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Show Final Rites Held For Cedar City Matron Tuesday Mrs. Caroline Jensen Perry, 81, lifelong Cedar City resident, died of a heart attack Saturday afternoon after-noon at the family home. Mrs. Perry, who assumed responsibility responsibil-ity of raising a one-month old baby brother when she was only thirteen years of age, following the death of her mother, had been in ill health for nearly 20 years. Born July 22, 1861, in Cedar City, a daughter of early Swedish LDS converts, Anders Dengt Caroline Car-oline Estleund Jenson, she married mar-ried Heber Charles Perry in the St. George LDS temple in 1889. Mr. Perry was called by death six months ago. Mrs. Perry had been very active ac-tive in the L D S Relief Society and was very prominent in Red Cross work during World War I before she became ill. She spent 20 years on Cedar mountain engaged en-gaged in dairying operations on one of the first dairy ranches in the Cedar City area. Mrs. Perry was noted both as a great lover of her home and as an expert needlewoman. Surviving are two sons and one daughter, Clayton, Carlyle, and Lauretta Perry, all of Cedar City, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Carrie Nichols of California, and Mrs. Amanda Benson, Parowan. . Funeral services for Mrs. Perry were conducted in the First Ward Chapel Tuesday afternoon with Bishop James Hey wood prcsid- (Continued on Back Page) Mrs. C. J. Perry (Continued from Page one) ing. Speakers at the services were Samuel F. Leigh, II. II. Lunt, and Bert Langford. Invocation was by James Parry, benediction by C. William Macfarlane, and the dedicatory de-dicatory prayer by George V. Grlmshaw. The musical program Included organ music by Mrs. Melba Sargent; Sar-gent; Opening song, "Abide With Me.'Tls Eve'n Tide", by a quartet quar-tet composed of Mr. and Mrs. William Manning, L. C. Miles, and Miss Ruth Corry, accompanied accompan-ied by Mrs. Sargent; vocal solo, "My Father Knows", by Forrest Hunter, accompanied by Reed Berrett; vocal duet, "In The Garden", Gar-den", by Chauncey Macfarlane and Bert Carpenter, accompanied by Mrs. Beth Leigh; vocal duet, "One Fleeting Hour", by Miss Mamie Eck and Mrs. Lois Mc-Connell, Mc-Connell, accompanied by Mrs. Leigh. |