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Show APOPLEXY ENDS LIFE OF JULIA CHRISTENSEN Brief but impressive funeral ser-vlpes ser-vlpes were held for Miss Julia. Chris-sen Chris-sen yesterday at 1 p. m. in the Presbyterian Pres-byterian chapel, under the direction of Rev. G. W. Martin of Manti who also preached with tender feeling the funeral sermon, in which he gave the lesson of submission to the will of God in the order of life, He further spoke of the departed as having led a quiet, home life that gave her opportunity oppor-tunity for communion in thought with.concerns of a better life. Joseph Christenson preceded the sermon with brief remarks touching on the hope that assurance of afterlife after-life association brings The funeral was quite largely attended at-tended and the singing by a, quartet under the direction of R. C. Swalberg comprised appropriate selections. Miss Christenson suffered an apo-( plectic stroke from which she never regained consciousness, last Friday afternoon and died Sunday following. Feb. 27. Deceased was born in Gunnison Gun-nison June 8, 1870, the daughter ol William and Anna S. Christensen. Her father was brother to the late Herman J. Christensen. Her parents were among the first to settle in Gunnison Gun-nison valley coming here from Mau-tl. Mau-tl. Surviving Miss Christensen are two brothers and five sisters, Benja-man. Benja-man. Reuben, Mrs. P. A. Peterson and Mrs. James S. Baxter of this city; Mrs. M. E. Codey of Butte, Montana; and Mrs. J. W. Schofield of Watson, Wyoming. |