Mary E. Earp, a long time resident of the Mack district in the lower valley, and for the past twenty months a resident of this city, passed away Sunday evening about 9 o'clock at the family home, 862 Ute avenue, following an extended illness. Mrs. Earp was the wife of J.R. Earp and the mother of Victor Earp, former engineer on the Uintah railway out of Mack, who in recent years has made this city his home. Mrs. Earp was born in Fairfield, Indiana, November 27th, 1857, and was 67 years, 7 months of age at the time of her death. The body is now at Martin's Funeral Home, from where the funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. This service will be conducted by the Rev. Mr. Sharp of Fruita, with interment in the Fruita cemetery. Mary E. Earp was born at Fairfield, Indiana [Franklin county], November 27, 1857. She left Indiana in 1870 with her parents and located in Jasper county, Iowa. She married in 1886 to J.R. Earp and homesteaded in Wheeler county, Nebraska, and lived there until 1918, then moved to north of Mack, Colorado, and in 1925 moved to Grand Junction where she resided until her death, June 26 [1927]. She was a conscientious Christian mother, always working for the good of her community and young people. Through all her sickness, which lasted several months, she was patient and even when suffering, thought of others more than herself. She leaves to mourn her going, her husband, J.R. Earp of 862 Ute avenue, two daughters, Mrs. Vernon Snavely and Mrs. William Knap of Mack, Colorado, and a son, Victor Earp, employed by the Uintah Railway company, four grand children, her sister, Mrs. Katheryn Brown of Dallas Center, Iowa, who came June 3 to be with her and a brother J.W. Apple of Douglas, Oklahoma, who visited here last November (The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, 27 Jun 1927, p. 8)