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Show FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY FOR MRS. EMILY HATCH Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed in the First ward chapel Sunday Sun-day afternoon for Mrs. Emily Clegg Hatch, 87, widow of Thad-deus Thad-deus Hatch and a pioneer of Springville, who died at her home Thursday. Burial was under direction of A. T. Wheeler and Son mortuary. Mrs. Hatch was born in Sheffield, Shef-field, England, Jan. 26, 1856, a daughter of William and Sarah Oates Clegg. At the age of six years, she came with her parents to Utah, as converts to the L. D. S. church, and had made her home in Springville since. She had taken an active part in church affairs, having served as president of the Y.L.M.I.A. in early ear-ly years and also as a counselor in the Relief Society in which organization or-ganization she also served as a teacher many years. Her husband died in 1932. She was the mother of ten sons and' daughters with eight living as follows: Mrs. Adele H. Johnson John-son and T. T. Hatch, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Maude H. Benedict, Ogden; Mrs. Roena Stewart, Clearfield; W. T. Hatch, Provo; Mrs. Leelyn Bjarnson, San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Myrtle Conover and Mrs. Estelle Wixom, Springville; also thirty-four grandchildren, thirty-five great -grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza C. Boyer and Mrs. Lillian C. Snow, Springville. |
