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Show Mrs. Matilda Mills Passes Away Suddenly Mrs. Matilda Peterson Mills, wife of Charles Mills, died at the family residence Sunday morning. While she had been in ill health for a number of years, her sudden death was a severe shock to her family. Her husband, who is janitor jani-tor of the North ward church, was in Sunday School when word came to him of his wife's death. Mrs. Mills was born in this city January 24, 1867, a daughter of Andrew and Sophia Peterson. She was married to Charles Mills November 12, 1883. After their marriage the young couple went to shallow, Arizona to colonize that place, at the caU of President Lund. They lived in that locality eight years. While there Mrs. Mills served as a counselor in the Relief Re-lief Society and as assistant superintendent super-intendent of the Sunday Schools. She has labored as a Relief Society So-ciety teacher in this city for 25 years. She was a devoted wife and mother and a faithful Latter-Day-Saint. She was the mother of ten children chil-dren and had also mothered a little grand daughter, Edna May Christensen, whose mother died when Edna was born. Surviving are her husband; five children, Mrs. Hattie Naef of Eureka; Eu-reka; ' Mrs.' Dena Johnson and Moyle Mills, Mt. Pleasant; Loren A. Mills, Neola, Utah; Mrs. Irl Wilson, Schofield; also 25 grand children; one brother, Fred Larsen, Lar-sen, Mt. Pleasant and two sisters, Mrs. John Omansen, Provo; Mrs. Linda Garlic, Fairview. |