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Show Funeral Services Held Here Tuesday For Mrs. Hortense B. Dunn Funeral services for Mrs. Hortense Hor-tense Benson Dunn, 25, former St. George resident, were held in the St. George stake Tabernacle Tuesday, July 3, at 6:30 p.m., with Bp. James Andrus of the West ward L D S bishopric conducting. con-ducting. Mrs. Dunn, who was the wife of Harold L. Dunn of Burl-ingame, Burl-ingame, Calif., died Thursday morning, June 28, at the Children's Child-ren's hospital in San Francisco, following childbirth. Mrs. Mae Pace was in charge of the music which included two quartets, "Through Deepening Trials," and "Sometime We'll Understand," by Mrs. W. E. Baker, Bak-er, Mrs. Gerald Blake, Ray Garner Gar-ner and Grant Harris; vocal solo by special request, "I Love You Truly" by Mrs. M. G. Jackson; trio, "One Fleeting Hour" by Mrs. LaVell Cottam, Mrs. Herbert Her-bert Pitchforth and Mrs. Ralph Lauper; and cello solo, also by special request ."Rosary" by William Wil-liam Roth of San Francisco. Prelude Pre-lude and Postlude were by Mrs. Pace and Mr. Roth. First speaker was W. O. Bent-ley Bent-ley who told of his long association associa-tion with the Benson family as close neighbor and friend while they were in St. George, - and gave a brief sketch of the life of Mrs. Dunn, paying tribute to' the Benson family and their Dixie pioneer ancestry. Lloyd Whitlock, brother-in-law of Mrs. Dunn, praised the Ben-sons Ben-sons for their genuine affection and devotion to each other, eulogizing eulo-gizing Mr. Dunn as a man of high standards, pleasing companionship, compan-ionship, kindness, sincerity and friendliness, and told intimately of his association with the family and of Mrs. Dunn's affability, rich personality and her joy in contemplating con-templating motherhood. Pres. Harold S. Snow, who was (Continued on page five) Dunn Funeral (Continued from first page) an intimate friend of the family and teacher of Mrs. Dunn, said he knew she loved and prized life and lived richly the years of her earth's span. He urged sincere sin-cere prayer as the source of comfort, com-fort, peace and understanding in times of sorrow. Mrs. Roxey Romney read an intimate personal tribute from a teacher, Miss Linna Snow of Pine Valley, which reviewed briefly the lives of Mrs. Dunn and the group of associates who attended : her English classes at Dixie junior jun-ior college. Prayers were by II. Val Hafen and Hp. Andrew McArthur. Vernon Ver-non Worthen of the stake presidency presi-dency dedicated the grave in the J.St. George City cemetery. Born in St. George July 7, 1919 !Mrs. Dunn was a daughter of John C. and Bessie Macfarlane Benson. She had her schooling in St. George, graduating from the lower division of Dixie junior college before moving with her parents to Salt Lake City, where she lived for three years. On March 24, 1939, she was married to Harold L. Dunn in Reno, Nevada. They lived in Salt Lake City until July, 1944, when they moved to Burlingame, Calif., where they have since made their home. Surviving besides her husband and infant daughter, Elizabeth, are her parents, three brothers and two sisters. W. Clark Benson, Roosevelt; Menz.ies M. Benson. Beaver; Howard Benson. Oak Ridge. Tenn.; Mrs. Lloyd C.Whit-lock, C.Whit-lock, Provo, and Miss Helen Benson, Ben-son, with the WAVES at Pensacola, Pensa-cola, Fla., and her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Adams Macfarlane of Ogden. |