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Show Mrs. Mary Damron ; Dies Sunday In Salt Lake City Mrs. Mary Abiah Kelly Damron, 77, a Millard county resident for many years, died of a coronary occlusion Sunday at 10 p.m. in a Salt Lake hospital. She was the wife of the late Joseph W. Damron, bishop of Deseret ward for 18 years. Mrs. Damron was born Nov. 2, 1873, in Panaca, Nev., a daughter of Virgil and Amanda Barron Kelly. Kel-ly. She came with her parents as a small girl to Oasis, where the family home was made for yaers. Her father was a prominent fig- i ure in Millard county history. 1 As a young woman Mrs. Damron had worked for a while on the Millard County Blade, when it was edited and published by Josiah F. Gibbs in Deseret in 1893. In Febru- i ary of this year she had written an interesting article telling of i those days when she hand-set the type which she prepared for the j D. U. P. history of Millard county. She was married to Mr. Damron April 8, 1896, in the Salt Lake ; temple, and the couple made their ' home in Deseret where Mr. Dam- ron had a store for years. In 1926 ; they moved to Salt Lake City, and had resided there since. : Mrs. Damron was a cultured wo- man, with a deep and abiding in- : terest in the best in literature and fine arts. She had long been active in the LDS church and had lived with serene faith and loving kind- ' ness. She was a Gold Star mother, as her only son, Ladd Damron, died in World War I. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Norma Wright, Delta; Mrs. Mariam Cropper and Mrs. Virgilia ! Thompson, Salt Lake City; and Mrs. Ruth Dorius, Falls Church, Va.; thirteen grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Mark O. Kelly, Salt Lake City; and George L. Kelly, Helper; and a sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Margaret Ryan, Berkeley, ': California. Funeral services will be conduc- ; ted Thursday at 12 noon in the 11th ward in Salt Lake City. Burial will be in the Salt Lake City cemetery cem-etery under direction of Larkin mortuary. |