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Salt Lake City, Utah
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A letter received Tuesday from Chester Lyman, former Duchesne mayor announced the death of his brother, Claude Ernest Lyman, 68 in Portland, Oregon last week. Funeral services were held in Portland at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 2, 1958.

A pioneer of the Uintah Basin, Mr. Lyman was born in Price in 1890 a son of Ira D. and Elizabeth Ann Rowley Lyman. He was a grandson of Amasa Mason Lyman, one of the early apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Both the Lyman and Rowley families were early Utah pioneers coming here in 1847 with the first group of Mormons to enter the valleys of the mountains.

Mr. Lyman moved with his parents to Soldier Station, one of the station where horses were exchanged on the passenger and mail route from Price to Fort Duchesne, which was operated by horse-drawn stages. The family moved to Vernal in 1900, when the Reservation was opened to white settlement in 1905 the Lyman’s were among those who moved here to settle the area.

In 1952 Mr. Lyman moved his family to Cascade, Oregon where he was employed on the Bonneville Dam. He later moved to Portland World War II he was employed by Northwest Tube and Metal Factories. For the past eight years his employment has been with the Peerless Trailer and Truck Association.

Mr. Lyman is survived by his widow, Lucy B. Young Lyman, Portland, two sisters and a brother, Mable O. Fallon, Gunnison, Colo.; Mrs. Edna C. Smith, Corvallis, Oregon; and brother, Chester Lyman, Duchesne.

Services were held in the Ross Hollywood funeral chapel in North East Portland, with burial in the Riverview Abby Mausoleum in Portland.

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