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Show Final Rites Held Tuesday for Mrs. Nelson Impressive funeral rites were conducted Tuesday in the Second ward chapel for Margaret V.'hit-ting'ham V.'hit-ting'ham Nelson, who died Saturday Satur-day in a Salt Lake hospital, after a lingering illness. With Bishop Reed O. Walker in charge, the service began at 1 o'clock. o'-clock. Invocation was offered by Bishop Grant Christofferson of Lehi. Speakers who paid tribute to the memory of Mrs. Nelson and offered words of encouragement and faith to the mourners Estelle Fenton and Burton H. Adams. Musical numbers were a male quartet "I Need Thee Every Hour" sung by Elwood Allen, Lawrence Farr, A. R. Overlade and F. M. Paulson; an organ solo by Mrs. J. Howard Nelson, and "The Lord's Prayer" a ladies trio, Mrs. J. E. Hardman, Mrs. Leland Beers, and Mrs. Glade Bullock. Mrs. Nelson accompanied all numbers and also played the processional organ music. After the closing remarks by Bishop Walker, benediction was pronounced by Ben Lott. Burial took place in the family plot in the Pleasant Grove city cemetery. President Lewis Olpin offered the dedicatory prayer. The beautiful floral display was arranged by Second ward Relief Society and pall bearers included Eugene L. Bushman. Charles M. Webb, Gene Barney, Melvin Hug-gard, Hug-gard, Grant Christofferson and Ben Lott. Mrs. Nelson was born Aug. 2, 1909, in Sunysidc, Carbon County, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Eliza-beth Barnes Whittingham. She attended schools in Carbon County and was graduated from the high school there. She moved to Pleasant Gi:ove with her parents in 1926 and to Salt Lake City in 1936. While in Salt Lake City she was employed by the Capitol Cleaners Clean-ers prior to her death. On May 23, 1935, she was married mar-ried to James E. Nelson at Lehi. She was a member of the church. Survivors include her hasband, Salt Lake City, an uncle, Alfred Dexter, Pleasant Grove and a sister, sis-ter, Lydia Lowe, England. |