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Show DEATH CLAIMS WELL KNOWN CHURCH WORKER Mrs. Hannah Bird Mendenhall, 64, wife of Richard L. Mendenhall, and prominent in civic and church activities of Mapleton, died Wednesday Wed-nesday morning at the family residence, res-idence, following a short illness. She was born in Mapleton on July 23, 1882, a daughter of Charles and Abbie Whiting Bird. She spent the greater part of her life at Mapleton where she assisted assist-ed with numerous community and church projects. She was married on May 14, 1902, in the Salt Lake temple. For a number of years before the organization or-ganization of Kolob stake, she was president Of the Utah stake primary board. She served as president of Kolob stake Relief Society for eleven years and prior to that time, was president of the Mapleton ward Relief Society. She has been a genealogical worker for a number of years and was at the time of her death, recorder re-corder of the Whiting family organization. or-ganization. Surviving, besides her husband, are her mother, 85 years of age, seven sons and daughters, Wendell Wen-dell Mendenhall, Stockton, Calif. Arthur Mendenhall, Salt Lake City; Earl B. Mendenhall, San Francisco, Calif.; Mrs. Louise Harmer, Payson; Mrs. Catherine Clements, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Erma Hjorth and Mrs. Hannah Jean Fry, Mapleton; also fifteen grandchildren and six brothers and sisters, Mrs. Hyrum Manwar-ing Manwar-ing and Mrs. Emogene Manwar-ing, Manwar-ing, Rexburg, Ida.; Mrs. Jennie B. Hill, Payson; Elmer W. and Freeman Free-man C. Bird, Mapleton; Merrill W. Bird, Ogden. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted on Sunday at 2 p. m., in the Mapleton ward chapel. Friends may call at the family residence before the services. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery, directed direct-ed by the Valley Mortuary. |
