Show KANOSH mr and mrs airs bettridge ot of parowan carowan who have hame been visiting tor for some time left for their homo home last friday mrs airs Betti betteridge ridge was formerly uvada of this towne tawni mrs airs lilly robins and mr air vernon vernoa of salt lake city were here to attend the funeral services ot of their grandmother sister black there were a numbered of people from mea dow and fillmore were here sunday tor for the funeral mr air william abraham from rich field celd spent sunday and monday mr johnson returned to richfield with him mrs mra illa ilia johnson Is hero visiting with her parents mr and mrs ted black A ward party was given last fri day night tor for the home missionaries games earnee pro grammes dancing and occupied the time we always wel come home missionaries from ahr th different ilin erent towns and enjoy their visit with us mrs elmer ross entertained at A birthday dinner in fix honor of 0 sister hilda bird last wednesday about thirty relatives and friends sat down to a banquet ot of af dinner averyt everything hing real tasty being served in grand style using hand band painted china ad out cut glass every everk person was trying to outdo the other in jokes and comic stories games were I 1 played and music had OBITUARY funeral ber services vices wei i held sunday afternoon over the reso remains alnis ot of mary ann black who died january on her birthday after an ill III ness ot of 20 hours services were preidel over by bishop A T the belec selections tiona ot of so baga gs and singing by the choir und under erthe the direction ot of thomas wore very beautiful af and appropriate a solo the beau city was sung by sister grace staples also a solo entitled face to face was rendered by sister reb ecca kimball prayer was offered by elder orson whitaker bened I 1 0 tion by elder james abraham the grave was dedicated by elder frank slaughter the speakers were alonzo robison 0 of fillmore president john A deck beck strand elders B H watts orson chita whitaker er wm II 11 staples A A kirn kim ball C F christensen Chrls bishop A T Kapp Happ leye all had known her all their lives and spoke of 0 her integrity aad faithfulness to the gospel which she had espoused and tor for which she had made so many sacrifices since embracing the same in or early girl hood days mary ann donely black was born in county dairy ireland january 26 1834 first head of 0 the gospel message as it was delivered by elders john T D Alo Callister and james fergison Ferg lson nd ad being a student of the scripture seh received a testimony 0 of the truthfulness of their message and joined the church and became a life time friend to the former elder mentioned she emi granted soon after her con version after ai a futile effort to con vert her loved ones to the faith of tho the latter day saints leaving all she loved so dear being eleven weeks on the ocean in an old salling sailing vessel which went down and was lost on an its return trip to ireland she crossed the plains in william G youngs company ho bo many years later told bishop A A kimball ot of kanosh utah few women had bad made more sacrifices for the gospel than she she married george black who was called by president young in connect tion with hla his father mother and two brothers william V and joseph S and their families to go eo and settle spring city in sanpete county utah and later to dixie when released from that mission moved to kanosh where I 1 she lived the remainder of her life she was made president of 0 the first primary in kanosh se seved served ved al all I 1 her life a relief society worker a portion of the time the presidency she was always found at her post of duty it wa a cimmon thing for her to be call ed from the audience by tho the bishop to use the ame in speaking at the sunday sacrament meetings and sho she nearly alaya her self belt of the opportunity to arise and bear her testimony la in the testimony meetings mec continued on oa page eight KANOSH continued from page one she he read all good books and was especially ond fond of the great poets robert burns her favorite sho she memorized what she thought to be the tha lebost selections and quoted thorn thom at will up until the day ot of her bar death she 0 was the mother of seven seren children alice ot of annie What colt ott of 0 salt lake city lillian black deceased I 1 E L black of kanosh joseph who died in infancy laura deceased birdie murry san francisco Franc laco california Cali torna forna to te testimony of 0 her Br Dr ethern was she eho had ought fought the good fights and kept the faith alth there tore fore a crown of awaited her in the the Cel celestial kingdom of our father |