George Speirs, for many years one of Bellingham's leading businessmen, being known chiefly for his operation of a printing establishment, and who during A. M. Muir's term of mayor was a member of the city water board, died Sunday at his home, 2515 Cornwall avenue. Mr. Speirs had lived here forty-one years and was 74 years of age. He had been ill three months. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, holding his membership in Scotland. Funeral services will be held at the Harlow-Hollingsworth funeral home Wednesday at 2 p. m., with the Rev. James M. Wilson officiating. Interment will occur in Bay View cemetery. Surviving relatives are the widow, Mrs. M. Maud Speirs; one daughter, Mrs. John A. Graham, and one grandson, George Speirs Graham, Bellingham; one brother, A. Speirs, Glasgow, Scotland, and one sister, Mrs. Annie McLaughlan, Peachland, B. C.
