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Show FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY FOR MRS SUSANNAH BIRD Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed in the Third ward chapel Tuesday Tues-day afternoon for Mrs. Susannah Pennington Bird, 79, widow of Delbert W. Bird, who died Saturday Satur-day evening, at a Provo hospital. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by the Claudin funueral home. Mrs. Bird was born in Kingmoss, Lancashire, England, Oct. 11th, 1864, a daughter of Edward and Catherine Birchell Pennington. She came to the United States with her parents in 1872. The family fam-ily came directly to Utah, and settled set-tled in Springville, where she had lived since. She organized and directed the first choirs in the Third ward and throughout her life had taken prominent part in musical entertainment. enter-tainment. She served as an officer or teacher in practically all of the auxiliary organizations of the church and was a charter mem-ebr mem-ebr of the Springville camp D.U.P. Mrs. Bird was known as a fine seamstress and for manv vears Mrs. Isabel B. Brown of Lehi, and Mrs. Anna B. Harward of Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Wyo., also a grandson, Delbert Del-bert R. Hale, whom she helped rear and who is now with the U. S. Intelligence, Cairo, Egypt; six other grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Annie Kindred of Springville. 1 she engaged in the sewing of burial bur-ial clothes, and also did considerable consider-able other sewing. Her husband, to whom she was married in the Manti temple in December, 1889, died Sept. '22, 1922. . Surviving are two daughters, |