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Show Popular Educator Buried at Mayfield In the sudden death of Miss Lillian Christiansen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Christiansen of Mayfield, at a Salt Lake hospital Friday afternoon, after-noon, an accomplished and charming young woman is taken away. Miss Christiansen died very suddenly. She was at the hospital recovering from an operation for appendicitis, and according to nurses attending the young woman was in high spirits over the fact that she would soon be released. re-leased. One of the nurses had just attended at-tended her and was in the act of leaving the room for Miss Christiansen's Christian-sen's breakfast. As. the nurse reached the door, Miss Christiansen was suddenly sud-denly stricken and died immediately. A blood clot on the lung was given as the cause of the instant death. Lillian Christiansen was widely and popularly known in Sanpete county coun-ty and in educational circles throughout through-out the state. After graduating from the schools at Mayfield, her home town, she attended the Brigham Young university at Provo. She attended at-tended Snow college at Ephraim, completing her training course with high honors. She followed her chosen profession, that of teaching, and gained gain-ed a splendid reputation as an educator educa-tor at Axtell and Mayfield, where she spent her first years in teaching. Some two years ago she accepted a position at the Bingham' schools, and it was while there that she was stricken. The high school building at May-field, May-field, where impressive sen-ices were held Sunday at 2 o'clock for Miss Christiansen, was filled to " overflowing overflow-ing with sorrowing friends and relatives. rela-tives. Bishop H. C. Bogh was in charge, and the addresses by the speakers and the solemn musical numbers, num-bers, deeply impressed those attending. attend-ing. Adolph Olsen, principal of the. Bingham schools, read a letter of sympathy from the board of education and the supervising staff of the Jor-don Jor-don district, and E. T. Reid read a poem, especially written for the occasion. oc-casion. Speakers were Pres. Chas.'-S. Hansen of Centerfield, Wm. G. Barton Bar-ton of Ephraim, Clyde Whitlock of Mayfield, and Royal Whitlock of Axtell. The musical program comprised compris-ed several selections by the choir and violin and vocal solos. A gorgeous array of beautiful flowers, flow-ers, among them being some thirty-six thirty-six special designs from clubs and organizations, or-ganizations, banked the grave. Lillian Christiansen was born at Mayfield, November 3, 1903. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Christiansen, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Helen Armstrong, Arm-strong, Ephraim; Mrs. Emmeline Bailey, Sterling; Richard, Escalante, and Udell, William, Harold and Elaine, all of Mayfield. |