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Show Funeral Services Held For Mrs. Varion Miller Funeral services were held Friday Fri-day afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Varian Waldron Miller, 62, of this city, who died early Wednesday Wed-nesday morning in the Iron County hospital after an illness of several months. The services were held in the Parowan Third Ward chapel with Bishop A. Hills Orton of the Parowan First ward conducting. Speakers at the services were. Mrs. Barbara M. Adams and A. C. Hatch, with closing remarks by Bishop Orton. Musical numbers were the opening song "Oh My Father," by a male quartet consisting of J. Harold Mitchell, Ivan Decker, Verl Taylor and Claude Orton; an organ and piano duet by Bishop Bish-op and Mrs. G. Morris Rowley of Mesquite, Nev., and the closing song, "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning," by the quartet. Mrs. Mary Lyman was accompanist for the songs and Mrs. Orna Johnson played the organ prelude pre-lude and postlude. The Invocation was offered by President W. Clair Rowley, the benediction was given by Samuel J. Whitney, and at the, cemetery the grave was dedicated by R. Taylor Miller, brother of the deceased's de-ceased's husband. Burial was under un-der the direction of the Jensen mortuary of Cedar City. Mrs. Miller was born April 7, 1891 at Beaver, a daughter of Jchn and Elizabeth Benson Waldron. Wal-dron. She was educated in the school of a Catholic convent in southern California where she has lived much of her life. She was married to Claude Collins Col-lins in 1914 and after his death she married a Mr. Becker who is also deceased. She was married to Lawrence Miller, who survives her, in May, 1917, at Reno, Nev., and moved to Parowan in 1948 where they have since resided. |