Obituary printed in Davis County Clipper December 28, 1973.
Death Claims Former Resident
Gladys Ellis, 73, formerly a Bountiful and Salt Lake resident died in a Pasadena rest home after a long illness.
She was born May 13, 1900 in Ione, Ida. to Jerimiah and Emdline Wolfy Ellis.
She married Orvin Law, divorced; married Bertram V. Benson, divorced; married John Klebe, divorced.
She was a seamstress and taylor, and member of the North 21st Ward, Salt Lake City.
Survivors are two sons and one daughter, Ellis Law, Salt Lake City; Don B. Benson, Bountiful; and Elva Lught Rousselle of Arcadia, Calif, nine grandchildren, one great grandchild, a brother, Henry Ellis, nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday Dec. 24 at 1:30 p.m. at the Live Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia, Calif. Dedication of the grave and family prayer was by a son, Don B. Benson at Bountiful.
Mrs. Ellis came to bountiful as a child with her family in 1914. They lived in a tent on the corner of Mill Street and Orchard Drive where the old mill was located. At the time her father was a trapper, who with the help of his sons successfully caught and kept alive a bear in their back yard which was later given to Liberty Park Zoo. When the bear died he was stuffed and located in the state capital building.
Death Claims Former Resident
Gladys Ellis, 73, formerly a Bountiful and Salt Lake resident died in a Pasadena rest home after a long illness.
She was born May 13, 1900 in Ione, Ida. to Jerimiah and Emdline Wolfy Ellis.
She married Orvin Law, divorced; married Bertram V. Benson, divorced; married John Klebe, divorced.
She was a seamstress and taylor, and member of the North 21st Ward, Salt Lake City.
Survivors are two sons and one daughter, Ellis Law, Salt Lake City; Don B. Benson, Bountiful; and Elva Lught Rousselle of Arcadia, Calif, nine grandchildren, one great grandchild, a brother, Henry Ellis, nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday Dec. 24 at 1:30 p.m. at the Live Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia, Calif. Dedication of the grave and family prayer was by a son, Don B. Benson at Bountiful.
Mrs. Ellis came to bountiful as a child with her family in 1914. They lived in a tent on the corner of Mill Street and Orchard Drive where the old mill was located. At the time her father was a trapper, who with the help of his sons successfully caught and kept alive a bear in their back yard which was later given to Liberty Park Zoo. When the bear died he was stuffed and located in the state capital building.
Obituary printed in Davis County Clipper December 28, 1973.
Death Claims Former Resident
Gladys Ellis, 73, formerly a Bountiful and Salt Lake resident died in a Pasadena rest home after a long illness.
She was born May 13, 1900 in Ione, Ida. to Jerimiah and Emdline Wolfy Ellis.
She married Orvin Law, divorced; married Bertram V. Benson, divorced; married John Klebe, divorced.
She was a seamstress and taylor, and member of the North 21st Ward, Salt Lake City.
Survivors are two sons and one daughter, Ellis Law, Salt Lake City; Don B. Benson, Bountiful; and Elva Lught Rousselle of Arcadia, Calif, nine grandchildren, one great grandchild, a brother, Henry Ellis, nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday Dec. 24 at 1:30 p.m. at the Live Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia, Calif. Dedication of the grave and family prayer was by a son, Don B. Benson at Bountiful.
Mrs. Ellis came to bountiful as a child with her family in 1914. They lived in a tent on the corner of Mill Street and Orchard Drive where the old mill was located. At the time her father was a trapper, who with the help of his sons successfully caught and kept alive a bear in their back yard which was later given to Liberty Park Zoo. When the bear died he was stuffed and located in the state capital building.
Death Claims Former Resident
Gladys Ellis, 73, formerly a Bountiful and Salt Lake resident died in a Pasadena rest home after a long illness.
She was born May 13, 1900 in Ione, Ida. to Jerimiah and Emdline Wolfy Ellis.
She married Orvin Law, divorced; married Bertram V. Benson, divorced; married John Klebe, divorced.
She was a seamstress and taylor, and member of the North 21st Ward, Salt Lake City.
Survivors are two sons and one daughter, Ellis Law, Salt Lake City; Don B. Benson, Bountiful; and Elva Lught Rousselle of Arcadia, Calif, nine grandchildren, one great grandchild, a brother, Henry Ellis, nieces and nephews.
Services were held Monday Dec. 24 at 1:30 p.m. at the Live Oak Memorial Park, Monrovia, Calif. Dedication of the grave and family prayer was by a son, Don B. Benson at Bountiful.
Mrs. Ellis came to bountiful as a child with her family in 1914. They lived in a tent on the corner of Mill Street and Orchard Drive where the old mill was located. At the time her father was a trapper, who with the help of his sons successfully caught and kept alive a bear in their back yard which was later given to Liberty Park Zoo. When the bear died he was stuffed and located in the state capital building.
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