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Show Funeral Services Set For Pioneer SsEiool Teacher MRS. MARY ORSER' DIES AT 93; BORN IN PROVO Funeral services will be held today, Thursday, March 1 at 1 p.m. for Mrs. Mary' Rogers Orser, 92, who died in her sleep at her home, Monday night.. Death was due to causes incident to age. An a c t i ve church and civic civ-ic worker all her life until ad-. vancing years forced her to retire from her many duties, Mrs. Orser had retired early M o n da y evening eve-ning to her bed after having ( r I Mrs. Orser naa a visit rrom some or ner friends. When her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jessie O. Orser, with whom she was living, went in to see how she was before retiring herself, she found her dead. She had eaten her supper before retiring. re-tiring. Born In Provo Mrs. Orser was born in Provo, May 17, 1863, a daughter of David and Ellen Bennett Rogers. She Was educated in the Provo public schools and taught school in Provo after completing a 8-year normal course at the Brigham Young University. She later taught at Lost River, Idaho.. Returning to Provo she married Frank Orser, then moved to Vernal where they made their home for several years. Mr. Orser died in 1943. At the opening of the Uintah Basin in 1906, she and heT late husband homesteaded the present site of the Roosevelt stake' house. Mrs. Orser taught school in Glines, which is now. Vernal, Ballard, Jensen Jen-sen and Roosevelt, working as teacher, principal and served as the first superintendent of schools in Uintah County. She retired (Continued on Back Page) I ! MRS7 MARY R. ORSER . . ! (Continued from Page 1) from teaching in 1926 after 36 I years in the profession. J Active In LDS Church I Mrs. Orser was very active in ! the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-! Lat-! ter-d'ay Saints, working in various offices of the church and spend-: spend-: ing 20 years as a member of the j Relief Society and Mutual Improve-i Improve-i ment Assn. stake board. She was a charter member of the Altrus Club, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Pio-neers and honorary member of the Business and Professional Women's Wo-men's Club. She once served as president of the P-TA. Mrs, Orser was mother of four children, a son and daughter sur vive; Edwin D. Orser, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Calif.; Mrs. Darrell (Aita Crockett,- Logan. She had six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the OI.pin Mortuary Wednesday evening and at the family home' Thursday I morning until time of the services j Burial will be in the Roosevelt cemetery. |