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Show fir A , MARY JANE LEE ESKELSON Mary Jane Lee Eskelson, 86, died at her home in Roosevelt, Tuesday at 7:50 p.m. of causes incident to age. She was born Aug. 8, 1867 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a daughter daugh-ter of Mark F. and Julia Ann Davis Lee and at the age of two moved with her parents to Wanship, Summit County, Utah. In 1889 she married David Eskelson, of Wanship. The marriage mar-riage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS temple, Mr. and Mrs. Eskelson moved to the Basin in 1905 when the Basin was first opened to home-steading home-steading and settled a piece of property two miles north of the present Wing's Store, in Fort Duchesne, where Mrs. Eskelson resided until 1944, at which time she bought a home in Roosevelt. Her husband pre-ceeded pre-ceeded her in death in February 1937. In her early life she was active ac-tive in the LDS church and was a member of the Relief Society. Mrs. Eskelson was the mother of nine children, seven of whom are still living: David James Eskelson, Es-kelson, Ruby Irene Hallett, Wanda Wan-da Ferguson, Ephraim Howard Eskelson, all of Gusher; Joseph Eskelson and Belva Grivet, of Roosevelt; Leroy Eskelson, Heb. er City, Utah. She is also survived sur-vived by twenty-one grandchildren, grandchil-dren, twenty-five great-grandchildren and four sisters,' Mrs. Kate Mander, Garfield, Utah; Julia Robinson, Wanship; Helen Phillips, Oakley, Utah; and Millie Mil-lie Pendleton, Wanship. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Friday at 1:00 p.m. in the Roosevelt stake chapel un-1 un-1 der the direction of Bishop E. J. Nixon. Friends may call at the Olpin Mortuary, Roosevelt, on Thursday afternoon and evening and Friday until time of services. servi-ces. Burial will be in the Maeser Cemetery, Vernal. |
