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Show Mary Ann Hodges Dies at Age of 70 Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann Neilsen Swindle-hurst Swindle-hurst Hodges, 87, who died Oct 10 in the Beaver County Hospital Hos-pital after a lingering illness, were scheduled for 1 p. m. Friday in the Beaver First-Third First-Third Ward LDS Chapel. Mrs. Hodges, affectionately called "Aunt Mayme" by her friends, was born Jan. 4, 1875, in St. George, to Neil and Mary Ann Hunt Neilsen. She married mar-ried Joseph R. Swindlehurst July 24, 1894, in Beaver. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. He died Oct. 2, 1943. She married Charles Henry Hodges July 15, 1948. He died Dec. 6, 1957. Active in the church, she had worked in the Relief Society, and served as a counsellor in the MIA. She was a member of Belknap Camp, D U P. She had made burial clothes for hundreds of persons, and was an accomplished seamstress. seam-stress. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. H. R. (Hilda) Webb, Sacramento, Sac-ramento, Calif.; three sons, Bernett, Mesa, Ariz., and Alton and Rue Swindlehurst, both of Beaver; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. |