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Show 'il DEATHSI" AMELIA HALL YEAGER Funeral services for Mrs. Amelia Hall Yeager, who died at her home in Jensen, July 8 at 11:55 p.m., were held Monday, Mon-day, July 13, on her 86th birthday, birth-day, at 11 a.m. in the Jensen ward chapel, under the direction direc-tion of Bishop Theyral Cook. Mrs. Margaret Caldwell played play-ed the prelude and postlude music. Prayer in the home was by Birchell Goodrich. The funeral fun-eral services consisted of a violin vio-lin solo, "On Wings of Song," by Margaret Caldwell; speakers were, Ovie Richardson, of Salt Lake City and Lionel Jensen, of Neola, both old time friends and neighbors of Mrs. Yeager when she lived at Monarch; a duet, "In The Garden," Naomi Dudley and Carwin Snow, accompanied ac-companied on the piano by Marie Paulson; a solo, "That Wonderful Mother of Mine." Carwin Snow, accompanied oy Marie Paulson; and the Jensen Singing Mothers consisting of Eloise- Curfew, Gertrude Turner, Tur-ner, Rose Robinson, Gxacia Her-schi, Her-schi, Josephine Stewart and Alice Al-ice Merkley, sang "Some Time We'll Understand," accompanied accompan-ied by Margaret Caldwell on the piano; closing' remarks by Bishop Cook and the closing prayer by Moroni Moon. Pallbearers were grandsons of Mrs. Yeager and were Leon and Howard Ainge, Charles Woodward, Wood-ward, Jr., Percy Stewart and Paul and Richard Murray. Burial was in the Jensen cemetery under the supervision of the Vernal Mortuary. The grave was dedicated by Bishop Cook. ' Mrs. Yeager was born July 13, 1867, a twin sister of Mrs. Adelia Hall Snow, to' Job Pitcher Pitch-er and Lydia Jane Tyron Hall, at Salem, Utah. She married George Thomas Yeager Dec. 26, 1883. .They came to the Uintah Basin to make their home in 1897, when the Indian Reservation Reserva-tion opened up, settling in the Montwel area. While still there her husband died. Also preceding preced-ing her in death were 2 infants, Ira and Joe and a grown daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Adelia Murray. After living on the reservation reserva-tion for approximately 40 years, she together with her son, George Yeager, Jr. moved to Jensen, where they have resided resid-ed since. Her daughter, Mrs. Amelia Ainge, has made her home with them the past several years. Mrs. Yeager had been ill for a month, spending some time in Vernal at the hospital and after leaving there at the home of a granddaughter, Mrs. Red Stewart. Stew-art. She had been at home about 2 weeks before her death and her children all remained with her. Surviving her are her son, George Yeager, Jr., daughters, Mrs. Amelia Ainge and Mrs. Rebecca Stewart, of Jensen; Mrs. Mary Woodward, of Roosevelt; Roose-velt; her sister, Mrs. Adelia Snow, of Sacramento, Calif.; 21 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren and 12 great-greatgrandchildren. |