Show THE PASSING OF OFA OFA A fl LOVELY MAIDEN FUNERAL O SERVICES FOR DONNA PRYOR HELD ON ONTI TI THURSDAY SENTIMENTS SENTIMENTS Y EXPRESSED BY PRINCIPAL PAL PAI AND FACULTY TY OF HIGH SCHOOL AND FIRST W WARD RELIEF SOCIETY Thursday afternoon in the First i iWard Ward Tabernacle funeral services were held for the lovely young maiden Donna Donna Donna Don Don- na Pryor who passed from this life Tuesday April 22 after suffering from pneumonia for 10 days Bp F F. F B. B Wood presiding The opening song My Father Knows was rendered by Mrs Violet I Urle Urie Mrs Annette Bettenson Mrs Helen Foster E. E M. M Corry Ray nay Cosslett W W. C. C Macfarlane Kenneth Macfarlane Macfarlane Macfar- Macfar lane lanc accompanied on t the e piano by Mrs Bernella Jones Elder Herbert Webster offered the opening prayer which was followed by bythe bythe bythe the quartet singing Elder Wm V V. Walker in making his address to the gathered relatives J friends and sympathizers of the bereaved be bereaved bereaved be- be family said that t the the he parents parentis of Donna had bad been his close neighbors for years ears and he had learned to love and respect them Donna their lovely daughter will be missed by scores of companions and friends she h has gone to her heavenly home Speaker urged all to live their lives so that that when they come to pass from this life ure they will have the great privilege of meeting their loved ones that have gone before before be be- fore He lie said caid that Bro and Sister Pryor would sometime again meet their beloved daughter Sister Myron Higbee in speaking said in part that she had known the bereaved mother all her life lUe and could only say good of her and her family and because of our long acquaintance felt very keenly the sor rw of this occasion Mrs Higbee said that the bible quotes Apostle Paul as saying haying It is as s well to meet in a house of mourning us 8 in a housa I o a o. o worship She said I feel that the seedy seed dropped dropped drop drop- ped on these occasions wilt will take root in fertile soil soli and refine us I 1 believe beliele Donna has a special work that Is needed needed need need- ed to be done and she has been called home by our Heavenly Fath Father r Ray Cosslett and Kenneth Macfar Macfar- lane sang Unanswered Yet and were followed by Miss Beryl Froyd a member member member mem mem- ber of the High School Faculty who said in fn part I am speaking here to today today today to- to day to represent the teachers and classmates of Donna First I shall read a resolution drawn up by our faculty members and addressed to Mr and Mrs Pryor and family We the principal and faculty of the Junior High School wish to express our deepest deepest deepest deep deep- est sympathy and condolence at this time of bereavement We grieve with you over the loss of this dear lovely girl No one can fill Donnas Donna's place in our school nor in our hearts Donna was the type of student t fRat at is a Joy to every teacher teacher always always prepared always al always always al- al ways willing to do her ber part no matter matter matter mat mat- ter what the task Her lIer grades are high her record is one to be proud of It is hard for us as it is double hard for you to reconcile ourselves to th the i passing of so fine and promising a ayoung ayoung ayoung young girl as Donna But we must console ourselves with ith the fact that such beautiful characters never die their light shines chines on forever their music is the gladness of the world There is no death th I the stars go downTo down downTo 1 To rise upon some other shore And bright In Heavens Heaven's Jewelled Crown They forever m more re It is 15 little I am capable of saying except to give tribute to a lovely Continued on Page 8 81 The Passing Of I IA A Lovely Maiden l Continued from Page 1 young girl who has been taken from our association We as students and teachers at our school can only In a small Email way express our appreciation for our friendship with Donna But Dut we think we have fully realized that friendship especially now she has been taken from us A short time ago the she was a girl with her happy class class- mates But Dut because of or her untimely death we ue are left sadder and a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more thoughtful It was touching to I watch the tho concern held by Donnas Donna's I school companions during her illness i sorrowful to see and it was even more their grief at her death We met with I this young student dally daily and we know it will be hard for us to finish the school year without her in her place in the classroom Even more do we feel sympathy for the parents and sisters of ot Donna I sincerely hope that Donnas Donna's parents will find solace in thoughts of her fine character her sweet temperament her ability and her many friends Elder Samuel Leigh was the tha i next lext ext speaker and said that for the benefit of the young oung friends and companions I of Donna that were present he would explain why we were here on earth He lIe He I said that we have a spirit that lives forever we came from the spirit world to take on a body by special privilege of God when death comes to us hire on earth the body returns to dust from whence it came and the spirit returns returns to God This doctrine is made plain by the Prophet Alma who taught the doctrine of the resurrection I believe that this young lovely girl is happy appy today with her little cousins who were werl such good friends LaDean and Vilate Lead Me Gently Home was sang by Ray Cosslett accompanied by the quartette The following sentiments from the First Ward Relief Society were read Whenever it comes and under whatever whatever whatever what what- ever circumstances or manner we are arc never prepared for the event that must come to us all all Death It Is regarded as one of the mysteries far beyond human understanding and human effort ef effort effort ef- ef fort and light is not great e enough ugh to penetrate the gloom of the shadow of death We usually associate death with the weary the feeble the aged aced We think of them as wanting to go as they approach the end of lifes life's Journey for they feel they have ha begun to lag and they long for rest To them it often brings a merciful relief fr from m lifes life's afflictions But when it comes to the young the beautiful the active it is then we stagger in the presence of deaths death's great mystery And yet the mystery of death is no greater than the mystery of birth We take no er cr leap into the unknown when w we wego wego go from this world than when we came into it Someone said The flooding tide that floats us In returns us home again The parents of Donna have sustained sustain sustain- ed a great a and d seemingly Irreparable loss and the heartfelt sympathy of the officers of the First Ward Relief Society Society Society Soci Soci- ety is extended to them on this oc oc- oc casion Bp Dp F. F B. B Wood occupied a short time extending encouragement and condolences and spoke of the very high roo chat chaiter ter of the departed Donna and the esteem in which she was held as asare asare asare are also the bereaved parents The bishop assured them that the sympathy of the entire community goes out to them in their hour of untimely bereavement The closing song was Come Unto Me Benediction was pronounced by Elder E. E B. B Dalley Dailey |