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Show Services held for Verda Sullivan Woodbury Funeral services for Katie Jane Fretwell Ashdown age 95 of . 106 S. and 300 E. Cedar City, were held Wednesday April 3, in the. Cedar 12th LDS Ward Chapel under the direction of the Metcalf Southern Utah Mortuary. Mor-tuary. Interment was in the Cedar City Cemetery. Mrs. Ashdown was born in Cedar City Feb. 4, 1879, the only daughter of Orson Pratt and Sarah Ann Dutton Fretwell. She has lived on the same street in Cedar City for ninety of her ninety-five years. On November 11, 1902 she was married to George Arthur Ashdown in the St. George LDS Temple. Mr. Ashdown Ash-down died on September 2, 1942 at the age of 72 years. She was a member of the Cedar 12th Ward and had been an active member of the Relief Society. ' For many years Mrs. Ashdown worked in her home as a dress maker. She had eight children, four of which preceeded her in death. She is survived by: one son and three daughters; Pratt F. Ashdown Ash-down of Cedar City, Mrs. E. J. (Margery) Lapman of Cedar City; Mrs. Ralph (Pearl) Bradley of Las Vegas, Nev., and Mrs. C. N. (Edna) Gilbreth of Cedar City .One brother: Arthur Fretwell of Cedar City. Six Grandchildren and twelve great I grandchildren; Two nephews which she raised; Donald Fretwell and Grant Fretwell both of San Jose, Calif. |