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Show OBITUARIES Mrs. Emma C. Thornley Funeral services for Mrs. Emmai Clark Thornley, 74, recognized for her service as a musician and poet, who died Tuesday afternoon at the family home after a long illness, were conducted today in the Smithfield Third ward chapel by Bishop Don Chambers. A noted author, her poems had appeared in several national anthologies an-thologies and she published . her own collection, "Pen and Pictures" several years ago. She also was known as a lover of flowers. She was born January 9, 1871 in Stanwich, Northamptonshire, England, a daughter of Jonah and Mary Smith Clark. She came to Utah in 1880 and settled with her family in Salt Lake City. -She was married to William Thornley ! June 6, 1894 in the Logan Tem- j pie. He died in June, 1918. j Mrs. Thornley was active in i church music circles, was a I member of the Zions Choral union, un-ion, directed by George Careless, J noted composed, and had directed choirs in the Smithfield Second ward Primary, Y. L. M. I. A. and Sunday school.. She had organized the Benson Stake Sunday school and Relief Re-lief society choruses and served as chorister. During the first World War she was vice chairman chair-man of the Smithfield Red Cross, was captain of the Sarah Woodruff Wood-ruff camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, and an active genealogical genea-logical workers. Survivors include three sons and two daughters, William C, Wilson R., Lila and Gwendella Thornley of Smithfield, Willard D. Thornley with the naval forces in the Pacific, and a brother, G. W. Clark of Smith-field. Smith-field. Burial in the Smithfield cemetery ceme-tery was under direction of the Kenneth Lindquist mortuary. |