| Show RM or la ito sa vu 0 didieg funeral services for aunt myrtle palmer 84 well known san juan cownty pioneer were held friday afternoon at the blanding church they were under the direction of her grandson bishop wm ervin palmer mrs atas palmer died at her home tuesday day evening following a long illness A large crowd of relatives and friends attended the service for aunt myrtle the prayers were offered by grandsons lawrence palmer and james palmer A sketch of her 1 life ife was given by bishop palmer and talks were given by grandson richards sellars brother david black and albert lyman the choir sang sometime somewhere with lucy harris and vernon rowley sing singing ing the second and third verse as a duet and beautiful home allie adams and bud nielson sang in the garden and marnie mamie adams played oh my father as an organ solo the grave was dedicated by a son in law charles L sipe sip aunt myrtle as she was fondly called by all who new her was born july 20 1865 1665 at circleville Cir cleville piute diute county utah the daughter of william morley and maria hansen black she was the third of their ten children her life was not one of ease and she learned when very young to shear sheep continued on page 7 continued from page 1 4 te the wool spin yarn yam and weave 0 clothes for her younger brothers and sisters her family moved to st george when she was quite young and she started doing work in the st george temple when she was 13 and continued most of the time until she was married to james william palmer dec 7 1881 at the age of sixteen they moved immediately to Or derville and the bride was given the job of working in the kitchen A year later her first child william palmer was borri born the me second child was born after the little family had moved to snowflake arizona they moved again to old mexico in the year 1888 it was while she was living there that aunt myrtle took a nursing course from a woman doctor and immediately started her carrer as a midwife she re cleved the promise at that time that if she would always be humble and prayerful that she would be blessed in her work she was very greatly blessed too for of the babies she brought into the world she lost only two babies and not a single mother her pay for her work consisted of anything that anyone was able to give at the time in 1912 she was driven out of mexico with many of our other blanding people and was not permitted to go back to get her valuables or the necessities of life at this time aunt myrtle and her smaller children settled in bluff where they remained for five years during this time she continued with her nursing in 1917 she moved to blanding where she has lived ever since aunt myrtle palmer is the mother of 12 children and the following nine survive her rachea sellars california ellis palmer provo chloe nelson tucson arizona john mrs ida nielson joseph mrs viola sipe guy and he K ah th all of blanding she is al alTair by 73 grandchildren ana androe allm great grandchildren mrs palmer came from a large faithful family her father joined the L D S chudich in the early days of salt lake he married 5 wives and was the father to 20 boys and 20 girls his posterity now numbers over 2700 aunt myrtle and two of her sisters mary ann and eva were all married ried to james william palmer mary ann and mr palmer died a number of years ago but aunt eva is still living surrounded by M m many of her children here in blanding eding yding twelve years ago in 1937 aunt myrtle retired from her nursing eight years ago her health failed and for the past three years she has been bedfast most of the time her sweet spirit kindness and un fg g service made her a favor brever brever she went |
