OBIT - Provo Daily Herald - 8 January 1961
Utah Pioneer, Orem Woman Dies at 95
Maude Wheelock Farnworth, 95, died Saturday afternoon at the Orem rest home following a lingering illness.
She was born in Mt. Pleasant on Oct. 16, 1865, a daughter of Cyrus H. and Marian Dallen Wheelock. She was married to Charles Henry Farnworth on Dec. 20, 1883, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died in 1938.
They made their home in Mt. Pleasant until 1899 when they moved to Idaho and helped settle the Lost River Valley area. She was responsible for the naming of Chilly, Ida. She had lived in Orem since 1928.
An active member of the LDS Church she had held a number of positions in the Primary and Relief Society.
The mother of four sons and a daughter, two sons survive her; George Cyrus Farnworth, Jerome, Ida.; Ivan A. Farnworth, Orem; 20 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Olin-Sundberg Mortuary Chapel with Bishop Leland Prestwich of the Orem 16th LDS Ward conducting. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday prior to service. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Utah Pioneer, Orem Woman Dies at 95
Maude Wheelock Farnworth, 95, died Saturday afternoon at the Orem rest home following a lingering illness.
She was born in Mt. Pleasant on Oct. 16, 1865, a daughter of Cyrus H. and Marian Dallen Wheelock. She was married to Charles Henry Farnworth on Dec. 20, 1883, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died in 1938.
They made their home in Mt. Pleasant until 1899 when they moved to Idaho and helped settle the Lost River Valley area. She was responsible for the naming of Chilly, Ida. She had lived in Orem since 1928.
An active member of the LDS Church she had held a number of positions in the Primary and Relief Society.
The mother of four sons and a daughter, two sons survive her; George Cyrus Farnworth, Jerome, Ida.; Ivan A. Farnworth, Orem; 20 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Olin-Sundberg Mortuary Chapel with Bishop Leland Prestwich of the Orem 16th LDS Ward conducting. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday prior to service. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
OBIT - Provo Daily Herald - 8 January 1961
Utah Pioneer, Orem Woman Dies at 95
Maude Wheelock Farnworth, 95, died Saturday afternoon at the Orem rest home following a lingering illness.
She was born in Mt. Pleasant on Oct. 16, 1865, a daughter of Cyrus H. and Marian Dallen Wheelock. She was married to Charles Henry Farnworth on Dec. 20, 1883, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died in 1938.
They made their home in Mt. Pleasant until 1899 when they moved to Idaho and helped settle the Lost River Valley area. She was responsible for the naming of Chilly, Ida. She had lived in Orem since 1928.
An active member of the LDS Church she had held a number of positions in the Primary and Relief Society.
The mother of four sons and a daughter, two sons survive her; George Cyrus Farnworth, Jerome, Ida.; Ivan A. Farnworth, Orem; 20 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Olin-Sundberg Mortuary Chapel with Bishop Leland Prestwich of the Orem 16th LDS Ward conducting. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday prior to service. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
Utah Pioneer, Orem Woman Dies at 95
Maude Wheelock Farnworth, 95, died Saturday afternoon at the Orem rest home following a lingering illness.
She was born in Mt. Pleasant on Oct. 16, 1865, a daughter of Cyrus H. and Marian Dallen Wheelock. She was married to Charles Henry Farnworth on Dec. 20, 1883, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died in 1938.
They made their home in Mt. Pleasant until 1899 when they moved to Idaho and helped settle the Lost River Valley area. She was responsible for the naming of Chilly, Ida. She had lived in Orem since 1928.
An active member of the LDS Church she had held a number of positions in the Primary and Relief Society.
The mother of four sons and a daughter, two sons survive her; George Cyrus Farnworth, Jerome, Ida.; Ivan A. Farnworth, Orem; 20 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Olin-Sundberg Mortuary Chapel with Bishop Leland Prestwich of the Orem 16th LDS Ward conducting. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday prior to service. Burial will be in the Provo City Cemetery.
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