George Dewey Briscoe
The News-Examiner, Thursday, May 3, 1956, page 1
FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN SPOKANE
George Dewey Briscoe, former resident of Bloomington, died on April 23 in Spokane. He was born in Bloomington on November 13, 1898, the son of John and Deborah Haddock Briscoe. He attended school in Bloomington at Fielding Academy in Paris and LDS business college in Salt Lake City.
During World War I he worked in the ordnance department in Washington DC returning to Paris where he was employed in the county auditor's office. He later taught school in Wardboro and after a period of years teaching in commercial departments of various high school in Idaho, he was employed by the Internal Revenue department in the state of Idaho for several years. The past few years he was an auditor for the United States government in California, Utah, Idaho and Washington and had resided in Spokane for five years. At the time of his death he was chief of the accounting, Spokane Air Force storage division at Fairchild Air Force Base.
Services were held at the Thornhill funeral home in Spokane on April 26 and also in Bloomington Saturday at 1 pm in the ward chapel with Bishop T Jay Nelson conducting. The invocation was by Jay Haddock and opening remarks by Bishop Nelson. A song "Oh My Father" was by a quartet comprised of Dean Ward, Paul Haddock, Hulme Dunford and Charles Hulme; speaker J Bryan Haddock; vocal solo "Not Understood" by Max Haddock, accompanied by Mrs. Lester Armatage; speaker Amos B Hulme; song "Nearer My God to Thee" choir; benediction Bishop W Payne.
Interment was in the Bloomington cemetery where the grave was dedicated by Lorin Roberts. The Matthews Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.