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Show 'PHRONIA' HAWLEY METHODIST WORKER. PASSES AWAY Funeral services were conducted con-ducted Tuesday for Sophronia Ellen Hawley, 81, who died Feb. 22 of natural causes at the home of Dr. Eugene Davie. The services, under direction of Rev. Jim Sloan, were as follows: fol-lows: Scripture reading, Rev. Sloan. Obituary, Dr. Davie. Solo, Victor Kaufman, accompanied accom-panied by Mrs. Dora Pool. Prelude and postlude organ music, Mrs. Myrtle Tribole. Pallbearers were Gerald Schaw, Wallace Fotheringham, John Jimenez, Carr Wiseman, R. G. Van Horn and Jim Smith-son. Smith-son. The flowers were cared for by Mrs. Gladys Bush and Mrs. Dora Smithson. A niece, Mrs. Gretchen Hawley Haw-ley of Seattle, Wash., came to Milford to make arrangements for the services. After cremation in Las Vegas, she was taken to Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale ,Calil Sophronia Ellen Hawley was born March 27 ,1887, at Laurens, Laur-ens, Iowa, to George and Mary Hawley, pioneer residents of Laurens. She was a member of the Methodist Church. ' She studied music at the University of Chicago, and was an instructor in music for several sev-eral years in Seattle and sever-1 sever-1 al smaller towns in Washington and Oregon. She studied nursing nurs-ing in San Francisco and at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, where she received her RN degree. She took advanced post-graduate work in nursing at Women's Hospital in New York City. She followed the 1 nursing profession in California and Arizona, and was special nurse for several prominent persons. She had nine brothers and sisters, one of whom is still living, Mrs. Mae Roewe of Laurens, Iowa; also many nephews neph-ews and nieces. |