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Show Mary Blackham Is Given Moroni Burial Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Petersen Blackham, 82, widow "of the late Willard Blackham, Sr., were conducted at 2 p. m. -Wednesday in the Moroni East ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Bishop Ray Mc-Kinnon. Mc-Kinnon. Burial was in the Moroni cemetery under direction of the Jacobs Mortuary of Mt. Pleasant. Pleas-ant. Mrs. Blackham, who had been a resident of Moroni for more than sixty years, died Sunday evening at her home, after a long illness. She was born in Fountain Green, March 11, 1866, a daughter daugh-ter of James and Maren Sven-sen Sven-sen Petersen. On Nov. 16, 1887 she was married to Wiliard Blackham St., of Moroni. Surviving are four sons and a daughter, Willard Jr., Laun, Ace, and Earl Blackham and Mrs. Eva B. Bailey, all of Moroni; 11 . grandchildren, and 9 great grandchildren. One grandson is now serving an L. D. S. mission in California. |