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Show Mrs. Bertha Matheson Dies at Home After Long Illness FuneraJ fcrvices are being held this, Thursday, afternoon, in the Parowan First-Second Ward chapel cha-pel for Mrs. Bertha de Winter Matheson, 61, wife of Kenneth R. Matheson of this city, who died at the family home late Monday Mon-day evening. The services will be under the direction of Bishop George F. Rowley, and burial will be made in the Parowan city cemetery. Mrs. Matheson has been in poor health for more than four years, following a stroke, which was followed a year later by a second one. She was later af-tlicted af-tlicted with cancer which was the ultimate cause of death. Mrs. Matheson was born in Cromwell, Manitoba, Can. Oct. 11, 1894, a daughter of Cornelius and Maria Niddrie de Winter, and the family moved to Winnipeg when Bertha was a child. She was married to Kenneth Matheson Mathe-son on April 4, 1923 in the Salt Lake L D S temple and has made her home here since that time. Always an active church worker, work-er, she served as a teacher in the Primary and Relief Society, s'erved as a counselor in the Relief Re-lief Society presidency and as a Parowan Stake missionary for severaj years. Surviving the deceased besides be-sides her husband, are six sons and daughters: Bruce Matheson,' Parowan; Mrs. Sybil M. Tanner and Mrs. Joyce M. Naefije, Weed Heights, Nev.; Clyde Matheson, Ketchum, Idaho; Jack and Robert Matheson, Cedar City, and eight grandchildren. Also surviving are seven brothers and sisters: Jack de Winter, Cora D Rowan, Bess Harmon, Winnipeg, Can.; Jennie McCall, Montreal, Can..; Cornelius de Winter and Martha Wheelen, Vancouver, Can., and Mary de Winter, Parowan |