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Show Mrs. Maria Van Leuven Dies At Daughter's Home Here Wed. Night Mrs. Maria Elizabeth Durphey Van Leuven, 88, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Delilah Al- dridge at 9 p.m. Wednesday of complications following a prolonged pro-longed illness. She was injured in a fall at Maple Grove, near Aurora, Utah, last August 13, while attending a family reunion, and has been in poor health since, and bedfast the past seven weeks. Born in Springville, March 31 1852, she was the eldest child of Jabez and Celesta Curtis Durphey, Dur-phey, pioneers from the middle-west middle-west to Utah, living in Springville Cedar City and old Hamilton Fort November 7, 1870, she married Mr. Van Leuven in the old Endowment En-dowment house in Salt Lake City. ' Daniel H. Wells officiating. They resided in Aurora until November, Novem-ber, 1896, when they moved to Old Mexico, living in Dublan, (Continued on page eight) Mrs. Van Leuven Dies (Continued from first page) Morelos, Sonora and other districts dis-tricts before the revolution compelled com-pelled the exodus of United States citizens. They were among the early settlers of the Mt. Trumbull section of Arizona. Here Mr. Van Leuven died October 14, 1919, and Mrs. Van Leuven has since spent most of her time in Aurora with her kinfolks. Funeral services will be held in the south ward chapel at 10 a.m. Friday, with Bp. A. K. Hafen of the east ward directing the program. Burial will be in the Mt. Trumbull cemetery where her husband was buried. A more complete report of her life will be given next week in the News. |