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Show ' . J Funeral Services Held Wed. for Mrs. Sarah Loynds Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Fourth-Tenth ward chapel for Mrs. Sarah A. Loynds, 83, who died Sunday in a Provo hospital hospi-tal of a short illness. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery directed by Wheeler Mortuary. Mrs. Loynds was born in Atherton, Lancashire, England, the only child of John and Amelia Hilton Briggs. She came to this country alone at the age of 18, her mother having hav-ing died shortly after her father, fath-er, who had come to Utah-earlier, sent for them. Her father (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) s Sarah A. Loynds for oi services were conduc-' conduc-' here Wednesday. Funeral Services Held For Mrs. Sarah Loynds (Continued from Page One.) met her in Salt Lake and they returned to Fairview to make a home. She was married to Joseph Loynds April 19, 1899 in the Manti LDS Temple and they made their home in Sprmg-ville. Sprmg-ville. Her husband, who become be-come the first bishop of the Fourth ward, died in 1916. Mrs. Loynds had always been active in church work, taking-part taking-part in the various auxiliary organizations in her earlier life. She was a Relief Society , teacher 48 years. For the last few years, she had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Dean (Beth) Prothero of this city. Four of her six daughters survive her including besides Mrs Prothero, Mrs. Gladys Harrison of the USU faculty, Logan; Mrs. George (Sarah) Kendall, Heber City; Mrs. William Wil-liam (Alice) Brown, Copperton. Mrs. Loynds also reared a granddaughter, M r s. Glenn (Josephine Ekker) Tolley of Springville. There are ten other grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren. |
