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Show ' r I - : i ; - : - I Curtain Call Viola MacFarlane Dies In Salt Lake I Viola Pratt Gillette MacFarlane, MacFar-lane, 84, 1415 Main St., Bountiful, a Broadway actress of the 1920s and 1930s, died in Salt Lake City Sunday evening. Of her immediate family her only survivor is a sister, Mrs. George D.. Bergener, Flushing, N. Y., also a well-known actress. She was a granddaughter of pioneer pio-neer leaders, Orson Pratt and Charles C. Rich, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mrs. McFarlane was born in Salt Lake City, Oct. 7, 1871, to Milando M. and Elizabeth Rich Pratt. She was a student of Evan Stephens, former director of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, and she taught in the University of Deseret, now University of Utah. She spent more than 10 years in New York music circles and her manager of that time, George D. Pyper, gave her prominent mention in a book, "Romance of An Old Playhouse." In Bountiful, Mrs. MacFarlane had been active in music circles and was a former president of the Bountiful Arts Guild. A resident of Bountiful the past 17 years, she was active in the Sagamore Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and at the time of -her death was a member and past vice president of the Emeritus Club of the University of Utah. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 12:30 p. m. in Bountiful with Bishop Lewis Call officiating. Interment was in the Salt Lake City cemetery. |