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Show MINNIE MARIA WELLS Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Min-nie M. Messer Wells, 82, a pioneer pio-neer resident of the Uintah Basin, Bas-in, were conducted Monday at 1:30 p. m. in the Myton L.D.S. chapel. Mrs. Wells died Friday, Jan. 10, in a Salt Lake City hospital, of pneumonia. Rev. James Hailwood, of Vernal, Ver-nal, pastor of the Myton Presbyterian Presby-terian church, was in charge of the services, with James E. Bacon Ba-con and J. Harold Eldredge, of! Roosevelt, as speakers. Musical numbers were by Fern Moffctt and Porter Merrell, duet, and a vocal solo by Mrs. Prebs. Prayer at the home was offered by J. Harold Eldredge. Burial was in the Roosevelt City cemetery under "thfTrtiT tion of the Dillman Fnircc-Home, Fnircc-Home, with the rS? hSSSSS reading the committal Mr. Eldredge dedicated th'-grave. th'-grave. Pallbearers were inr?e Dalgleish, Frank MunkZ?. rell Dean, Fred Todd r," Hemphill and Harvey Pvg A native of Bloomington tii Mrs. Wells was born a' ) 1863, a daughter of John Jl Jane Weekly Messer. ShS w married to S. A. Wells at Cherry ville, Kansas in 1889. Thev tT ncered to the Uintah Basin ft 1907. settling first in V n Three years later they moved to Myton where they were eneazpS ' in the livestock business and ai so operated a meat market anrt t ' grocery store until Mr. Well'. V death, Anril 5, 1941. Us I Mrs. Wells, who continued tn ' reside in Myton after her hut bands death, is survived bv a C daughter, Mrs. Gladys Hafrh and a son, Robert Kirtley Wells' both of Myton; two brothers' U John Messer, of Kappa, Illinois U and Frank Messer, of Bloomine ton, Illinois. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and 1 great grand-child. - |