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Show : Pearl B. Dowdle West, 79, for whom services were held Wednesday in Spanish Fork. Services held Vednesday for Pearl West Funeral services were held Wednesday in the Spanish Fork Tenth Ward Chapel for Pearl Beardall Dowdle West, .79, who died May 1, 1967, at the Payson Hospital after a brief illness. Interment was in the Spanish Fork Cemetery. She was born Sept. 25, 1887 in Springville, a daughter of George and Rhoda Bird Beardall. Bear-dall. She received her education educa-tion in the schools here. She was the second child and first daughter in a family of eleven children. She was a dependable de-pendable helper for her parents at home and on the farm. During Dur-ing her earlier life, she worked work-ed for many families in Provo and was always lending assistance assis-tance to her brothers and sisters sis-ters and their families when help was needed. She worked as a cook for a construction company in her younger life. In 1908 she went to Independence Inde-pendence to work for her great grandmother Hailey and other relatives. one m arneu x-usa uuwuie, t March 8, 1914, and they were i later divorced. j Nov. 24, 1939, she married . Joseph D. West in the Salt Lake Temple. They made their ! home on a farm in Palmyra, ! later moving to Spanish Fork, j where she lived alone after her . husband died March 27, 1956. She was active in the Relief j Society in her ward and spent ( many years as a visiting tea- cher. She was a member of the ' Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Survivors include one son, j Max Robert Dowdle, three . grandsons, Orem; one brother and one sister, Owen H. Bear- dall and Mrs. Ella Gatherum of Holladay. |