Rachel Farley Carrigan, 90, of Peterson, Morgan County, died in an Ogden nursing home of natural causes.
Mrs. Carrigan was born July 23, 1882, in Ogden, a daughter of Asa Calkins and Rachel Caroline Poulter Farley.
On September 10, 1919, she was married to James W. Carrigan in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died April 19, 1949.
In 1902 she moved to Peterson and taught school in Littleton, Morgan County, for seven years, and in 1906 was named superintendent of Morgan County Schools. From 1910 to 1911 she was supervisor of music for the Box Elder County School District.
She was a concert pianist in Utah in the 1900s. In 1913 she left Ogden to study music in Germany. After returning to Ogden, she became an instructor at the Ogden Conservatory of Music.
She worked in the MIA for 17 years and was MIA president in the Peterson LDS Ward. She also served as Relief Society president, and had been an organist and chorister in the ward. She was a member of Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Surviving are one son, David Farley Carrigan, Peterson; two grandchildren; two sisters and one brother, Mrs. Victor (Veda) McCord, Van Nuys, California; Mrs. Harriet Williams, Salt Lake City, Harold J. Farley, Berkeley, California.
Obituary, Ogden Standard Examiner
Mrs. Carrigan was born July 23, 1882, in Ogden, a daughter of Asa Calkins and Rachel Caroline Poulter Farley.
On September 10, 1919, she was married to James W. Carrigan in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died April 19, 1949.
In 1902 she moved to Peterson and taught school in Littleton, Morgan County, for seven years, and in 1906 was named superintendent of Morgan County Schools. From 1910 to 1911 she was supervisor of music for the Box Elder County School District.
She was a concert pianist in Utah in the 1900s. In 1913 she left Ogden to study music in Germany. After returning to Ogden, she became an instructor at the Ogden Conservatory of Music.
She worked in the MIA for 17 years and was MIA president in the Peterson LDS Ward. She also served as Relief Society president, and had been an organist and chorister in the ward. She was a member of Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Surviving are one son, David Farley Carrigan, Peterson; two grandchildren; two sisters and one brother, Mrs. Victor (Veda) McCord, Van Nuys, California; Mrs. Harriet Williams, Salt Lake City, Harold J. Farley, Berkeley, California.
Obituary, Ogden Standard Examiner
Rachel Farley Carrigan, 90, of Peterson, Morgan County, died in an Ogden nursing home of natural causes.
Mrs. Carrigan was born July 23, 1882, in Ogden, a daughter of Asa Calkins and Rachel Caroline Poulter Farley.
On September 10, 1919, she was married to James W. Carrigan in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died April 19, 1949.
In 1902 she moved to Peterson and taught school in Littleton, Morgan County, for seven years, and in 1906 was named superintendent of Morgan County Schools. From 1910 to 1911 she was supervisor of music for the Box Elder County School District.
She was a concert pianist in Utah in the 1900s. In 1913 she left Ogden to study music in Germany. After returning to Ogden, she became an instructor at the Ogden Conservatory of Music.
She worked in the MIA for 17 years and was MIA president in the Peterson LDS Ward. She also served as Relief Society president, and had been an organist and chorister in the ward. She was a member of Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Surviving are one son, David Farley Carrigan, Peterson; two grandchildren; two sisters and one brother, Mrs. Victor (Veda) McCord, Van Nuys, California; Mrs. Harriet Williams, Salt Lake City, Harold J. Farley, Berkeley, California.
Obituary, Ogden Standard Examiner
Mrs. Carrigan was born July 23, 1882, in Ogden, a daughter of Asa Calkins and Rachel Caroline Poulter Farley.
On September 10, 1919, she was married to James W. Carrigan in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died April 19, 1949.
In 1902 she moved to Peterson and taught school in Littleton, Morgan County, for seven years, and in 1906 was named superintendent of Morgan County Schools. From 1910 to 1911 she was supervisor of music for the Box Elder County School District.
She was a concert pianist in Utah in the 1900s. In 1913 she left Ogden to study music in Germany. After returning to Ogden, she became an instructor at the Ogden Conservatory of Music.
She worked in the MIA for 17 years and was MIA president in the Peterson LDS Ward. She also served as Relief Society president, and had been an organist and chorister in the ward. She was a member of Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Surviving are one son, David Farley Carrigan, Peterson; two grandchildren; two sisters and one brother, Mrs. Victor (Veda) McCord, Van Nuys, California; Mrs. Harriet Williams, Salt Lake City, Harold J. Farley, Berkeley, California.
Obituary, Ogden Standard Examiner
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