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Show Former Resident Laid to Rest Here Impressive burial services for Mrs. Hannah Scow Voorhees, a former well known resident of Gunnison, were held at the Gunnison City cemetery Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Preceding Pre-ceding this, funeral services were held at Mayfield at 2 o'clock from the Mayfield chapel for the estimable woman. Mrs. Voorhees passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ross Palmer, Pal-mer, at Milford Thursday of last week, following an illness of eleven weeks. Complications of many troubles trou-bles is given as the cause of the death of Mrs. Voorhees. The body was taken to Mayfield, where it lay in state for a day, and Monday at 2 o'clock the last sad rites were held. Amid a bower of beautiful beauti-ful floral offerings, and under the direction di-rection of Bishop Bogh, an impressive ceremony was given. Loving tributes were paid the one who had been called, call-ed, and words of comfort and sympathy sym-pathy were paid by Hyrum Christensen, Christen-sen, Edward Lee Bunderson and Bishop Bogh of Mayfield, and Hans C. Olsen of Gunnison. Following the opening selection by the quartet, invocation in-vocation was offered by L. P. Jensen. Other musical numbers given at the services were: Selection, quartet; solo, Merrill Whitlock; vocal solo, Mrs. Emily Knighton; trumpet selection, selec-tion, Devon Anderson, and a vocal solo by E. L. Swalberg. Benediction was pronounced by Joe Willardson. Mrs. Voorhees was born at May-field, May-field, May 28, 1876, the daughter of Peter C. and Marie K. Scow, and was 57 years of age at her death. She spent most of her life as a girl at Mayfield. In 1893 she was married to William Voorhees, and since her marriage mar-riage she had lived in Gunnison and at Emery. Some nine years ago she went to Milford, where she lived until her death. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Ross Palmer, and two sons, Lavor and Stanley Voorhees, all of Milford. Four grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive. Three sisters, Mrs. Oscar Nielson and Mrs. Frank Whitlock Whit-lock of Milford, and Mrs. Merrill Anderson An-derson of Orangeville, and three brothers, bro-thers, Peter, Conrad and Clarence Scow, of Mayfield, are left to mourn the loss of Mrs. Voorhees. |