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Show LOCAL RESIDENT'S MOTHER DIES Funeral services for Mrs. Christina Wells Birch, 79, of 30 Carr Fork, who died Saturday at 8:20 a.m. in a West Jordan rest home of causes incident to age, were conducted at noon Tuesday in Bingham LDS ward chapel with Bishop Wilford H. ; Harris officiating. Services included organ prelude, pre-lude, Nora Austin; vocal duet, "In the Garden", Mary Raby and Phoebe Siddoway, accompanied by Mrs. Austin; invocation, Eugene Eu-gene Morris; tribute, Robert H. Beard, grandson of Sister Birch; remarks, Victoria Lyon, Sunday School teacher and neighbor; vocal vo-cal duet "Through Deepening Trials", Mrs. Raby and Mrs. Siddoway; speaker, W. Heber Wilds, former president of Sum- mit stake and neighbor; vocal solo "Going Home", Joel P. Jensen, accompanied by Mrs. Austin; benediction, Verl J. McMillan. Mc-Millan. Pallbearers were Elmo A. Nelson, Nel-son, El wood Johnson, Carl Nichols, Nich-ols, A. G. Woodland, David C. Lyon, and W. Raby. Interment was in Hoytville city cemetery under direction of Bingham Mortuary. Mor-tuary. J. Parley Brown of the Hoytville ward bishopric dedicated dedica-ted the grave. A daughter of John and Elizabeth Eliza-beth Mets Wells, she was born in Morgan, Morgan county, June 9, 1872, and was graduated from Morgan stake academy. She was married to Heber David Birch, April 11, 1879, in the Salt Lake LDS temple. After her marriage, she resided in Hoytville until the death of her husband in 192(1 She lived in Coalville from 1920 to 1927, when she moved to Bingham Bing-ham Canyon to live with her daughter Mrs. Edna Beard, Bingham. Bing-ham. Mrs. Birch had been active in the LDS Relief Society and Primary Ass'n. in Coalville and Hoytville. , Surviving besides her daughter daugh-ter are: five grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Wells Hogg, Burley, Idaho. |