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- IRA MARKHAM, FOUNDER OF LDS PAGEANT, DIES
ROY - Ira Joseph Markham, 84, church, business and community leader, died Jan. 24, 1989, of Parkinson's disease in an Ogden hospital.
He was founder of the Hill Cumorah Pageant, participating in the first production in 1937.He handled trusts and estate planning at Central Hanover Bank & Trust, New York City, and later became a systems and procedures designer for U.S. Steel. He retired from the Pittsburg, Calif., office after 25 years service.
In 1980, Mr. Markham received a Brigham Young University Emeritus Club award.
He was a high councilor in four stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was the church's first bishop in Concord, Calif.
For three years, he was a member of the Bay Area Writing Committee, which prepared priesthood lesson manuals for the church.
Mr. Markham served in the Canadian Mission in the mid-1920s, was a high priest in the Roy 11th Ward, and taught business and accounting at what was then Weber College beginning in 1939.
He was born Feb. 14, 1904, in Spanish Fork, to Ira M. and Rose Patterson Markham. He attended Spanish Fork schools, graduated from Spanish Fork High School, received a bachelor's degree in accounting and business from BYU and a master of business administration degree from New York University.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Roy 11th Ward, 2175 W. 4250 South. Friends may call at Larkin & Sons Mortuary, Adams Avenue at 24th Street, Ogden, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday and at the ward chapel until 10:45 a.m. Saturday
-Deseret News, Thursday, Jan. 26, 1989
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IRA JOSEPH MARKHAM DIES, A CUMORAH PAGEANT CREATOR
Ira Joseph Markham, 84, church, business and community leader, died Jan. 24, 1989, of Parkinson's disease in an Ogden hospital.
He was appointed to a committee to create the Hill Cumorah Pageant and participated in the first production in 1937.He handled trusts and estate planning at Central Hanover Bank & Trust, New York City, and later became a systems and procedures designer for U.S. Steel. He retired from the Pittsburg, Calif., office after 25 years service.
In 1980, Mr. Markham received a Brigham Young University Emeritus Club award.
He was a high councilor in four stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was the church's first bishop in Concord, Calif.
For three years, he was a member of the Bay Area Writing Committee, which prepared priesthood lesson manuals for the church.
Mr. Markham served in the Canadian Mission in the mid-1920s, was a high priest in the Roy 11th Ward, and taught business and accounting at what was then Weber College beginning in 1939.
He was born Feb. 14, 1904, in Spanish Fork, to Ira M. and Rose Patterson Markham. He attended Spanish Fork schools, graduated from Spanish Fork High School, received a bachelor's degree in accounting and business from BYU and a master of business administration degree from New York University.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Roy 11th Ward, 2175 W. 4250 South. Friends may call at Lar-kin & Sons Mortuary, Adams Avenue at 24th Street, Ogden, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday and at the ward chapel until 10:45 a.m. Saturday.
-Deseret News, Thursday, Jan. 27, 1989
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GETS OFFER OF DIRECTOR POST
Ira J. Markham, instructor in the department of business administration at Weber Colege, has been offered the post of department director for Utah by Joseph DeBrum of the department of business education, National Education Association.
Markham participated in the association convention in San Francisco July 3 to 6 inclusive, directing round table discussions during departmental sessions.
In offering the post, DeBrum wrote Markham as follows:
"Because of the most satisfactory manner in which you handled your convention responsibilities, you are my No. 1 choice for doing department director for Utah."
The position entails direction of membership activities in the state, serving as special reporter for the publication, "National Business News," and making of suggestions to the president and executive committee on the department service program. As department director, Markham will also be asked to cooperate with other officers in planning the 1940 convention. Markham has indicated he will accept the appointment.
-Ogden Standard Examiner, August 17, 1939, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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1904 - 1989 (84 years)