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Show MRS. REBECCA E. LITTLE IS CALLED BY DEATH Salt Lake friends will bo greatly shocked to loarn of the death of Mrs. Bebccca E. Little, who passed away Saturdny evening, of bronchial pneumonia. pneu-monia. Mrs. Little was born August 12, 1S52, at Church Farm. She was the daughter of Llewellyn and Cathrino Mantle. In June, 1882, she was married mar-ried to Feramorz Little, and two children chil-dren resulted from tho union Mrs. Walter I. Wilding and Mrs. Frank C. Moyle. Fow women of Utah have been moro closely allied with educational work thnn "had Mrs. Little. She was an early graduate of the normal courso of tho University of Utah. Taking up teaching as a profession, she lost no interest in her own private study, and many years later, after the death of her husband, she took the degree of Bachelor of Science at the state uui-ycrsit', uui-ycrsit', and was mado a regent of that institution bv tho state's first governor, gover-nor, Ucbcr M. Wells. Ever since sho had been alive to early educational movements in Utah, though at times ill health prevented her from performing as active a work as she would havo liked. Sho was a patron of the National Council of Women and attended several of their sessions, being but once an official delegate. She also was a member mem-ber of tho general board o the State Belief society, and first counselor of the Ensign "stake presidency of the Bame society. Tho funeral will be from the family residence 164 East First South street, at 12 o'clock Tuesda', June 3. |