Winford T. Failner:

Brothers and Sisters, we are happy to welcome you here at these services and we hope the Lord will be here with His spirit to pay our tribute to Brother Newman. The services are being held in the Belvedere Ward. Brother Burgess is a member of the Glendale First Park Ward. Brother Allen is presiding in this ward and I am officiating as a counselor in the Glendale Park First Ward. Dr. John Blaine Keddington is at the organ. Our opening prayer will be given by Brother Harold Weed. He is an uncle of Carol.

Harold Weed:  

Our kind and Heavenly Father, we bow our heads in humility and sorrow on this occasion and we ask Thy kind care and consideration while these services are conducted. Bless those who are to officiate that they may have Thy spirit and that the services may be conducted in accordance with Thy mind and will.  We ask at this particular time to bless the family and those who sorrow over the loss of a son and a father and a husband. Bless the family of this fine Brother Don Newman that they may realize that this is a probationary stage that mortality is short and that we have the gospel plan and our knowledge of  the same to help us through this sphere of action.   

We turn these services over to Thee at this time and ask Thy kind consideration in behalf of all of us.

This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Winford T. Failner:  

Our first number will be a song by Brother Allen Burgess and he will be accompanied by Dr. John Blaine Keddington. Brother Burgess has another engagement and would like to be excused immediately after his solo. Following that, we will have remarks by Alvin Bowcutt, Superintendent of Plant of the Lang Company where Brother Donald Newman worked.

 Alvin Bowcutt:

My Brothers and Sisters, one never really realizes the worth or extent of friendship until occasions like this arise. But when we look over this audience and the many beautiful floral offerings, it is evident that Don had many friends. This is indeed to me an honor to be asked by this good family to occupy a few moments this afternoon on this solemn occasion. It is an honor that I do not particularly feel worthy of and I do not entirely feel capable of, but I hope and pray that you will bear with me and offer a prayer in my behalf that the Lord will bless me that I may have sufficient control over myself to perhaps leave a thought that will be of some comfort and satisfaction to Don's lovely wife, to his sweet and patient mother, his brothers and sisters and to my good friend and co- worker, Jeff Newman.

I first became acquainted with this good family seventeen years ago when I came to work at the Lang Company. There, Brother Jeff was employed as lay-out man in the layout division of the company. I learned to respect Jeff in many ways. We have enjoyed many hours discussing our families and many trials relative to raising them. I benefited much by his years of experience because, brethren, he has had many and many experiences.

Jeff and his wife have surely been blessed in that they have reared a large family. All of them are a credit to society.

I came to know Don about ten years ago. He came to work for the Lang Company and went out on a construction job with me down at Pioche, Nevada. From that time, my opinion of Don has been the highest. He kept himself clean and free from  the temptations of the world. He conducted himself always so that it was an honor to say I was associated with him on that job and the many jobs that followed. He had been a good workman. He has always been dependable and trustworthy. Don has had an avid desire to better his conditions. He not only worked hard in the day, but spent many hours studying at night; always with the thought in mind of making things better for his family and becoming more proficient on his job.

At the time of his passing, he held the position of lead man in his department. In this position of leadership, Don has displayed the type of leadership that is so vital to American industry today. He possessed the ability to get along with people and to get the most out of the men that worked with him. The men of his department cheerfully responded to his request and recognized him as the leader.

Don was always a devoted husband and father. On many occasions he has spoken of his sweet wife and lovingly told of little things his boys have done. Don was truly a friend to all who knew him. The type of friend so beautifully portrayed in the poem called "Friendship" by Ruth Margaret Gibbs.

Friendship

I want to laugh when I know you're gay,
And smile at the funny things you say.
I want to rejoice in your victory,
As though you have done it all for me,
I want to be always staunch and true,
That's the kind of friend I would be to you.

I Want to know, when I take your hand,
That here is one who will understand,
Who will feel the throb of your heart in pain,
And long for the time when it's healed again,
Who will know when shadows come your way,
And will watch with you 'til the time of day.

If others stop, as they sometimes do,
Remember a friend who will see you through.
If you tread the whole world, no matter where,
There is one to follow you with prayer.
Why, there's hardly a thing I wouldn't do,
Because, my friend, I believe in you.

Don truly believed in the good of all people.

When Don and his lovely young bride were married, they went to the house of the Lord and were sealed for time and all eternity. Don and his wife have so patterned their lives prior to this union so that when the day arrived for the wedding, it was not necessary for them to delay or set back this spiritual event. They were ready and worthy to enter the house of the Lord and become man and wife. Their compliance to the laws have entitled them to the blessings.

Don's life was not by chance. He was a chosen spirit and because of his worthiness, he was born by wonderful parents under the covenant of the priesthood. He was privileged to come to earth in this great day and age when all knowledge was given to man are, or will be restored. Don lived his first estate and had glory added to himself in the form of another body. He enjoyed the association of his loved ones in that first estate the same as he has here in mortality. The sorrow born in the separation of his loved ones when he left the spirit world was very similar as it is today. We mourn his parting while others rejoice in his advent into Paradise.

We must realize we are not here by chance nor is death the end, but that we are in a second estate in a life's pattern to extend through the eternities. May Don's wife know, and I am sure she does, that this passing of her dear companion is not in vain, or the end, but only the blooming forth into a more important life and as surely as I stand before you, she and Don shall be together again. They shall know each other as they have known each other here. They shall love each other as they have loved each other here.

Made out of flesh, God gave us a body which is vital to our eternal progression. Our existence prior to mortality was very similar to this. We were born a spiritual being. We lived with and loved each other in the pre mortal existence. Then we accomplished to a point where it was necessary for us to have this mortal body in order to make advancement, the way was made possible for us to be born in the flesh. Our spirit was held to come forth in these latter days when all prophecy will be fulfilled. All the Lord has given to man is to be restored.

This, truly, is the greatest era the world has ever known. The perfection of which will not be complete until all man come to love each other and respect each other's rights as Gods children, even, I should say, the family of this wonderful Brother and Sister Newman respect and love each other. God has made us a promise that if we abide by His laws, I would say here in mortality, there is a blessing awaiting us. Through Don's obedience to the eternal covenant of marriage and all requirements prior to it, he shall be reunited again with this wonderful family.

We know in the future estate we will be more happy than we are here. The bonds of families will be stronger, our love and respect for each other will be much greater. Our bodies will be perfected and our Joy will be complete. So, I say to these loved ones of Dons, his passing now is bitter but when your time comes to meet him, you will realize how sweet and complete it was to Don. He has gone to prepare a place for you that where he is, you may be also. We do not understand why Don was called at this early age of life, but as it is said, "It is not the design of the Father that the earthly career of any shall terminate until they shall have lived out their days. It is not the design of the Father that we should all live to be old.

The reason that so few men live out their days is because of the first of sin in the world and the time of death over the human family. To these causes, and not the design of the Father, may we attribute the fact that disease stops the human race in the aged, the middle-aged, the youth and the infants.

We have no reason to mourn over a person who has honored the priesthood, for his passing is in peace and his resurrection will be glorious.

I would like to read a poem entitled, 'There Is no Death".

There is no death.
The stars go down to rise upon some other shore
And high in heavens jeweled crown,
They shine forever more.

There is no death, I will agree
When beautiful familiar sounds
That we have learned to love
Are torn from our emotional arms.

They are not dead, they have but passed
Beyond the midst that landed us here
Into a new and larger life
Of that serener sphere.

They have but dropped their robes of clay
To put their shining raiment on.
They have not wandered far away,
They are not lost nor gone.

And ever near us they will seem,
The dear, the noble spirits tread
That all the boundless universe is life
There are no dead.

I wish to ask the blessings of the Lord on this good family that they may see and understand the necessity of these things. It is true, we know not why he was taken at this early age of life. We will meet him again. The reunion will be perfect. Our love and admiration for each other will continue. Our lives will be complete and I ask the blessings of the Lord upon them in, the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Bishop Clarence E. Schank:

I trust that the prayer that was offered at the beginning of this service may be answered in my behalf that I might be guided and make a few remarks which will be of comfort and consolation to those who are called upon at this hour. This is always a difficult task for me. However, I am very grateful and honored that I am considered a friend of the Newman family that I be asked to make a few remarks on this solemn occasion.

When Brother Newman called me on Saturday morning and asked me if I would accept this assignment and finding out the death of Don, I was deeply surprised. It came to me as a severe shock as I had not been aware of his illness.

We have learned to love Don and the Newman family. They have been stalwarts in this ward. Don was an active boy like the rest of the boys in the Newman family, gone through the various priesthood quorums. He was one of the active boys. He advanced into the various priesthood quorums and got into the Elders' Quorum. Not long after war was declared, Don was called into the service. There he remained, I believe, for about five years.

I remember his little brother Jim who is the youngest of the family in the service. I remember the many letters given to me which is typical of Don and the rest of the family. He expressed a deep appreciation for his parents and his loved ones. In his letters, he expressed his love for his parents, how grateful he was that they taught him the gospel. And I am sure if I had received as many letters from Don as the other boy, I know those letters would have carried the same sweet spirit and that great appreciation.

I am sure Don is like Nephi of old when he made the expression, "Having been born of goodly parents and taught the language of his fathers." I am sure Don has been taught the gospel by his loving mother and father who were always interested in his well-being, particularly while he was in the service.

Brother and Sister Newman are stalwarts in our ward. They are grand people. There has not been a task or assignment but what they have responded to the fullest extent. Brother Newman has always been active as one of the leaders in this ward. I remember one time he led the Genealogical Association of this ward. He did exceptionally well., He has headed other organizations such as the ward teaching, instructor in his quorum work and I know that with the testimony that Brother and Sister Newman Have, I know that testimony has been instilled in the hearts of their girls and boys.

It is a very marvelous thing when we consider a family could bring eight children in the world under these troublesome times, rear them properly and keep them in the path of righteousness. Brother and Sister Newman have been like a mother and father chicken who carry their little brood around with them and take good care of them. They have loved them and they have loved and respected them. We think a lot of this Newman family.

I remember when Don came home from the service. It was not longer after, he was very desirous of taking his young bride in the Temple and being married there. He came to the office. I knew him then. We were very happy to issue a recommend to him because I knew he was entitled to it and worthy and lived his religion. As our first speaker mentioned they went to the Temple and were sealed for time and all eternity and I wonder if we as members really appreciate the opportunity which is ours to go to the house of the Lord and receive our endowments. We know the first temple was built in Kirtland, Ohio which was primarily for the purpose of the restoration of the keys of the priesthood, the keys of the ordinances, Elijah the prophet's mission, Moses' mission, Elias' mission was to complete in that temple. It served its purpose. The Saints were driven out of Nauvoo where they built a magnificent temple under hardships. A few of the brothers and sisters received endowments there then they were driven on to these valleys of the Rocky Mountains. The first thing that was done was to build a temple to our Heavenly Father so they might have the opportunity of going therein and have these sacred ordinances performed in their behalf, both for the living and for the dead.

Don had the opportunity of going into that temple and having his wife sealed to him for time and all eternity so they might too enjoy the patriarchal order that his father has and also the pattern was given where he was given a plan of the patriarchal order that he should be the father of a patriarchal world of the children of our Heavenly Father as we come down where the various families and that of the head shows us a patriarch over his family. It is a great opportunity for Don to have that calling and I know he has been faithful. I know his lovely wife will be faithful and true to the covenants which she has made.

Our Heavenly Father told His disciples at one time when He was asked which lady this man would have in marriage, He said none of them in the heavens, because there is no marriage given in heaven.

But here in mortality we have that opportunity to be married for time and eternity. I wonder if we appreciate it as greatly as we should. These are some of the beautiful truths of the gospel. The ordinance is given to us that if we comply, it will give us the privilege of living in the Celestial Kingdom. As our Heavenly Father has told us, there are three degrees, the Telestial, the Terrestrial and the Celestial and all our good men and women will go to the Terrestrial Kingdom but those who comply to all the ordinances of the gospel will be assigned and gain entrance into the Celestial Kingdom. What a great privilege and promise it is for us in that great promise that the Lord gave unto the Prophet Joseph when he told all the brethren that those who received the priesthood of our Heavenly Father would become the sons of those when they are born and even the seed of Abraham and that all the blessings which our Heavenly Father has in store would be given them provided they magnified their calling in the priesthood. What a great promise our Heavenly Father has given unto His children.

It is worth it, Brothers and Sisters. We live here but a short time, but yet our years that we are here determines the exaltation we have in our Heavenly Father's Kingdom.

I am sure, Don, although he has but lived a few years, he has completed his mission well and he will be received with great joy and happiness and there he will be privileged to complete his mission.

As our first speaker mentioned, it is difficult for us to answer the question why these young men and women are called so early in life. I recall my little sister was taken at the age of eight and a half, my brother at seventeen and a half and my sister at the age of thirty-one, our mother at sixty-four. It has brought the thought many, many times why is it that people are taken at such an early year in life. It has given me great thought but it has given me a greater appreciation of the gospel: It has helped me to live more closely to our Heavenly Father because I am sure their activity, their sincerity, their sweet living throughout their days they will receive a great joy and happiness in exaltation in our Heavenly Father's Kingdom. They have missed all the trials of mortality. They have missed all the sorrows, yet when we go on to our Heavenly Father's Kingdom there are no sorrows, there are no trials, there are no worries but advancement and progression and working out our salvation there performing the work of our Heavenly Father.

May the Lord bless Brother and Sister Newman and their lovely family, because they are a lovely family, their desires of serving our Heavenly Father. They have been faithful and true and may the Lord bless them and sustain them, comfort them in their hour of bereavement and also Don's two little children and his lovely wife, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Winford T. Failner:

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I was asked to make a few remarks here and while I am not a speaker by any means I would like to tell you of my feelings of Brother Donald Newnan in our ward and his dear wife, Sister Newman.

Our ward is a very young ward. We have probably their age as the average age in our ward. We do not have many old folks to help us along and in our visit with Brother Donald Newman and his wife in his home, I can remember and I would like to remember him that way, how we sat down and talked with him as to how he could help us in our ward in the building of the Kingdom of God here upon the earth. We talked to him about the various activities that he had in the past and he expressed his desire to help and to make our ward grow. Sister Newman also expressed the same. We are in the beginning of building a new chapel. Our ward is three months old and because of the lack of facilities in our stake and the other wards and the fast growth and the moving in of young people, it is great and honorable to go into a home and find someone who is willing to help to build a chapel who have not lived in the ward long and to contribute their time and talents for the building of the kingdom here of God. We are very grateful that they moved into our ward. Brother Newman, the father, expressed to me how he appreciated the church, how the brothers and sisters helped each other. That means a lot to me, too. I have learned to appreciate the church and one of the greatest securities in the church is the knowledge of the hereafter.

So many churches I have attended have not been that way. Some believe that birth is the beginning and death is the end and what a great sense of security it is to find out that that is not all there is to it. Our spirits came here and took upon themselves a body and this is the second and final salvation. What we do here upon this earth and now with our bodies to gain our reward and to store treasures in heaven, treasures in heaven that no one can take from us, no one can steal or harm in any way. Those things, I am sure, Brother Newman will be rewarded. It will be a great rejoicing at his coming the same as it will be a great day of rejoicing for Sister Newman.

They set a pattern here with a temple marriage, sealed for all eternity. I do not know of any other church that I ever attended that they did such a thing as that. And yet it is the commandment of God that we should be sealed for all eternity for the progression to prepare ourselves for the highest degree of glory.

Brother Newman was a service man. He went forth and served his country, served his country for what he believed was right and served it with his heart to give his very life if necessary to defend those principles that we believe in in America here today, the principles that many countries have forgotten of the truths and freedom, freedom of religion, free to worship God as you please, go to church where you want to, the church that you like and to search the scriptures and. read them to defend its if you believe it. Brother Newman must have believed in that to go and offer his life for this country to do that. Many young men have done that and we in America should certainly appreciate that freedom that we have; go to our meetings and do the best we can while we are here to prepare ourselves to meet our Heavenly Father.

And so, it has been a pleasure to know this family and to meet their two young boys. I shall never forget it and especially their two youngest ones. It always stands out in my memory how we met that night and what a fine family for all of them to know and believe in God and to belong to this church and to help in the progression of it.

There have been many fine things said here today by speakers who are capable of speaking to you, but I would like to bear my testimony as to the truthfulness of this gospel and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and through his revelations have made it clear that we understand the plan of salvation which you have heard today. Many people who do not believe that, I do not know how they feel when this time comes, but I am sure we can be comforted now. The Lord said, "Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted." And through our knowledge of the scriptures and the knowing that this is not the end, it will be a great comfort to me when that time comes.

I hope the Lord will bless each and every member of this family and bless Sister Newman that she may keep her courage and to keep the commandments of God and to serve Him and be humble and prayerful for His guidance and I know that each and every one of us in this chapel today will pray for such a thing as that, that they may be comforted. I bear you this testimony that this is the true gospel and that these are the latter days and that what we do upon this earth and prepare ourselves to meet our Maker that we may join together as one large happy family in the hereafter and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

We will next have a song by Sister Eva Yates and she will be accompanied by Sister Eleanor Fredrickson.

The family has asked me to be sure to express their appreciation to all those who have attended here this day to show their respects to their son and to her husband and for all of those who have taken part in any way to make these services a success, they thank you from the bottom of their hearts and their appreciation to the Relief Society of the Belvedere Ward who have taken care of the flowers and to the First Ward Relief Society for the refreshments and other things which would help the family in any way. They thank you very much.

The pallbearers today are his brothers, Edward, James, Glenn and Ray C. Newman and Carol's brothers, Marvin and Kenneth Fredrickson.

All of you who join the procession to the cemetery will please put on your lights and drive carefully that there might not be any accidents on the way. The dedication of the grave will be given by Patriarch John Keddington who is an uncle of the family. This concludes our services here in the chapel. Our closing prayer will be given by Brother Ferron Gurney, a cousin of Carols.

Ferron Gurney:

Our Father in Heaven, we at this time bow our heads before Thee with thankful hearts unto Thee for the privilege we have had of knowing this beloved brother, Brother Don Newman. We thank Thee, our Father, for the good life he has lived, for the associations we have had, one with another, with him, for these splendid services that have taken place here this day, for the many things that have been said in his name for the praise for the good life that he has lived.

We thank Thee, our Father in Heaven, for the peace and Thy spirit that has been here with us and we pray Thee that Thou wilt bless those who have been called to mourn, his wife at this time that she may be able to see and realize that the departing of her dear loved one is but a graduation from this life and that she will again have the privilege of joining with him and to go on and be his life's companion there. Bless his mother and father that they too may realize that it is the, graduation of their son, though he has been called home before they have, that they may realize it is his time that he may go on to the other side and continue on with his work there and prepare for then and his wife and children who are yet to join with him.

We pray Thee, our Heavenly Father, that Thou wilt bless this group this day as they leave this chapel that they may go on and journey to the cemetery that no harm or accident may befall them in any way and that his remains will be deposited in a satisfactory manner unto Thee and to those who are left here. We pray Thee, Heavenly Father, that Thou wilt bless us with Thy spirit to be with us and Thou wilt comfort the hearts of, all who are called to mourn at this time and be and abide with them in their homes that they may realize Thy blessing, Thy will in all things may be done and we do it all in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, Amen.