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Show Services today, 2 p.m., for Mrs. Beth Gurr f V Funeral services are being jl held today (Thursday) at 2 p.m., at Wheeler Mortuary Chapel, for Mrs. Beth James Gurr, 77, who died Monday, January 3, 1966, at a Provo hospital, following a fall at the family residence 315 South ,e Canyon Avenue. Friends may call at the mor-tuary mor-tuary before the services. Bur- :. ial will be in the Provo City , ; Cemetery. i Mrs. Gurr was born Nov. 13, F" 1888, in Diez, Chihuahua, Mex- ? ico, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Bloomfield James. On May 20, 1908, she mar- e ried Wallace Marsh Gurr in Pacheco, Chihuahua, Mexico, ' and the ceremony was later ;" solenmnized in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. She was active in the LDS l" Church, having worked iin the Primary, Sunday School and Relief Society organizations. She had done considerable gen- ,n (continued on back page col. 5) J,a e Services for Mrs Gurr (continued from page one) ealogical research and had worked for 12 years as an ordinance or-dinance worker in the Salt Lake City Temple. They made their home for a time at Ma-pleton. Ma-pleton. Survivors include her husband, hus-band, Springville; eight sons and daughters: Wallace Gurr, Eugene Gurr, and Mrs. Omar (La Von) Hansen, all of Springville; Spring-ville; Mrs. Lyman (Margaret) Hamlin, Payson; Mrs. Virgil (Delia) Baum, Spanish Fork; Mrs. David O. (Loa) MacKay. Salt Lake City; Mrs. Austin (Wanda) Barney, Cgden; Mrs. Dester (Beth) Wilberg, Orem. Also surviving are 38 grandchildren, grand-children, 29 great grandchildren; grandchild-ren; and 14 brothers and sisters: sis-ters: Mrs. Oscar Hurst, Blan-ding; Blan-ding; Joseph James, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Jonathan Ostler. Provo; Mrs. Harold Christen-sen, Christen-sen, Pocatello, Ida.; Mrs. Lloyd Engel, Provo; Mrs. Joseph Porter, Por-ter, Stockton, Calif.; Mrs. Thomas Merrill, Phoenix, Arizona; Ar-izona; William James, Ogden; Mr. James Nelson, St. George; Emer James, Farmington. N. M ; Abinadi James, Cottonwood, Cotton-wood, Ariz.; Mrs. Robert Galla-ger, Galla-ger, and Mrs. Charles Bond, both of Phoenix, Ariz.; and Robert L. James, Palestine. |