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Show FORMER D1XIETITE PASSES , AWAY AT SALT LAKE CITY After an illness of several months, Mrs. Emily S. Bastian, wife of Gear-son Gear-son S. Bastian, former president of Wayne stake, passed peacefully away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Marion J. Stringham, at the Kensington Kensing-ton apartments, Salt Lake City, Sunday Sun-day morning, August 22. Funeral services will be held in the Wasatch ward chapel, Thursday, Aug. 26, at 2 p. m. Friends may view the body at the chapel prior to the services and at the Joseph William Taylor undertaking porlors, 21 south West Temple street, Wednesday from 5 to 9 p. m. Interment will be in Wasatch Lawn cemetery. Emily S. Paxman Bastian, daughter daugh-ter of David Paxman and Elizabeth L. Blunden, was born near London, England, Jan. 29, 1860. With her parents she came to Utah in 18 72. The family settled in Salt Lake, then after a short stay at American Fork, moved to Washington, Utah, which became the family's permanent home. Her parents were devout and active Church members and early in life she became an active worker. She married Gearson S. Bastian in April, 1S85, in the St. George temple, and three years later, a few days after her husband left for a mission to Denmark, she started on a journey of more than 200 miles, by team, witht two small children to make a home on the Horse Valley ranch, Wayne county, far removed from the nearest settlement of Loa. For more than two years alone with her two children she struggled with the labors and chores incidental to pioneer ranch life. On her husband's return he was appointed a counselor to Willis E. Robinson in Loa ward bishopric and later a counselor in the presidency of Wayne stake and afterwards stake president. In the performance of his many and varied labors he was absent ab-sent from home and the ranch much of the time, occasionally for weeks conveying the general authorities of the Church to conferences in the southern part of the state. She not only helped her pioneer husband to reclaim the desert but was a tower of strength to him in the performance of his Church duties and was actively active-ly engaged herself in the Church organizations, or-ganizations, for some time as a member mem-ber of the Relief society stake board. She was of a kind and gentle disposition disposi-tion and ever ready to give help to those suffering or in distress. Her husband was honorably re-released re-released as . president of the Wayne stake in the fall of 1910, when the family removed to Siguard, and later to Ephraim, settling finally on a farm in the vicinity of Salt Lake. While returning from a visit to one of her children in the winter of 19 2 5, she suffered serious injuries in an auto accident on the Santaquin dugway, which brought on the illness that finally resulted in her death. Her husband and five of their nine children survive, G. Marion, Karl M., Woodruff J., Elmer P. Bastian, Mrs. Julia Stringham and Mrs. Rhoda |