George Ezra Hulme
Montpelier Examiner, Thursday, 12 November 1953, page 1
FORMER RESIDENT
George Ezra Hulme, 66 former Bear Lake county resident, died
November 3 at 11:55 pm in a Salt Lake Hospital of virus pnuemonia. An LDS Church
and political leader, Mr. Hulme lived at Bennington for about 30 years and
before that at Bloomington. On selling his ranch at Bennington in 1946 he moved
to Bountiful Utah and was employed at Hill Field.
Mr. Hulme was bishop of the Bennington LDS Ward for 12 years, 1919 to 1931. He served as president of the High Priest Quorum and member of the Montpelier Stake High Council. He also served in the Sunday School superintendent. He was a member of the Bountiful Ward Stake High Council and in June was made a stake patriarch. He served 30 months in the Central States mission for the LDS Church, 1907 to 1910.
He held two county elective offices, that of Sheriff from 1929 to 1931 and commissioner, 1933-1935 and was chairman of county AAA for a number of years. Mr. Hulme was born October 11, 1887 at Bloomington, the son of William Hulme and Ann Maria Briscoe. He married Venice Dunford, June 8, 1910 in the Salt Lake Temple. Besides his widow he is survived by a son, Loyal Haddock Hulme of Tucson Arizona; a daughter, Mrs. Elliott (Helen) Budge of Salt Lake City; two brothers, Ben F Hulme of Manti and Amos B Hulme of Paris; four sisters, Mrs. Alonzo Matthews of Liberty, Mrs. Alvin Speirs of Clearfield, Mrs. T Jefferson Dunford of Bloomington and Mrs. Earl Sessions of Bountiful; and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 pm Saturday in Bountiful and interment was in the Bountiful cemetery.