Byron Douglas Price
Marriages
Mary Ellen Contilon
Died along with infant son
Millie
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterpirse page 1 - September 25, 1952
BYRON DOUGLAS PRICE
Byron Douglas Price, youngest of thirteen children, was born July 2, 1881 in Goshen, Utah, the son of William and Martha Van Scott Price. Utah pioneers of 1847 who settled in Salt Lake Valley. Later his father was called by President Brigham Young to found the new settlement at Goshen, where he presided as Bishop of the Latter Day Saints Church for many years. It was here that the family endured many privations and hardships, followed by prosperity and much happiness. It was here also that Byron spent his childhood receiving his early schooling and later completing his education at the University of Utah. In the year 1902, Byron was united in marriage by his father, Bishop Price, to Mary Ellen Contilon of Goshen, Utah. To this union were born three daughters Winifred Cecelia, Helen Lavinia and Josephine. His life’s occupation was faming, railroading and sheep raising which brought him and his older brother, Fred into Eagle county in 1917 and were the first sheepmen in this valley. They first lived in Gypsum, where Byron lost and buried his wife, Mary Ellen, an infant son and his daughter, Helenin the next few years he met and married his present wife, Millie, mother of Olive Walker, soon after he and brother Fred dissolved partnership in stock raising and Byron became mutually interested in the Eagle River Hotel in Minturn, which Millie had owned and operated for many years. Together they worked and rebuilt and made a name for the hotel and themselves which was reknown throughout the county and state—a headquarters for sportsmen and businessmen alike Byron was deeply interested in all civic affairs, his home an# neighbors, the welfare of Minturn which he loved best of all his traveled places. He was deeply and sincerely int in town and county politics and had just recently accepted the nomination of county judge, to which he was giving his deepest interest, hoping to win, in order to continue serving in public life. Mourning his death are his wife, Millie; daughters, Winifred Koch of Colorado Springs; Josephine Hart of Los Angeles; Olive Walker of Minturn; brother, Fred Price of Gypsum and four grandchildren Mr. Price died suddenly in his home Friday morning of a heart attack. Funeral services were In the Minturn Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon Sept 21 and burial was in the family plot at Gypsum, under the direction of Bowman Funeral Chapel of Eagle.
