Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-12 | Page 16 | Influenza Takes Young Wife Mrs. R. H. Butterfield Dies

INFLUENZA TAKES YOUNG WIFE MRS. R. H. BUTTERFIELD DIES MRS. HAZEL OSWAXD BUTTERFIELD, prominent Salt Lake society i woman, news of whoso death from influenza yesterday has shocked her I II lwg circle of friends and acquaintances. Succumbs at Her Home on University Street After Six Days' Illness. PXEUMXIA. following influenza, claimed one of Salt Lake's most prominent and popular young society soci-ety women, Mrs. Robert II. But-terfiold, But-terfiold, who died at her home on University Uni-versity street, yesterday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock. Mrs. Butterfleld had tieen ill only six clays and her death came as a shock to hir family and friends. Before her marriage three years ago, Mrs. Butterfield was Miss Hael Eger-ton Eger-ton Oswald, only child of Mrs. F. L. Oswald. She was born in Nebraska twenty-six years ago, but came to Salt Lake with her parents when only three years of age, and had made Iter home here ever since. Educated at Rowland Hall and the University of Utah, Mrs. Butterfield was taken abroad by her mother for special training, train-ing, aud with extensive travel acquired broad culture, grasped by an unusually keen mind. Her simplicity and gra-ciousness gra-ciousness of manner, coupled with a charming personality, endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Surviving Mrs. Butterfield, besides her husband and mother, is a two-year-old son, Robert H. Butterfield, Jr. The funeral will take place Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon at 3 o'clock at Mt. Olivet cemetery.