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Show FUNERAL HELD ! IN SPRINGVILLE Services for Mrs. J. Albert Groesbeck, Who Passed Away Thursday. Funeral services were held in the Sprinpville First ward chnpel Sunday Sun-day afternoon December 30, for Mrs, Charolette Hill Groesbeck, age 73, who died at the family home Thursday evening December 27. On Auguest 2 and again on August 5, j Mrs. Groesbeck suffered a stroke j which left her paralized in the lft J side and from which she ha8fver recovered. - r?1 ! John n. Manwaring of the ward i bishopric was in charge. A mixed quartet comcosed of Miss Dora and Elmo Coffnian, Lela Boyer and George Johnson sauff "My Jesus as Thou Wilt." The invocation was offered of-fered by C. W. Erickaon of the ward bishopric and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Brown sang a duet "Oh My Father." Bishop O. B. Huntington was the first speaker. He gave a brief sketch of the life of Mrs. Groesbeck stating that she was born at Council Bluff, Iowa and came with her parents to Utah in the year 1850 and was a pioneer in SpringviUe in the year 1851. She had two brothers who together with her parents pre-ceeded pre-ceeded her in death. Glenn Allan and Mrs. May Senior sang a duet "Sometime We'll Understand." Under-stand." John Wardsworth who was the second speaker said, "If there is any thing we should be n yfr 1 tor when we lay our dead away it is , for the sweet singing we hear and the beautiful flowers we have " He , said he had lived a neighbor to Mrs. . Groesbeck for many years and that . she always grew a garden of flow- ers which she cut and sent to the sick and to funerals and to those in , sorrow. The quartet sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and the benediction was offered by Myron A. Bover interment took place at the Evergreen Ever-green cemetery under the direction or a. x. Wheeler, undertaker. The grave was dedicated by John H Manwaring. Mrs. Groesbeck is survived by her husband, J. Albert Groesbeckf one rrnaa, ,thr,e,6 dnuShte. Squire Groesbeck, Mrs. Kittle Groesbeck Larson of Keller, California. Mrs Josephine . Groesbeck Raymond, of AlcCammon, Idaho and Mrs. Tillie WasehSonFlenner f 8 |