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Eulalia <I>Sorensen</I> Welch

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Eulalia Sorensen Welch

Birth
Mendon, Cache County, Utah, USA
Death
15 Jan 1968 (aged 77)
Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA
Burial
Mendon, Cache County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Eulalia Sorensen Welch— 77 died Monday at her home, 575 North 1st East, after a long illness. She was born April 1st, 1890 in Mendon, a daughter of Isaac and Mary Jacobsen Sorensen. A graduate of the Brigham Young College normal school, she taught in Cache and Box Elder Counties. On June 18, 1913, she married John S. Welch in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. He died in 1947. Mrs. Welch went as a missionary to New Zealand in company with her husband to preside over the Maori L.D.S. College. She served on the Relief Society Mission Board and taught English at the college. Returning from New Zealand they made their home in Jerome, Idaho, where she was president of the Jerome Ward Relief Society for four years while her husband was bishop. In 1927 the family moved to Boise and she served five years on the Boise Stake Relief Board. Always interested in singing groups she was a member of choirs and Singing Mothers groups for forty years. In Logan she was president of the Yeshara Club, captain and secretary of the Zina Diantha Huntington Young daughters of Pioneers. In the Ninth Ward she was head of the special interest group for seven years. For many years she was a Relief Society visiting teacher and literary class leader. Surviving are four sons and daughters; Mrs. Floyd T. (Edith) Morgan, Logan; John S. Welch. Bountiful, and Mrs. Norman (Julie) Siringer, San Mateo, California, and eleven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Hall Mortuary Chapel with Bishop H. Dean Nelson of the Logan Ninth Ward officiating. Friends may call at the Mortuary Wednesday from seven to nine p.m. and Thursday one hour prior to service. Burial will be in the family plot in the Mendon cemetery. ~The Herald Journal, January 1616, 1968, page 7.

Logan— Mrs. Eulalia Sorensen Welch, 77 of 575 North 1st East died of natural causes January 15th at home. Born April 1st, 1890, Mendon, Cache County, to Isaac and Mary Jacobsen Sorensen. Graduate of Brigham Young College normal school. Taught in Cache and Box Elder counties. Married to John S. Welch, June 18th, 1913, Logan L.D.S. Temple. He died in 1947. Served on mission with husband in New Zealand. Jerome, Boise, Idaho resident several years. Former president of the Yeshara Club, Logan. Member Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Survivors: sons, daughters, Mrs. Floyd T. (Edith) Morgan, Logan; John S., Los Angeles; Robert S., Bountiful; Mrs. Norma Julie Siringer, San Mater, California; eleven grandchildren. Funeral Thursday, 2:30 p.m., Hall Mortuary Chapel, where friends call Wednesday 7–9 p.m., Thursday after 1:30 p.m. Burial Mendon City Cemetery. ~Newspaper not listed.

Eulalia Sorensen Welch— 77 died Monday at her home, 575 North 1st East, after a long illness. She was born April 1st, 1890 in Mendon, a daughter of Isaac and Mary Jacobsen Sorensen. A graduate of the Brigham Young College normal school, she taught in Cache and Box Elder Counties. On June 18, 1913, she married John S. Welch in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. He died in 1947. Mrs. Welch went as a missionary to New Zealand in company with her husband to preside over the Maori L.D.S. College. She served on the Relief Society Mission Board and taught English at the college. Returning from New Zealand they made their home in Jerome, Idaho, where she was president of the Jerome Ward Relief Society for four years while her husband was bishop. In 1927 the family moved to Boise and she served five years on the Boise Stake Relief Board. Always interested in singing groups she was a member of choirs and Singing Mothers groups for forty years. In Logan she was president of the Yeshara Club, captain and secretary of the Zina Diantha Huntington Young daughters of Pioneers. In the Ninth Ward she was head of the special interest group for seven years. For many years she was a Relief Society visiting teacher and literary class leader. Surviving are four sons and daughters; Mrs. Floyd T. (Edith) Morgan, Logan; John S. Welch. Bountiful, and Mrs. Norman (Julie) Siringer, San Mateo, California, and eleven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Hall Mortuary Chapel with Bishop H. Dean Nelson of the Logan Ninth Ward officiating. Friends may call at the Mortuary Wednesday from seven to nine p.m. and Thursday one hour prior to service. Burial will be in the family plot in the Mendon cemetery. ~The Herald Journal, January 1616, 1968, page 7.

Logan— Mrs. Eulalia Sorensen Welch, 77 of 575 North 1st East died of natural causes January 15th at home. Born April 1st, 1890, Mendon, Cache County, to Isaac and Mary Jacobsen Sorensen. Graduate of Brigham Young College normal school. Taught in Cache and Box Elder counties. Married to John S. Welch, June 18th, 1913, Logan L.D.S. Temple. He died in 1947. Served on mission with husband in New Zealand. Jerome, Boise, Idaho resident several years. Former president of the Yeshara Club, Logan. Member Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Survivors: sons, daughters, Mrs. Floyd T. (Edith) Morgan, Logan; John S., Los Angeles; Robert S., Bountiful; Mrs. Norma Julie Siringer, San Mater, California; eleven grandchildren. Funeral Thursday, 2:30 p.m., Hall Mortuary Chapel, where friends call Wednesday 7–9 p.m., Thursday after 1:30 p.m. Burial Mendon City Cemetery. ~Newspaper not listed.



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