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Show SERVICES SET TODAY FOR MRS. ELLA BIRD Funeral services will be conducted conduct-ed in the MaDleton ward chanel at 2 o'clock today for Mrs. Ella Finch Bird, 52, wife of Richard S. Bird, who died at her home in Mapleton Sunday. She had been in ill health for about two years. Friends may call at the family residence before the services. Burial Bur-ial will be in the Evergreen cemetery, ceme-tery, directed by the C. O. Claudin funeral home. Mrs. Bird was born in Spanish Fork, September 25, 1890, a daughter daugh-ter of Joseph O. and Ruth Roach Finch. She spent her early life in Spanish Fork, attending schools in that city. She taught school five years at Springville, Nephi, and Cedar Fort. She has always been active in church work, having served as president and a counselor in the Mapleton ward Relief Society. She was also a member of the Kolob stake Relief Society board for some time, and she has been a counselor in the Primary organization at Mapleton. She was married to Mr. Bird in the Salt Lake temple, June 21, 1916. Surviving besides her husband are a daughter and two sons, Phyllis Bird of Mapleton, Stanley Bird of Spanish Fork, and Fred Bird, with the U. S. army stationed station-ed in the Hawaiian Islands; also one grandchild; a sister and four brothers, Mrs. Vera F. Sumsion of Spanish Fork, Dr. Harold Finch, I with the U. S. army medical corps in Kansas City, Kans., William R., Frank and Reed Finch, Los Angeles. |