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Show Lingering Illness Claims Life of I Laurena Lancrford, 75 1 , - :. . '' iff flJW""'1"" ' i . . x , Mrs. Laurena Da i ley Laiilixu, 75, a native of Summit, died at her home in Cedar City Friday, Feb. 27, after having been in poor health for the past few years. She died of a coronary occlusion. oc-clusion. Her health had been failing for the past two or three years, but she had nnt been seriously ser-iously ill until the past three weeks. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed in the Cedar Second ward chapel Monday afternoon,' by Bishop Adam Seegmiller, after which the body was taken to Summit for burial. I Mrs. Langford was born in Summit on March 3;' 1877. a daughter of Moroni and Martha Allen Dalley. After attending school in Summit she married Isaac Fielding Langford in the Manti Temple on June 8. IH'M. Always an active member of the L D S church she had served for many years as a teacher and In other capacities In both the Sunday School and Relief Society Socie-ty organizations In Summit. She is survived by a son and two daughters, Moroni Bertram Langford, Mrs. Anna Mae Leigh, and Mrs. Martha Laurena Jones, all of Cedar City; a step-son whom she reared, Isaac F. Langford, Lang-ford, Jr., Chehallls, Wash.; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Ada Yoa-cham, Yoa-cham, Callente, Nev., and Mrs. Violet Rupe. Kyger, O.; three sis-1 ters, Mrs. Nora Simkins, Callente, Nev.; Mrs. Mary Simkins, Circle-ville, Circle-ville, and Mrs. Nels C. Madsen, Summit; 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. At the services a sketch of Mrs. Langford's life was given by Howard Dalley, a cousin of the deceased, and a talk was given by William R. Palmer. Invocation Invoca-tion was by William Jones, benediction bene-diction by Harold Smith of Summit, Sum-mit, and the dedicatory prayer at the cemetery In Summit was by Nels C. Madsen. The musical program included two vocal duets, "Largo" by Mrs. Hazel Granger and Reed Roberts, and "In The Garden" by Mrs. Granger and Lynn Peterson, a nephew of the deceased, and the final number, a vocal solo, "Oh My Father", by Mrs. Granger. |