Parents: Kelsey and Ann Muir Bird
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Salina second ward chapel for Kelsey Walter Bird, 71 who died at this home in Salina Monday.
He was born in mendon, Cache County, on March 10, 1868, a son of Kelsey and Anne Muir Bird. He moved to Sevier County at the age of eight years and had spent the rest of his life in the county, most of the time at Salina.
He married Caroline Matilda Casto, of Salina on December 7, 1889, at Richfield. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last December.
Mr. Bird was active in church affairs at Salina and served as an LDS Missionary in England from 1908 to 1910. In 1912 he was sustained as first bishop of the First ward at Salina, at the time the city was divided into two wards.
For 20 years he served as a state highway patrolman.
He is survived by his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Dora Nielson of Salina, Mrs. Manilla Rasmussen of Richfield and Mrs. Zenna Rhodes of Denver; three sons, two sisters,six brothers, all of Salina; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Richfield Reaper
22 February 1940
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Salina second ward chapel for Kelsey Walter Bird, 71 who died at this home in Salina Monday.
He was born in mendon, Cache County, on March 10, 1868, a son of Kelsey and Anne Muir Bird. He moved to Sevier County at the age of eight years and had spent the rest of his life in the county, most of the time at Salina.
He married Caroline Matilda Casto, of Salina on December 7, 1889, at Richfield. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last December.
Mr. Bird was active in church affairs at Salina and served as an LDS Missionary in England from 1908 to 1910. In 1912 he was sustained as first bishop of the First ward at Salina, at the time the city was divided into two wards.
For 20 years he served as a state highway patrolman.
He is survived by his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Dora Nielson of Salina, Mrs. Manilla Rasmussen of Richfield and Mrs. Zenna Rhodes of Denver; three sons, two sisters,six brothers, all of Salina; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Richfield Reaper
22 February 1940
Parents: Kelsey and Ann Muir Bird
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Salina second ward chapel for Kelsey Walter Bird, 71 who died at this home in Salina Monday.
He was born in mendon, Cache County, on March 10, 1868, a son of Kelsey and Anne Muir Bird. He moved to Sevier County at the age of eight years and had spent the rest of his life in the county, most of the time at Salina.
He married Caroline Matilda Casto, of Salina on December 7, 1889, at Richfield. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last December.
Mr. Bird was active in church affairs at Salina and served as an LDS Missionary in England from 1908 to 1910. In 1912 he was sustained as first bishop of the First ward at Salina, at the time the city was divided into two wards.
For 20 years he served as a state highway patrolman.
He is survived by his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Dora Nielson of Salina, Mrs. Manilla Rasmussen of Richfield and Mrs. Zenna Rhodes of Denver; three sons, two sisters,six brothers, all of Salina; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Richfield Reaper
22 February 1940
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Salina second ward chapel for Kelsey Walter Bird, 71 who died at this home in Salina Monday.
He was born in mendon, Cache County, on March 10, 1868, a son of Kelsey and Anne Muir Bird. He moved to Sevier County at the age of eight years and had spent the rest of his life in the county, most of the time at Salina.
He married Caroline Matilda Casto, of Salina on December 7, 1889, at Richfield. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last December.
Mr. Bird was active in church affairs at Salina and served as an LDS Missionary in England from 1908 to 1910. In 1912 he was sustained as first bishop of the First ward at Salina, at the time the city was divided into two wards.
For 20 years he served as a state highway patrolman.
He is survived by his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Dora Nielson of Salina, Mrs. Manilla Rasmussen of Richfield and Mrs. Zenna Rhodes of Denver; three sons, two sisters,six brothers, all of Salina; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Richfield Reaper
22 February 1940
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