OCR Text |
Show Mrs. Katherine G. Sheffield, who died Wednesday at a Provo hospital of complica tions following surgery. Rites pending for prominent civic worker Katherine Grow Sheffield, 51, wife of Erwin L. Sheffield, LDS Seminary principal,., died Wednesday morning, at the Utah Valley Hospital of complications com-plications following major surgery. sur-gery. She entered the hospital July 19. Prominent church, club and civic worker, she was librarian librar-ian at the Junior high school the past year. Funeral arrangements are pending word from a son Jimmy Jim-my who left recently on a youth tour with seminary students stu-dents to see the Cumorah pageant pa-geant in New York. Efforts were being made Wednesday to contact the bus on which he was riding believed to be at St. Augustine, Fla. Funeral arrangements will be under the Sixth ward bishopric bish-opric and Wheeler Mortuary. Mrs. Sheffield was born in Claresholm. Alherta Canada February 26, 1909, a daughter of David H. and Mary Lof-gran Lof-gran Grow. She attended schools in Canada and graduated gradua-ted from the Brigham Young University in 1934, being prominent pro-minent in dramatic art and debating de-bating at the university. She taught school before her marriage in Canada and also at the Lincoln high, Orem and in 1945-46 taught freshman English at the BYU. She was president of the Primary organization in Canada Can-ada at the age of 18, being one of the youngest primary organization organ-ization presidents in the church. Throughout her life she has served in various auxiliary organizations or-ganizations as a teacher and officer and also on stake boards of Relief Society and the MIA. At the time of her death, she was teacher trainer in the Sixth ward and a member of the Alpha Beta federated club. She was married to Mr. Sheffield Shef-field of Kaysville, June 18, 1936 in the Salt Lake Temple. Tem-ple. They lived at Fillmore three years and also at Delta two years before moving to Springvilie in 1943. Surviving besides her husband, hus-band, are five sons and daughters: daugh-ters: Mrs. Robert (Fay) Pen-nock Pen-nock of Blackfoot, Ida.; Mrs. Phil (Nan) Harrison of Provo; Laurie, Jim and John of Springvilie; also three grandchildren; grand-children; two brothers and a sister, Mrs. Fay Pitcher of Edmonton, Canada; Dr. Stewart Stew-art L. Grow and D. Spencer Grow of Provo. |