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Show Funeral Services Held Tuesday for Edna Franklin Funeral services for Edna! Franklin were held in the St. George Stake Tablernacle at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon under the di- rection of Bishop Harold S. Snow of the South Ward. I A vocal solo, "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go, Dear Lord."i was given by Karl E. Fordham. The opening prayer was offer- j ed by Joseph T. Atkin, Sr. A vocal duet, "The Lord is My Shepherd," by Miss Una Pickett Pick-ett and Mrs. Josephine Spills-j bury. Miss Mabel Jarvis told of her long association with the Frank-1 lin family. Of their arrival here I a number of years ago and of j their kindness to people in need i when they lived on the Arizona Strip. Miss Jarvis related incidents inci-dents showing the friendliness and kindliness of this family and told of her visits to Edna at the hospital and of her attitude toward death. "Edna," said Miss Jarvis, "was very seriously ill in a hospital at San Bernardino, California a few months ago and was not expected to live. She did get welL enough to come to St. George a month later to be with her mother in her last illness ill-ness and to attend funeral services. ser-vices. She always felt that her time to go was then but that the Lord permitted her to live long enough to lay her "mother away." In closing Miss Jarvis read a beautiful poem, "Eternal Friendship." by Edgar A. Guest and paid tribute to Mr. Ferguson, Fergu-son, her stepfather and told of his kindliness to them. Patriarch George W, Worthen expressed his sympathy to the family bereaved. He stated, that Edna was a wonderful character to care for the people she had when they lived on the Arizona Strip and to be kind and hospi-(Continued hospi-(Continued on last page) EDNA FRANKLIN (Continued from first page) table to them. "She must have been active in the spirit world to be permitted to come to this eaith and take on a body and must have completed well her work there," said Mr. Worthen. He then quoted from the scriptures scrip-tures regarding the resurrection of the dead, the reward promised prom-ised those who fill missions of worthiness here and talked on the judgment and stated that Edna would be rewarded for the good she has done here. Bishop Snow told of the services ser-vices which were held for Edna's mother and of the things that were said there. He mentioned the kindliness of Mr. Ferguson to Edna and to Francis and Buddy. "These are honest people peo-ple and good people and I pray that the Lord will bless them in their sorrow," said Bishop Snow. A vocal duet, "Rock of Ages," was sung by Mrs. Spillsbury and Miss Pickett and the closing prayer was offered by Elder Joseph Jo-seph Alsop. Interment was made in the city cemetery. Edna, eldest child of E. B. and Winnifred Devine Franklin was born at Grand Junction, Colorado, Col-orado, June 15th, 1902. At the age of nine she came with her parents to this part of the country coun-try making their home at Wolf Hole, Arizona, where Mr. Franklin Frank-lin was employed by Preston Nutter, Nut-ter, and later by the State of Arizona. She received some of her schooling at the Woodward School, and some at the schools on the Arizona strip, the family maintaining their home at Wolf Hole until the fall of 19 2 6. Edna grsw up in an atmosphere of wholesome hospitality, for their home at Wolf Hole was the frequent fre-quent scene of kindnesses shown to cattle men, wood haulers and others who during storms, or because be-cause of accidents or injuries came to them for help. She learned early the meaning of service and there are many who could tell of her hurried trips into St. . George to bring an injured in-jured person or to get the word to physicians or carry needed medicine or other necessities to those who were suffering. She was almost without fear and knew every trail of the Arizona Strip country. She was by nature na-ture inclined to be reserved and only those who came in actual contact with the family knew of their generous and frequent kindnesses. kind-nesses. Early in 19 2 4 the family purchased pur-chased a home in St. George, because be-cause of the failing health of Mr. Franklin. In the fall of 192 6, they definitely moved in from Wolf Hole, going to Las Vegas in November of that year, where Mr. Franklin passed away January Jan-uary 1, 1927. Since that time the family has lived in St. George. During January of this year Edna was stricken while traveling in California and underwent un-derwent a major operation in San Bernardino, where her mother mo-ther joined her for several weeks. ! Soon after Mrs. Franklin's return re-turn to this city she was stricken with her final illness, Edna returning re-turning in May, though still far from well herself, to care for I her mother who passed away late in June, and whom Edna has followed in less than three months Surviving are her sister Francis aged 14, brother Edward B., Jr. aged 11, and step father I'inry Ferguson, besides relatives rela-tives in Texas and Oregon. |