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Show Services Held For Primary Founder And Civic Leader Alice Merrill Home, one of Utah's outstanding figures, died last Thursday in Salt Lake City, of a heart ailment, at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Home was a patron of fine arts in Utah for many years, and established the Utah Art institute. She was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Primary Association Associ-ation in 1877. A record of her church and civic works reveal many years in public service. She was .a member of the third state legislature, where she introduced the free scholarships bill which has provided 4 - year tuition scholarships to 8000 persons. per-sons. She wrote poems and stories, and the first art book published in the state, "Handbook of Utah Art." In her church work she was especially active in Relief Society, and was first chairman of their public health and art committees. In 1904 she represented the U. S. National Council of Women and the Relief Society at the international interna-tional women's congress in Berlin. Mrs. Home was born in a log ' (Continued on Page 10) Mrs. Home Dies cabin in Fillmore, a daughter of Clarence and Bathsheba Merrill, early pioneers. Mrs. Ann E. Melville Mel-ville Bishop well recalls the cabin where she was born, and the better home of bricks that the father built later at the south end of Fillmore. As a child Mrs. Home lived some time with her grandparents grand-parents in Salt Lake City, and her parents moved there later. She returned re-turned to Fillmore as a young woman end taught school for a time in the old Millard Academy. Funeral services were held Saturday Sat-urday in Salt Lake City, and as a final gesture to help young people, peo-ple, land following Mrs. Home's wishes, the family asked no flowers. flow-ers. Instead friends may participate partici-pate in the endowment of an Alice Merrill Home scholarship at the University of Utah to aid worthy art students. |