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Show Irs. Catherine Cheney es Here Tuesday; Funeral Services Today Catherine Mansel H a m b 1 i n !heney, (Aunt Kate) to so many hom she has nursed, died at her ome here at 8 p.m. Tuesday rening at the age of 77. She as stricken with influenza on hristmas Day and has been bed-ist bed-ist since, complications following ;ing the immediate cause of jath. Her brother, William 'aynes Hamblin of Roosevelt, was otified immediately and has been ith her since December 28. A daughter of Edwin and Han-ah Han-ah M. Cook Hamblin, she was orn in Pinto, Utah, November , 1861. Ten years later the family loved to Clover Valley and lived jr several years, before going to alt Lake City, where they re-ided re-ided one year then went to .axburg, Idaho. From here they 'ent to Victor and took up a 140 ere homestead, remaining there it 20 years. During these years he took a course in home nurs-lg, nurs-lg, while caring for her invalid lother, and made this her profes-ion. profes-ion. Because of her mother's con-tant con-tant illness from the time she ras a young woman, this girl had (Continued on page four) Catherine Cheney Death (Continued from first page) full care of the family and was devoted to them. After her mother's death she continued to care for her aging father and moved to St. George with him in 1905, where she did nursing of the sick while he worked in the Temple. She returned to Carey, Idaho, for one year to look after the family of her dead sister and brought one neice, Velma Edwards, home with her to rear. On February 14, 1921, she married mar-ried David Cheney of Rexburg, Idaho. They made their home in St. George with her father who died here January 12, 1925. Her husband died a year later, November No-vember 11, 1926. She again resumed re-sumed nursing until her own health failed about 1930. During the many years in which she practiced nursing Catherine Cheney gave her services willingly to people who needed help regardless re-gardless of their ability to pay for her services. Surviving besides her brother, William Haynes Hamblin of Roosevelt, are two sisters, Mrs. Hannah Logan of Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Mary Ellen Johnson of Victor, Vic-tor, Idaho. There are also many neices and nephews and one stepson, step-son, Wayne Cheney of Rexburg. Mrs. William Hamblin and Mr. and Mrs. James Hamblin and child arrived early Tuesday from Roosevelt and with her brother, her step-son and Mr. and Mrs. James Wulffenstein, were with her at her death. Funeral services are being held today (Thursday) in the south ward chapel under the direction of the west ward bishopric. |
