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Show Funeral Held For Mrs.OJ-Hubbell Impressive funeral services were held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. for Mrs. Maye Thera Hubbell, 56, wife of Mayor and County Commissioner 0. F. Hubbell. Though not a member of the L. D. S. faith, many of the friends of the family are members of that church and the proffer of the fine new L. D. S. chapel for the better ac-comidation ac-comidation of a large number of friends was accepted, as was also the offer of Bishop E. H. Bird to conduct the services. Congressman Abe Murdock of Beaver, Bea-ver, for many1 years a friend of Mayor and Mrs. Hubbell, spoke eloquently elo-quently of the love and devotion shown by Mr. Hubbell for his wife over a long period of invalidism, paying tribute to his adherence to the principles of Odd Fellowship in this respect, adding that the beautiful and generous display of floral offerings demonstrated the love and esteem of the people of Beaver county for the deceased and for the bereaved husband. hus-band. Musical numbers included womens quartet selections with Mrs. P, E. Beecher as accompanist, and a violin solo by Reese Griffiths of Minersville, also numbers by a string trio composed com-posed of Misses Sarah and Ruth Pool and Leah Thompson. J. M. Christen-sen Christen-sen offered the opening prayer and Bishop Bird the benediction, while County Commissioner Grant H. Tol-ton Tol-ton of Beaver offered the dedicatory prayer at the grave in the local cemetery. ceme-tery. Maye Thera Hubbell, was born September 25, 1878, at Harper Ferry, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Mary Ellen White Welch. She grew to young womanhood in Iowa and was married at Nevada, Iowa, August 11, 1900, to O. F. Hubbell. They resided at St Louis and Chicago before coming com-ing to Salt Lake, where Mr. Hubbell maintained headquarters while traveling travel-ing for a wholesale drug firm. In 1919 they moved to Milford and have made their home here since that time. An accomplished pianist herself, the ability of Mr. Hubbell as a violinist violin-ist combined to make their Salt Lake home a center for a large circle of musically-inclined friends until she was stricken some 16 years ago with Parkinson's disease. Despite the hopelessness of the case, Mr. Hubbell spared no expense in an effort to obtain ob-tain a cure for her and in caring for her as an invalid, but to no avail. Surviving her is her husband and one brother, John Welch, both of Mil-ford; Mil-ford; one sister, Mrs. Beatrice Pelk-ham, Pelk-ham, living in Oaklahoma; another, Mrs. E. N. Lee, of Oak Park, Illinois; and another brother Edward Welch, residing at Gays Mills, Wisconsin. |