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Show NOTED UTAH WOMAN IS CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Rebecca II: Doolan, Pioneer. Pio-neer. Passes Away in ' This City. ' - At noon today the funeral of Mrs. Rebecca H. Doolan will take placo frcm tho Twonty.sovcnth ward meeting house. After tho services the body will be taken to Provo, the old home, for interment. Mrs. Doolan was born in Brookvillo, Ind., November 10, ISM. She camo to Utah in 1S02. arriving here August 2S. At that timo sho drove an ox team, her mother and her grand mother both being members of the party which started from Farr West and which crosserl tho plains. Sho was married in Sail Lako to John P. Doolan, -just one vear In a day after she arrived hero, the coremon3' being per formed in tho old endowment hoii?o in Teuiplo blick, Daniel IL Wells olli-ck-ling. With her husband, she remove! , to Provo. where sho reni.iim'd until l&H, when thev returned to Salt Lako, tosid-inc tosid-inc at JS2 P street until her death. Five children were born to her as a iv.ijilt of her marriage, three of whom, with her widower, still survive her. The children aro James. Arthur and Joseph Lynne of Salt Lake and Byron II. wi Lbs Angeles. Mrs. Doolan was an ardent woman suffragist long before tho idea, was ai vanced in Utah, and was a delegate to the National Woman Sullragist association associ-ation in Washington in IS 97. Two vears ago she was stricken with paralvsis ami this was followed by a gradual breaking down, until the end camo as stated. With her death u .ood woman, a devoted wife and a loving mother passed awa . The sympathy of a laige number of friemls is boiu expressed ex-pressed to Iho stricken family |