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Show Saturday Funeral Planned For Mrs. John K. Madsen Mrs. Mary Virginia Whitlock Madsen, 63, long a prominent citizen of Mt. Pleasant, died Monday afternoon at the Salt Lake residence of a daughter, Mrs. Paul R. Summers. Funeral spruirpc uill ha ducted Saturday at 1 p. m. at the Mt. Pleasant South ward chapel. Burial will be in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery under the direction of the Jacobs mortuary. Mrs. Madsen, the widow of John K. Madsen, well known sheep man in Mt. Pleasant, had been ill for about four months at the time of her death. Mr. Madsen died in 1942. She was borrf October 30, 1885 in Moroni, the daughter of Andrew An-drew Hyrum Jr.,' and Ann Maria Draper Whitlock. Her childhood was spent in Moroni, Mayfield and Mt. Pleasant, where she received her early education. She later lived in Provo, Salt Lake, McGill and Ely, Nev. In 1911 she returned to Mt. Pleasant to care for her deceased de-ceased sister's daughters and on Dec. 28, 1914, she was married to their father, John K. Madsen. In 1917 she took another deceased de-ceased sister's child to rear. Active in church work, she served on the North Sanpete Stake Relief Society board about ten years, served as president of Mt. Pleasant South Ward Young women s Mutual Improvement Association, as counselor in that ward's Primary association, counselor in the ward Relief Society for several years and at the time of her death was a visiting teacher in the Relief Society. She was also active in Temple work and was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pio-neers, having served as captain of the Mt. Pleasant Camp for two years. During the time of the building build-ing of the Mt. Pleasant South Ward chapel, she was active on the fund raising committee. She was a member of the ONO club and .the Twentieth Century club. She is survived by two daughters, daugh-ters, Mrs. William C. Olsen Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Paul R. Summers, Sum-mers, Salt Lake city; a son, H. John Madsen, Salt Lake city; a brother, Hyrum D. Whitlock Preston, Nevada, and two sisters, sis-ters, Mrs. E. A. Madsen, Sail Lake city, and Mrs. Ellen F. Luke, Provo. Friends may call- at the family fam-ily home in Mt. Pleasant Friday evening and Saturday prior to services. |