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Show Large Audience Attends Funeral Services For Mrs. Rhoda Cannon A large audience crowded the" St. George stake tabernacle on Friday, Fri-day, May 25, at 4 p.m. for the funeral services honoring Mrs. Rhoda Ann Knell Cannon, 87. Bp. Andrew McArthur conducted the services. Mrs. Cannon died Wednesday, May 25, at 4 a. m. of general ailments of age, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.- Joseph W. Webb in Hurricane, where she had spent the winter. She had been bedfast ten weeks at the time of her death. Preliminary and concluding organ or-gan music at the service was by Mrs. Lucille Pitchforth, who accompanied ac-companied the vocal duet, "In The Garden," by Mrs. Mack ' Jackson and Mrs. Andrew McArthur; Mc-Arthur; solo "Face To Face With Jesus," Mrs. Jackson; violin solo, Mrs. Irene Everett, and vocal solo, "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" by Vernon Worthen. Speakers were George L. Whitney Whit-ney of Hurricane, Albert E. Miller Mil-ler and Bishop McArthur of St. George. All three paid tribute to the excellent life of Mrs. Cannon, her strict adherence to the teachings teach-ings of her church; her ability, industry, sincerity and many other salient virtues as wife, mother, neighbor and friend. Her large (Continued on page three) Mrs. Cannon Funeral (Continued from first page) family of good citizens was cited as evidence of her good example and teachings. Prayers were by George F. Whitehead and W. O. Bentley and Pres. H. S. Snow dedicated the grave in the city cemetery. There were many floral tributes. Born In Salt Lake Born May 7, 1S58, in Salt Lake City, she was a daughter of Robert Rob-ert and Mary Crook Eagles Knell. Mrs. Eagles and her first husband Elias Eagles, joined the LDS church in England and came to America with early converts, settling set-tling in Burlington, Iowa. Here Mr. Eagles deserted his wife and three small daughters and returned return-ed to Australia. Later one of the children died, and with the other two, Mrs. Eagles came to Salt Lake City where she married Robert Knell. Rhoda Ann was their second child. The Knells moved to Pinto in 1S61. Rhoda attended school in Pinto and later had a year of advanced schooling in Beaver. As a young girl she learned many arts and crafts of pioneering, including soap and cheese making, mak-ing, candle moulding, carding, spinning and dying wool and cotton for weaving. Her art is expressed in a beautiful wreath of human hair flowers which is now in the exhibit at the Mc-Quarrie Mc-Quarrie memorial hall. On Feb. 14, 1877 she came to St. George with her father and sister, Sue to work in the Temple, which had been completed a month earlier. On June 20 of that year she became the third wife of David H. Cannon, under the order of plural marriage practiced pract-iced at that time, and remained to make her home in St. George. She was mother of 11 children, and reared two grandchildren, whose mother died when they were small. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Joseph W. Webb of Hurricane; Hurri-cane; Mrs. Milton Burgess of St. I George; six sons, XV. Woodruff WaJter, Vernon, and Harold Cannon, Can-non, all of St. George; Douglas Cannon of Tremonton; and Earl Cannon of Santa Monica; 25 grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. She also had the love and respect of the children of her husband's two other families. |
