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Show DEATH COMES TO MRS. O0RHEES Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the auditorium of the new L. D. S. chapel for Mrs. William Voorhees, 57, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ross Palmer, on Thursday, following a lengthy illness ill-ness from carcc-mona of the liver. The services were conducted by Bishop Bis-hop E. H. Bird who, in conjunction with L. F. Robison, spoke in a commendatory com-mendatory manner of the life of the deceased while uttering comforting words for those bereaved. Musical numbers included a violin solo by Dr. C. R. Parrish, vocal numbers by a group consisting of Misses Juanita Miller and Loretta Murdock, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stapley, P. J. Williams and J. Christensen, and vocal and piano numbers by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes. The benediction was given by Leonard Banks. Following the local services, the body was taken to Mayfield where additional services were held on Monday, Mon-day, interment taking place in Gunnison Gun-nison under the direction of the Ward Funeral home, who also had in charge the preparation of the body for burial. Hannah Scow Voorhees was born in Ephraim, the daughter of Peter C. and Marie Scow. She and her husband located ia Milford in 192S, Mr. Voorhees dying a year later. Surviving the deceased are a daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Ross Palmer, and two sons, LaVar andStanley, all of Milford, also al-so two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. Frank Whitbeck, Mrs. Oscar Nelson, and Conrad, Peter H. and Clarence Scow of Mayfield, and another an-other sister, Mrs. P. M. V. Anderson of Orangeville. |