Show i d a Pioneer Mrs H H. H E E. E Blake Dies at 91 in Salt Lake City Mrs lila Ida Blake 91 Monticello Monticello Monticello Monti- Monti cello Utah passed away In a nursing home In Salt Lake City about am a.m. Tuesday J January Jary 25 She had been at atthe atthe atthe the Villa V Nursing Home since January 5 Death t as attributed leel to causes Ino InI In- In I o dont to age ago Her t let husband the latE lato It H E. E Blake former of the San Juan Roc flee j rd d d passed pas ed away In 1910 at atI I tho hC I c hospital ho Ida Barker was born on a n nI I ranch inch In ht Barnet Burnet count county Tex A 1 IT K g 15 1874 She spent her herc c there noel and In n Shak- Shak ford To co county Texas shak-I shak Site She I moved with her parents to a It I mountain ranch 25 miles north of Las Vegas New Mex Mex- l c Mexico ico the summer of 1889 The Tho family made the thc trip In three II I covered wagons wagon two pulled I by horses and amI one by a team of oxen I She married Henry Elwyn I c at Beulah New Mexico I on oc March tarch 18 1896 Thc rho couple con cou Pie pIc lived In Las Vegas New Mexico for a few years cars then moved to Denver Colo In 1 1907 to Green River Utah In tn 1909 to Moab In 1916 and I to lo Monticello l In 1918 where Mie ht the had resided 47 years s ea bothin both bothIn bothIn In In town and on a n ranch four fOUl miles cast east She Sho was official weather observer for the U U. S S. S Government Gov Gov- for 20 years ears She Sho was made registrar of vital statistics for San Juan county north of the thc San Juan river In 1931 1934 a job she held for pearly nearly 30 years ears She also wrote news notes for four different weekly newspapers including The Times Times Independent dent for many many years She is survived by nine nino children sons II II Elwyn Albuquerque Albuquerque Albuquerque Al Al- NM Roy A. A Wheatridge Colo Herbert Spencer Carmichael Calif Clarence Roger Alamogordo NM I. Donald Blake make Monticello Monti- Monti cello and daughters Mrs Ida Westwood of West J Jordan Jord Jord- rd- rd an Utah Mrs Ed Edwin ln Ruth Wilcox Green River Mrs Julia Julla Bailey Phoenix Ariz Mrs lilts Grace Helen Clary of Layton Utah three brothers Charles Barker Barler Santa Fe N N. M Elliott Barker Darker also of Santa Fe and S. S Omar Barker Barker Barker Bar Bar- ker of Las Vegas NM and three sisters Mrs 1 Mattie Mattle Crews of Fountain Colo Mrs Grace B. B Wilson FarmIngton Farmington Farm- Farm Ington NM and Mrs Pearl Hart Grand Junction Also surviving are arc 30 grandchildren grandchild grandchild- ren 55 great grandchildren and two great great grand grand- children Funeral services will be beheld beheld beheld held in the Community Baptist Baptist Baptist Bap Bap- church In Monticello at 1 pm p.m. Friday iday Jan 26 with the tho Rev Hev Robert Beasey neasey In charge with burial in the Grand Valley Cemetery In Moab Arrangements are Under under under un un- der the direction of the Grand Valley V Mortuary |