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Show FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MILFORD LADY Beautiful and impressive were the funeral services Wednesday afternoon for Alta R. Williams, young wife of Orrin R. Williams, who died at the Milford hospital Monday afternoon from blood poison, following childbirth. child-birth. The services were conducted at the Second ward chapel with Bishop C. E. Peterson presiding-. The ward choir under direction of J. C. Jensen opened the services by singing "Through Deepening Trials," and also sang the closing number, "Nearer My God to Thee." Other musical numbers, beautiful in rendition, rendi-tion, were furnished by our local solo-. solo-. ists, and Bishop E. Swalbergh of the Gunnison ward. Mr Swalbergh sang "Face to Face." J. E. Jenson sang "O, Dry Those Tears," and A. C. Wil-lardsen Wil-lardsen played a touching solo "When The Swallows Homeward Fly." Speakers at the services were: Bishop Bird of the Milford ward; President Parks, of Gunnison and Patriarch Pat-riarch Lazenby of Aurora. Bishop Bird feelingly told of the wide circle of friends made at Milford during their short stay there, and related incidents in-cidents in which Mr. and Mrs. Williams Wil-liams had shown their willingness to work in the church. President Parks spoke on Motherhood, taking as his chief theme, Greater Love Hath No Man Than He Who Lays Down His Life Fo rAnother. Patriarch Lazen-by's Lazen-by's short remarks gave comfort to the husband and family. The invocation invoca-tion was offered by E .W. Crane. Ira A. Rasmussen pronounced the benediction. A long string of cars followed the remains to the north cemetery where the body was tenderly laid to rest. E .W. Crane dedicated the grave. Mrs. 'Williams was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs .Samuel Sanderson of Santaquin, and was the first to die out of a family of fourteen children. She was born at Santaquin May 13, 1901, and later moved with her parents par-ents to West View and was married to Orrin, R. Williams in the Manti temple June 7, 1911. Since that time the family lived in Gunnison, Eureka, Eu-reka, West View and Milford. They had only been residents of Milford three weeks when Mrs. Williams passed pas-sed away. She leaves, besides her husband, three sons, Austin, Nolan and Lynn, and seven step-children, whom she has mothere and cared for since her marriage. She is also survived by her parents and thirteen brothers and sisters, all living in the northern part of the state. Sentinal. |