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Show Funeral Services Being Held This Afternoon For Mrs. Orpha M. F.Hunt Funeral services are set for this (Thursday) afternoon, Aug. 10, at 6:30 p. m. for Mrs. Orpha Maria Fuller Hunt, 76, who died Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 8, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hunt in Iviris from general ailments incident to age after a prolonged illness. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have cared for her during the past year, during most of which time she has been almost totally blind and much of the time bedfast. Born in Harrisburg, Washington county, Utah, Sept. 11, 1868, she was third in a family of 13 children child-ren born to Revilo and Mary Davis Everett Fuller. When she was a smalS child the family moved to Cottonwood, Arizona. Later she returned and made her home with her grandmother, Orpha Everett, one of the first school teachers in St. George. On Sept. 21, 1880 she married George H. Hunt in the St. George Temple. They made their home in Arizona for several years before be-fore returning to St. George where he died April 28, 1925. Since that time she has retained her home 'n St. George but has frequently made extended - visits in Arizona, returning from the last one a little more than a year ago. Always active in L. D. S. church work, she has served as ward relief re-lief society president, Sunday school teacher, officer in the child-rens' child-rens' primary organization, and has spent much time and money n gathering genealogical data and doing Temple work. . She was a Member of the Manomas Andrus D. U. P. Camp. She was mission- to the Indians for five years, at the Shevwit reservation. Although she was childless, Mrs. Hunt has been well known for her Kindness to both young and old for her capacity to distribute cheerfulness. During the last few years she has written many tributes tri-butes and historical items in verse. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Ad-die Ad-die McDonald of Cottonwood, iz-; and two brothers, Addison Everett Fuller, Phoenix, Ariz., and Hugh Knapp Fuller of New-' Port Beach, Calif. |
