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Show Funeral Is Held At Birth Place ForMrs.Shannon I Burial services were held at Springville Sunday for Mrs. li Sumsion Shannon, wife of Dr. R. R. Shannon of Milford, who died in a Salt Lake hospital on Thurs-j day following a four-day illness, j The services were held in the Springville Third ward L. D. S.j chapel with Bishop William Whitney Whit-ney presiding. The speakers were William Tew of Springville and Bishop Joseph Bagnall of Chester and the opening and closing prayers were offered by Sterling Hixson and Ralph Stephenson. Bishop C. Dallas Peterson offered the dedicatory prayer at the graveside. grave-side. Musical numbers included vocal duets by Mri. and Mrs. Guy Brown and by Inez Parker and Helen Palfreyman and vocal solos by Marion Summers and George W. Brown. .Ina Ellen Sumsion Shannon was born at Chester, Utah, December 9, 1908. She was educated at Springville and entered the nursing nurs-ing school of the L. D. S. hospital at Salt Lake City in 1928, graduating gradu-ating in 1931, at which time she became night supervisor of that institution. In the spring of 193.1 she became one of the first stewardesses stew-ardesses of the United Air lines, ivhich position she held until December, De-cember, 1934, on the 29th of that month being married to Dr. Shan non, who had done interne work at the L. D. S. hospital and had just recently purchased the Milford Mil-ford hospital and taken over the practise of Dr. C. R. Parrish. Surviving Mrs. Shannon are her husband and four months old daughter, Sheila Ann; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sumsion of Chester; a brother, Theodore Sumsion Sum-sion of Salt Lake City; and five sisters, Mrs. Vera Summers of Tremonton, Mrs. Dora Davis of Chester, Mrs. Susan Switzer of Ventura, California; Mrs. Clara Christensen of Kenilworth and Mrs. Parley Kump of Rupert, Idaho. Several Milford people attended attend-ed the funeral of Mrs. Shannon and the bereaved doctor and the family have the deepest sympathy of friends everywhere. |
