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Show Funeral is Held Tuesday for Ada Black Blake Very impressive funeral rites were conducted Tuesday for Mrs. Ada Blake, wife of Benjamin Blake who died Friday March 14 at her home in San Francisco, Calif. The service conducted at the Olpin Funeral Home, began at 2 o'clock with Ernest P. Smith of the Second ward bishopric in charge. char-ge. The opening number, "In the Garden" was sung by Mrs. J. E. Hardman and Mrs. Leland Beers, accompanied by Mrs. Elwood Sundberg. Robert Mitchell, an old neighbor of the Blake family, offered the invocation. first speaker, Charles Latham, a close friend, paid high tribute to the fine characted of Mrs. Blake and brought out fine thoughts on the beauties of life. Joseph Olpin of Heber spoke words of eulogy to lives and works I of Mr. and Mrs. Blake during their residence here, and told of the plan of salvation as taught by the gospel gos-pel of Christ. Henry Black, a brother of the receased pronounced the benediction bene-diction and Parley T. Black, also a brother offered the dedicatory prayer in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery where internment took place', Ada Black Blake was born Feb. 3, 1880 at Fillmore to Joseph S. and Sarah Barney Black. She married mar-ried Benjamin Blake in the St. George LDS Temple and soon after the family came to Pleasant Grove, Mr. Blake entered business and was for years connected with the Pleasant Grove Mercantile Company. Com-pany. Since then they lived in other parts of Utah until about ten years ago when the family moved to California. Survivors are her husband, six sons and daughters, Lucile, Clyde, Vernon and Kutn Blake of San ! Francisco, Mrs. Horlense Placia ;iml Mrs. Small Cru.se of Salt Lake City; eight grandchildren, three brothers, Parley P. Black, Logan, Charles H. Black, Ogden and Joseph Jos-eph F. Black, Salmon City, Idaho. |