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Show 286 her long life-she should have been singled out as a suitable candidate for that kind of pain. We can imagine with what faith and stoicism she lived out her final months. Milford had just passed his 82nd birthday when he died in March of 1918. Ellis had just passed her 92nd in January of 1939 when she departed. The initial announcement of her death had her funeral services posted for Friday. Another later announcement stated that because all of her family could not reach Salt Lake City in time for Friday, the service would be postponed to Sunday- Olea and her family, having to travel from Idaho in midwinter, and others from California, were thus accommodated. The Yale L.D.S. Ward chapel at 1447 Gilmer Drive was the setting. We have two accounts of the funeral. Vicky Burgess-Olson concludes her article on Ellis in this fashion: Eulogies delivered at Ellis Shipp's funeral praised her as a dutiful public servant. They alos made it plain that her life had been hard. Those closest to her recalled her devotion to her children, who were always uppermost in her mind and subject of her final semiconscious murmurings: "I am so glad to see them. I haven't been with them for a long time..."17 The second was included in the previously-mentioned newspaper article. Speakers included Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon, George Albert Smith, Miss Ruth May Fox and Levi Edgar Young, organd prelude and postlude, and accompaniments for solos by John Longden, the Lindsay sister and Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart McMaster, were played by Wade N. Stephens. Theodore E. Curtis Sr. delivered the opening prayer, and Bishop Gaskell Romney, the benediction. Burial was in City cemetery. |