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Show Funeral Services Held For Basin Pioneer Very impressive funeral services ' were held Friday, Feb. 11 for Sarah Johnson Summarell at the Roosevelt LDS ward chapel under , '' the direction of j ' Merlin Sullivan, , bishop of the f, 1 I Roosevelt Fourth - 4 J Ward' , . Prayer at the " ' I funeral home was offered by Verlin Nelson. Prelude F music was the song ! "Oh, My Father," Mrs. summarell by Lacee Fitzgerald Fitzger-ald and Bennie Schmiett, accompanied accom-panied by Mrs. Helen Larson. Prayers were offered by Lewis Taylor and Reginald Curry. The speakers were Bishop Sullivan, Dr. R. V. Larson, James E. Bacon and James W. Summarell, a grandson. Songs were as follows: "I Need Thee Every Hour," by Cora Johnson John-son and Reverend and Mrs. Nolan Beaird, and "Beyond the Sunset," by Lacee Fitzgerald and Bennie Schmiett, with a musical reading, "If You Go First," by Mrs. LaRue Nixon, with Mrs. Helen Larson at the organ, and "That Wonderful Mother of Mine," by Garret Stone, accompanied by Mrs. Lacee Fitzgerald. Fitz-gerald. Burial was at the Cedaw-view Cedaw-view cemetery under the direction of the Olpin Mortuary. The grave was dedicated by James Summarell. Summar-ell. Sarah Johnson Summarell was born in Springville, Alabama, April 20, 1867, one of the ten children of Thomas N. and Nancy Head Johnson. She was married to James M. Summarell June 25, 1882. To this unjon were born six children, four of which are still living. They are Mrs. Lula Lambert, Mrs. Ethel Brown, Samuel Sam-uel and Clinton Summarell, all of Roosevelt. Along with her husband and four children she became a. convert con-vert to the LDS church. Shortly afterwards they moved to Pueblo, Colorado, where their home was always open to the Mormon missionaries, mis-sionaries, and many times their home was used to hold church services. They homesteaded in Cedarview, Utah, in 1907, As the nearest doctor doc-tor was forty miles away, Mrs. Summarell was often called upon to use her skill at nursing which she never charged for. Both she and her husband made the young people feel so welcome in their home that they made it sort of a recreation center. They were known by everyone as Uncle Jim and Aunt Sally. As her mother had died while she was still so young, she seemed to have a natural desire to mother moth-er every unfortunate person. She not only mothered her motherless grandchildren, but on several occasions oc-casions she gave a home to un-1 un-1 fortunate boys. People said, "Anything "Any-thing that was homeless, whether human or a stray animal, always managed to find its way up the lane to her home." Even though she had an unhappy un-happy childhood, she was blessed in her marriage to have an ideal husband and father for her children. chil-dren. As long as her health permitted she was active in the Relief Society So-ciety and all church activities, she loved the Uintah Basin and the people here. To her there were no better people in the world. Through the years her testimony became stronger and only a few weeks before her death she said she had one more thing to do here. That was to leave her testirriony of the gospel to be kept on record re-cord for her family and friends. |
