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Show Elizabeth Beers Dies In California-Buried Here Elizabeth Glines Beers, 77, died at North Hollywood, California Sunday morning after a short illness. She was born in Harris Grove, Iowa and came to Utah early in life. She was the wife of Franklin Beers, and a resident of Pleasant Grove for 25 years. At one time the Beers store and dance hall were among the principal prin-cipal business houses in this city. Mrs. Beers took charge of a millinery store for several years here and was also proprietor of a like concern, at hotels in this part of the country and later built a dance hall. In 1895 they moved to Vernal, where the Glines families were located locat-ed and continued in the mercantile business. In connection with the general store, Mrs. Beers and daughters daught-ers conducted a milliner shop. Several years later they built a home and also al-so conducted a Millinery Shop on TJni- I' versity avenue in Provo. She was left a widow in 1904. She was the mother of 11 children, 39 grandchild- ren and 17 greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Elizabeth Beers with her strong character and sterling worth was an outstanding figure and a leader in the community. She had hot only the gift, but the disposition to lift up and down, east and gira comfort to the weary. She was deeply deep-ly religious and valiant in the cans of Christianity, working many years in the Relief Society and Primary organizations- She gave to the needy with a lavish hand and was ever ready to help others in case of sickness sick-ness or death. She volunteered her service as public nurse when the Fla took its terrible toll of human llf and nursed thirty cases and entirely escaped the malady herself. While successful in every endeavor her greatest achievment was as a wife arid mother. o Vernal, Ultah. She had a sunny disposition dis-position and won a host of friends. She is survived by nine children as follows: Anna Louise Driggs of Venice, California; Frank Beers of North Hollywood, California; Clara Jane McArthur of Venice, California) Ethel Ishram of Venice, California; Mrs. Nellie Cope of VernaJ, Utah; May Browning of Ogden; Warren Beers of Pleasant Grove; and Olive Clayton of Ogden. Thirty nine grandchildren grand-children and seventeen greatgrandchildren greatgrand-children also survive. Funeral services were held on Thursday in the tabernacle with Councilman Atkinson of the Second Ward Bishopric1 conducting the exercises exer-cises as follows: violin solo by Ford Poulson; prayer by Ezra F- Walker; solo "Face to Face" by E. R, West,1 accompanied by Mrs. West The speakers were William L. Hayes, C. B. Harper and Dr. George H. Brim-hall; Brim-hall; a solo "Sister Thou Wast Mild and Lovely" was sang by Mrs. Estella Hardman ; benediction by Olof Mon-son. Mon-son. The grave in the Pleasant Grove cemetery was dedicated by Patriarch S- L. Swenson. Elizabeth Ann Glines Beers was born in Harris Grove, Iowa, March 13, 1852 . She was the daughter of Harvey arid Elizabeth Myers Glines. Her father was a personal friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Glines family crossed the plains in 1852, lived in Salt Lake City one year and then made a permanent home in Cedar Fort She was married to Franklin Beers of Pleasant Grove on April 26, 1869. . The Beers family was one of the progressive and leading families of the town. Mr. Beers followed merchandising, mer-chandising, first in partnership with B. W. Driggs on the place where the Busy Corner Store ' now stands and was called the Beers and Driggs store. Later he built a store on his home lot. Besides the general store, he built a tailor shop, shoe shop, tin shop and a butcher shop thus giving employment to a number i of town people. He also built and operated one of the best equipped |