedicated the grave, interment being in the Annabella cemetery.
Pallbearers were Bliss and Maurice Daniels, J. M. Chavis, Ray Robinson, Renaldo Riddle and C. L. Parks. Relief society members carried the floral tributes.
High priests of the stake attended the services as a group.


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