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Show Ing to provide for her little family, tvo boys and a girl. She Is survived by two sons, Edward Ed-ward and Gilbert, and a daughter. Olivine, all of whom are past M years of age, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Hahcr Th son, Gilbert, and the daughter. Olivine, are at home, but the older son, Kdward. Is somewhere in Montana, his .exact location not yet being known. He was last heard f-om at Dillon, Montana, but It is possible that he Is now at Dutte or Great Falls, Montana. Mrs. La Mar was 47 years of age and was a strong, robust woman. It 13 anticipated that funeral series ser-ies will be held Thursday morning, the exact hour and place having not ' yet been determined. Mra. La Mar I has many friends In Ogden and Chi-Icago Chi-Icago who will igreatly mourn ler i death SUCCUMBS TO AWFUL After a noble and oeiermined effort to survive the awful ravages of fire .luce last Friday morning, Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet La Mar this morning, at 11 o'clock, passed to the great beyond. She was posithe that she would sur-v:ve sur-v:ve the awful ordeal, but she was mistaken. H r will power was stronger strong-er than hor body. Friday morning while burning rubbish rub-bish at the rear of hor little grocery ttore on Monroe avenue and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth - street, Mrs. La Mar's clothing caught Are and before she could be rescued from the flames, she was frightfully burned about the body. At ' the time it was pronounced by the physicians to be next to Incineration and that the patient could not live tv.enlj-four hours. But Mrs. La Mar insisted that she would live, never losing hope, and struggling almost boond human belief to conquer the ailllctioD, She was badly burned from the ankles to the shoulders, tho severest burns being about the waist and h'ps where corset steels incased tho body. They became so hot that they fairly burned into the body, causing great blisters to appear. It is thought that had it not been for tho excessive exces-sive heat of the corset steels, the unfortunate un-fortunate woman's life might have been spared Mrs. Ia Mar came to Ogden with her children ten years ago and entered enter-ed into the grocery business, on Monroe avenue and Twenty-fifth street, where she had since resided and strurj;led heroically? to raise her three children. Her husband died before she left Chicago, she coining here principally because her sister, Mrs. Charles. Fisher, resided here. Sh3 was a good woman, honest hon-est and frugal and at all times striv- |