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Show FUNERAL HELD SATURDAY FOR MRSJ1ARTIN Funeral services for Mrs. Martha It. MarUn. whose body was found in Hobble Creek Thursday morning, were held Saturday afternoon- at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cook with Bishop J. Emmett Bird of the First ward in charge. The opening selection, "Day Follows Night," was rendered by Miss Helen Manwaring and I-elia Lisonbee. C. W. Houtss offered .the invocation Harold A'leman the benediction. The speakers, each of whom paid tribute to the life of Mrs. Martin, were Bishops William Wainwright. of the Second ward and J. Emmett Bird. Frank Bjamson sang "My Task." and the closing number was rendered by Helen Manwaring and ! Lelia Lisonbee, who sang. "Oh, It 1 Is Wonderful." The dedicatory prayer at the Evergreen cemetery was offered by J. TI. Manwaring. Mrs. Martin's body was found Thursday mo'xng in Hobble Creek, ! two and one-half blocks east of the I Mendenhall bank in this city, fol-1 fol-1 lowing more than two days of ! searching on the part of reativew. Mrs. Martin left her home in this city shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday Tues-day morning. When her daughter. Flora, came home from school at noon Tuesday, her mother was gone. She assumed that she was visiting with neighbors or relatives, but when she did not return Tuesday evening the daughter made inquiry of relatives, but none of them had seen her. Early Thursday morning some of the relatives of the woman, who recalled re-called that, at different times when near Hobble Creek, which ruiw through Springville. she bad re-mo re-mo rked, ''Doesn't the water make you dizzy when you look at it," asked ask-ed Marshal Wallace Bird to search the stream for the missing woman. Several people living along tho stream had seen Mrs. Martin sometime some-time Tuesday standing on a bridge about three blocks from where her body was found. As they had seen her there many times before, they had paid no particuby attention to her. Starting the search of the stream in the eastern part of the city, Marshal Mar-shal Bird shortly after 0 o'clock Thursday morning came on the body of Mrs. Martin in Hobble Creek immediately im-mediately east of Chester Jenkins' place. Had it not been for the fact that part of her clothing bad caught on a limb of a bush and was waving In the air, the body may not have been noticed, as the water is not f lear at this time. In Failing Health Mrs. Martin, who was born in Springville, May 8, 1808. had been living off and on in Springville. After her marriage to Joseph Mar--tin she had been living most of the time away from Utah. Her husband died 12 nr 14 years agovirr Arizona, since which time Mrs. Martin had been living in different places. She moved to Springville about a year ago from Halfway, Oregou. Since then she bad been in failing health, and was known to have been despondent, despon-dent, at various times. A deep attachment at-tachment is said to have existed between be-tween -the mother and daughter, Flora. Besides Flora, she is survived by another tin lighter, Mrs. May Wolf, of Portland, Ore. She is also survived sur-vived by two brothers and tour sisters, sis-ters, Marvin and John Blanchard, Miss Caroline Blanchard, Mrs. Christie Deal. Mrs. Irene Cook and Mrs. Elizabeth Huntington, .all of Springville. |
