| Show I 1953 Mother l of The Y Year car Dies Mrs Luella Wakefield Washburn 85 died Thursday of last week at pm of ofa ofa a heart ailment at her home In Orem Mrs Washburn was Utah's Mother of the Year in 1953 She Is the mother of Fred Washburn of Vernal After being named Utah's outstanding mother she went to New York where she won second place In the national mother year mother of year the contest SHE HAD BEEN a school schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher for several years and also a practicing midwife In Inthe inthe the Uintah County area She was born barn In Fountain Green Sanpete County June 15 1877 a daughter of Thom as G and Maria Marla Johnson Wakefield SHE MARRIED Jesse Alv Alvin in Washburn Sept 1896 In Inthe inthe the ManU Manti Temple They lived In the Uintah Basin for 15 years until Mr Washburn accepted a job as principal of the new Seminary In Provo Mr Washburn died In 1951 She was a past president of the Alice Louise Reynolds Fine Arts Club Provo Chap Chap- Chapter ter 12 and had also been act act- lye ive In the Daughters of utah Pioneers SHE IS survived by eight of her eleven children One daughter Mrs John Marga Marga- Margaret ret Marie Castro Valley Calif and seven sons Alvin Verd Orem Jessie le American Fork Don EI El- El Eldon don Salt Lake City Barr Darr Valentine Victor Fred Vernal Roland Pasco Wash and Clinton Woodrow Australia Also S surviving are 32 grand grand- grandchildren children and 26 great great- great grand rand children a brother Clinton ClintonN N Wakefield of Mantl Manti and three sisters Mrs Susa Love Love- Loveless Loveless less Mrs Maud Johnson and Mrs Joseph Fern Menden- Menden Mendenhall Mendenhall hall hall aU all of Salt Lake City Funeral services were con con- conducted ducted Monday at 10 am In Inthe inthe the Der Berg Mortuary Chapel in Provo Burial was in hr the Hun Hun- Huntington City Cemetery tIC Guests over the weekend nt at the home of Mr and Mrs D E Casada were Mr and Mrs Lorry Meyer of Range ly Colo |
