FUNERAL OF MRS. CLARK
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Services Were Held in Farmington Meeting House, Tuesday Afternoon—Very Large Attendance
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The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Mary S. Clark, widow of the late Ezra T. Clark, were held in the Farmington meeting house at 2 p.m. Tuesday, NOvember 28th, 1911 Bishop J.H. Robinson presided.
There were present of the presiding authorities of the church, President F.M. Lyman; of the stake authorities, the stake presidency and nearly all the high council; the stake clerk and many relatives and friends from different parts of Utah and Idaho.
Instructive and consoling remarks were made by ward teacher, Wm. V. Haight, Sister Susan Grant who was associated with the deceased for twenty years in the stake presidency of the Relief Society, Sisster Aurelia S. Rogers and Wm. L. Rich of the Bear Lake stake presidency.
A duet was then sung by Elder Elijah and Miss Ellen Gregory and further remarks were made by Stake President J. H. Grant, President Lyman and Bishop Robinson.
The opening prayer was offered by President J. A. Eldredge, the closing prayer by Elder Edward L. Rich. The pieces sung by the choir were. "Sister Thou Wert Mild and Lovely," "Rest for the Weary Soul" and "I Need Thee Every Hour."
The speakers paid a glowing tribute to the long life work of the decceased, and the powerful example of good inpsired by her devotion to her religion, her family and all who in any way were associated with her during her long earthly career.
A long cortege followed the remains to their last resting place which was in the Farmington cemetery.
The grave was dedicated by her son, Bishop W. W. Clark of Montpelier, Idaho.
The floral tributes were beautiful aand many.
Mrs. Clark was born in Gibraltar and was eighty-six years old last August 29th. She was the mother of eleven children, seven of whom all sons, survive her and were present at the funeral. One brother, James Stevenson, of Farmington, who is over eighty-one years of age, was also present.
Two of her sons died in infancy. Her oldest son, Ezra James, died at the age of twenty-two years and four months, on the cars near New York City while returning from a three years' mission to England. Her only daughter Mary E. C. Robinson, died in 1903, age fifty-three and mother of three sons