Show Ada Bartholomew Passes Funeral Held Monday Funeral services fo for l Mrs rs Ada Bartholomew were conducted In Inthe Inthe inthe the Ephraim North Ward Chapel Chapel Chapel Cha Cha- pel Monday afternoon by Bishop Cordon Gordon Van Epps Mrs Bartholomew 78 died at atthe atthe atthe the Gunnison Valley hospital at four o'clock Saturday morning of a stroke which paralyzed her throat so she could not swallow She had been ill ten days Pneumonia Pneumonia Pneumonia monia set in and is listed as the immediate cause of death Mrs Bartholomew is perhaps best known for two projects One was the writing of hundreds of letters to missionaries and also alsoto fo to service men during World War II and the Korean conflict She had a choice poem or other i iatter to fit each Individual case and would copy them by hand or hire them typed and send to the absent ones as need need- ed cd There is probably not a service man from Ephraim who did cUd not receive one or more letters from her The other project was the making over of old clothes and giving clvin them to 0 o the poor especially especially especially espe espe- children of the ity People would take baskets full of old clothes to Mrs Bartholomew Bartholomew Bartholomew Bar Bar- and she would c clean em and mend and patch and alter and re-make re them into serviceable serviceable serviceable service service- able wearing apparel and then give them to the needy She also worked many years in ill the Primary and in other church organizations but mostly with the young people She he w was s given n Ephraim's Yule Candle in 1950 for outstanding community service Native of Fayette Mrs Bartholomew was born bornat at Fayette June 30 1879 a daughter of Levi Lev and Sarah MatIlda Matilda Matilda Ma Ma- tilda Dack Bown She was married married married mar mar- ried to Amasa F. F Bartholomew in the he Manti ManU Temple July 13 1898 He died of influenza in 1918 leaving her with a large family She moved to Ephraim in 1922 and had made her home here since She is survived by eight sans and daughters Gerald Bartholomew Bartholomew Bartholomew Barthol Barthol- In a Veterans hospital in Richmond Va and unable t to come for the funeral Elmer Bartholomew Fayette Mrs Clayton Clayton Clayton Clay Clay- ton Esther Peterson Mrs ClIfford Clifford Clifford Clif ClIf- ford LaVon Olsen Glenn L L. Bartholomew and Mrs Clifford Beth Peterson all aU of Ephraim Mrs Preston Mildred Christensen Christensen Christensen Chris Chris- Tooele and Mrs Cecil Ruby Bargeron Provo 27 grandchildren 28 great grand children one s sister st r Sarah Jane Hill Fayette and two half bro bro and two half sisters Francis Francis Francis Fran Fran- cis Bown Manti ManU Clarence Bown Salt Lake City May Christensen Christen- Christen sen Elsinore and Lou Chris Chris- Monroe The Funeral Prelude and postlude organ music for the funeral Monday was played by Mrs Lucille Ol Ol- Ol sen Other music included I 1 Know That My Redeemer Lives by a choir directed by M Mrs r s Marie Benson and with Mrs Olsen Ol Olsen Olsen Ol- Ol sen and Mrs Ethelyn Peterson as accompanists a duet I Im ImA m mA A Pilgrim m by Mrs Bertha Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den and Maurice Nielson a vo vocal vocal vocal vo- vo cal solo Beyond The Sunset by Lawrence R R. Poulson a and n d with ith Mrs Elga Larsen as reader read read- er and an organ solo O 0 My Father by Ethelyn Peterson v who ho played the accompaniments for the duet duct and solo The prayer in the home was wasby wasby wasby by Roy D. D Mellor of ManU Manti and those at the services were by byI Cecil Bargeron of Provo a and n d I Clayton Peterson Ray Barthol Barthol- of Fayette dedicated dedicated the grave crave in the Fayette cemetery Speakers w wore were re Henry Bartholomew Bartholomew Bartholomew Barthol Barthol- of Gunnison Edgar Peterson Peterson Pe Pe- terson a grandson Vera Erickson Erick Erick- son and Bishop Van Epps 0 |