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Show Funeral Services Held Here May 19 For Mrs. Mary Perkins Bishop Wilford Schmutz of St. George East ward conducted the funeral services for Mrs. Mary Adeline Lawson Perkins, Saturday, Satur-day, May 19, at 6 p. m. in the St. George stake tabernacle. Mrs. J. L. Pulsipher presided at the organ. There were many floral tributes. Music numbers were a vocal duet, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" Some-where" by Mrs. Emma Little and "Face To Face With Chirst, My Savior," Mrs, M. G. Jackson; violin duet, "One Fleeting Hour" by Dawn Andrus and Josephine Jones, accompanied by Renee Lund; and vocal duet, "God Moves In A Mysterious Way" by Mr. and Mrs. Pratt Miles, Mrs. Pulsipher Pulsi-pher accompanying. Walter A. Pace, who had known Mrs. Perkins many years as a neighbor and Temple worker, told of the more than 50,000 proxy baptisms she has done on her own and other genealogical records, as well as endowment work for many thousands more. He paid tribute to her as a woman of great sincerity, unusual kindness and exceptional faith and human understanding. W. G. Hopkins sermonized on the eternity of life, and Bishop Schmutz eulogized Mrs. Perkins for her frugality, her hand craft art, and her effort to be self-sustaining. self-sustaining. He also read a prayer which she wrote recently. During the closing months of her life, Mrs. Perkins made several sev-eral articles in hair goods, an art in which she was skilled. Prayers were by Emil Neiderer and Henry F. Baker. The grave in the St. George City cemetery was dedicated by George E. Miles. Preceding the services, Mrs. Perkins body was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Dennett, where many friends and neighbors called. Mrs. Dennett, who is her niece, has been as a daughter to Mrs. Perkins for many years. |
