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Descendants, residents invited to Daniel Funk Legacy celebration | Sanpete Messenger

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A Funk’s Lake painting with steamboat in the 1880s. The artwork was commissioned by Daniel Buckley Funk and sent as a postcard around the United States as an advertisement for visits to the lake. (Photo courtesy William H. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel (“red church”) on 300 South and Main Street in Manti.

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