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Show o Former Woman Of American Fork Dies Mrs. Margery McCarthy, 74, of Salt Lake City, died in a hospital there Tuesday following a lingering illness. Mrs. McCarthy was born in American Fork April 18, 1860, a daughter of John and Nancy Wilson Mercer, early pioneers of American Fork. She was married to Charles McCarthy in the... old Endowment House in Salt Lake. The older people here will remember remem-ber Mrs. McCarthy's activity in church work in this city. She was a member of the presidency of the first Primary Association, was a choir member for years and active in the M. I. A. For 25 years, since moving to Salt Lake, Mrs. Mercer has been a Relief Society teacher in the Nineteenth ward. The following are the survivors: Mrs. Mary McCarthy, a sister, of Raymond, Canada; a niece, Mrs. De Voe Woolf, of Salt Lake City; two nephews, Charles McCarthy of Portland, Port-land, Oregon, and Wilson McCarthy of Oakland, Calif.; also the following half-brothers and sisters: Mrs. Ruth Poole, of Salt Lake City; Jedediah Mercer, of American Fork; Ammon Mercer, Magrath, Canada, and Mo-siah Mo-siah Mercer of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held at the Larkin undertaking parlors in Salt Lake at 12 o'clock noon Friday, under un-der the direction of Bishop Mathew .Asper of the Nineteenth ward. Friends may call at the mortuary Thursday evening and Friday morning morn-ing prior to services. |