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Show Early Settler of Lindon Dies Mrs. Rebecca Holman Tomlinson widow of the late George Tomlinson died Monday of Asthma after suffering suf-fering thirty-five years with the disease. She passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hazel Fryer. She was born in Pleasant Grove January 17, 1860, and lived in this vicinity all her life. She married George Tomlinson November 5, 1884, a year later they purchased property in Lindon, then known as 'the basin', and built a one roomed house. Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson planted trees and grew the finest berries and fruit and later built a fine home. Mrs. Tomlinson has worked hard, all of her life. Her fine quilts and needle work will be appreciated by her children chil-dren for many years. Although a great sufferer her fingers were always al-ways busy. She completed a beautiful beau-tiful garden quilt just five days before be-fore her death. For many years she was a Relief Society teacher in the Lindon ward. Surviving are three sons, Clifford, Reuben and Ren Tomlinson and two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Fryer and Mrs. Vera Parks, also two brothers and a sister John C. Holman, Santa-quin; Santa-quin; Benjamin Holman, Pleasant Grove, and Mrs. Maria Greene Pleas-,ant Pleas-,ant Grove. Twenty-four grandchildren grandchil-dren and seven great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services are being held Thursday as we go to press. Interment Inter-ment will be in Pleasant Grove cemetery. |