Lorton Morton Cranney

Lorton M. Cranney passed away Tuesday March 26, 1940 at the Star Valley Hospital of Bronchial Pneumonia. He arrived home from Arizona with his wife March 10, stopping off in Salt Lake City during a severe storm, where he contracted a bad cold. After staying in Salt Lake City he and his wife came on to Star Valley where he consulted Dr. Worthen and received medical treatment which seemed to relieve him and he went on home to Etna. Last Friday morning thinking he was well enough to take the examination for enumerator of the 1940 U.S. Census, he went to Kemmerer, but the drive over there and the strain of the examination was too much for his weakened condition. At noon after having a heart attack he came home and that evening he was taken to the hospital with bronchial pneumonia, where with the best care and attention that could be given, he passed away Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. in the presence of his entire family. He leaves to mourn his loss, a loving wife, two sons, Hiram k. Cranney of Salt Lake City and Delbert Cranney of Lewiston, Utah, also four daughters, Mrs Willard Rainey of Etna, Mrs. Toll Chapman of Etna, Mrs. Blanche Hill of Alpine and Mary Elizabeth Cranney of Etna. Lorton was born in Logan, November 12 1868, the son of Hiram k. Cranney and Elizabeth Crook Cranney. While still a boy he filled a mission in the Southern States. After he received his release at the expiration of more than two years, he returned to his home in Logan where he married Nellie Kimball in the Logan Temple and moved to Oregon, where he worked two years for Oregon Lumber Co. Coming back to Logan in 1895 on account of the serious illness of his wife, who died that fall. Lorton went back to Oregon, again working for the Lumber Co. until 1898 when he came to Star Valley to live. In 1899 he went to Canada on a Mutual Improvement Mission where he traveled over the L.D.S,District in company with President Joseph F. Smith, which was a lifetime thrill to L.M. In the fall of 1900 he returned to Star Valley and married Mary Elizabeth Parsons, the eldest daughter of Bishop William parsons of Smoot, in the Logan Temple. During the years following he secured a ranch and did well in Smoot, but wanting more land in 1906 he moved to Etna where his ranch was a home to fishers and hunters from all parts of the country until 1935, when for the third time he was called into the mission field, going to Texas for six months as the crowning pleasure of his life, as an active missionary. He and his wife have spent 3 winters in the temples doing work for his kindred dead, at Logan, Salt Lake, Manti, St. George and Mesa, meeting the choice men and women of the earth. Funeral services will be held in Etna Friday at 2:00 p.m. Interment will be in the Afton Cemetery.

Cranney, Lorton M (28 Mar 1940)Star Valley Independent

Lorton Morton CRANNEY is the son of Hiram Kingsley CRANNEY and Elizabeth CROOK

Lorton Morton CRANNEY married Mary Elizabeth PARSONS  8 Aug 1900  in Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Ut Sarah Ellen KIMBALL   28 Aug 1895

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