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Show Funeral Services Held Here Monday For Mrs. Alice Paxman Lund w Funeral services were held in the St. George south ward chapel at 2 p.m. Monday for Mrs. Alice Paxman Lund, 50, wife of Louis R. Lund of Marysvale. Mrs. Lund died at their Marysvale home on Saturday of a heart attack. She had received minor injuries from a highway accident three weeks earlier while traveling from Marysvale to visit her daughter, Mrs. Wayne Davis at Panguitch, but had recovered from that according ac-cording to attending physicians. Arthur Cottom, counselor in the St. George east ward bishopric, was in charge of the funeral services. ser-vices. The rostrum was banked with beautiful floral tributes and the building was crowded with friends and relatives, many coming com-ing from elsewhere. Included in the musical numbers num-bers were trios, "If With All Your Hearts" and "Just For Today" by Melba Baker, Alice Cannon and Mary Lou Wells, accompanied by Mae A. Pace; a violin selection, "Going Home" by Prof. Earl J. Bleak, accompanied by Mrs. Bleak and pipe organ solo, "Nocturne" by Mrs. Mae A. Pace. Speakers were W. O. Bent ley, (Continued on page eight) Mrs. Louis Lund Death (Continued from first page' former stake president and lifelong life-long friend of the Lunds; John Tanner,, neighbor and family friends from Mrs. Lund's childhood home of Washington; Bp. Edward C. Hansen of Marysvale ward, and Mrs. Madge M. Cannon, former for-mer president of the St. George stake primary board to which Mrs. Lund was a member. All paid tribute to Mrs. Lund's gentility, brilliant mentallity and rich personality; of her devotion to her family, her fidelity and her continuous religious activities in the L.D.S. church. She was working work-ing in the Marysvale primary board at the time of her death, and the attendance of associates from that place bespoke the friends made by the family during the past three years residence at that place. Prayers were by Bp. A. K. Hafen of the east ward and counselor in the stake presidency, Wm, H. Prince. Burial was in the St. George city cemetery with William Lund of Enterprise ward, dedicating the grave. Born in Washington April 9, 1889, Mrs. Lund was the eldest daughter of the late Arthur A. and Minnie Westover Paxman. She received her district schooling there and graduated from the St. George high school, and taught in Washington county three years. She also attended the B.Y.U. and U. of U. summer courses. June 9, 1911, she was married, in the St. George Temple to Louis R. Lund, son of Robert C. and Mary Romney Lund. After their marriage they lived in Modena, and various other places where Mr. Lund's work took him for several years, then returned to make their home in St. George. Developing a heart ailment, the family spent four years in California Cali-fornia in the interest of Mrs. Lund's recovery. Her health has been remarkably good for the past three years. Surviving besides her husband are their five children, Mrs. Howard Woodbury of Los Angeles; Louis Robert Lund Jr., of Moapa; Mrs. Wayne Davis, of Panguitch; LaRae and Mary Lund of Marysvale; Marys-vale; her mother, Mrs. Minnie Paxman, three sisters and four brothers, the latter including Arthur Paxman of St. George; Mrs. Hattie Webb, of Cedar City; Mrs. Clark Chadbum, - of Elko, Nev.; Mrs. Minnie Vincent and Haven, Golden and Lynn Paxman, all of Washington, also one grandchild. |