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Show Rites Held For Logan Mother Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Kunz Rigby, 74, were held in Logan Lo-gan on Saturday, May 27. She died at her home in Logan May 24, of a heart ailment. Mrs. Rigby was the mother of Mrs. Alta Ashby( of Delta, and had visited in Delta several times since Mrs. Ashby and her husband, Carl Ashby, have made their home here. Mrs. Rigby and her husband, John Thomas Rigby, pioneered in the Gray's Lake, Idaho region, where they helped organize a branch of the LDS church. They later moved to Bern, Idaho, where Mr. Rigby taught school, living there 30 years. They were the parents of 12 children, ten of whom are surviving, and 52 grand children and 21 great-grandchildren. They lived in Montpelier and in 1933 moved to Logan to do temple work. Mr. Rigby died in 1940. Mrs. Rigby was active in many church organizations during her life, and had served in the Primary Pri-mary as president for 17 years, secretary of the Relief Society for 20 years, and had been president of the YWMIA. |