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Show In 1918 care by doctors and professors. a Child Welfare Committee which weighed and of chair she was in and Utah Lake Sal t chi ldren of measured 13,639 pre-school connection with a United States Goverment survey. being instructed in health War I she was a member of Distribution ReI ief Commi t tee. During World Food the Herbert Hoover National She was a charter member of the Women's Civic Center; President of the Utah Congress of PTAs from 1919 to 1922, also a vice president for three years and a member of the board for twenty; member of the Women's Legi,slative Council and the Legislative Committee of the Women's Republican Federation; charter member and chairman of the of the Ci ty Salt Lake Ci ty Free Clinic and Dispensary; member Recreation Commi ttee; also the Adul t and Heal th Education Commi ttee Defense the and of the Chiuld Welfare Committee City Council Committee. 1927 she became a member of the Legislature where she served two in the House. School s were her foremost concern. She was Chair of the Committee on the Industrial School and the School for the Deaf and Blind; member of Corporations; Buildings and Public In terms Public Health and Welfare. Bill vigorously; and was chair o a needs for home economics and manual Grounds; She promoted the Kindergarten committee appointed to survey training in the schools. She was first vice president of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Central member of the Uni versi ty of Utah Mothers CI ub, Camp, Service Star Legion, Relief Society and the National Pioneer Trails and Landmarks. active in the L.D.S. church holding many positions, children, eight of whom survived her. Her sister "A pI easing personal i ty, wrote, a describing her, perfect housekeeper, a lover of shrubbery, flowers and grass about her home. A splendid seamstress. Throughout her life homemaking was a profession worth doing well and motherhood was the greatest calling Rep. Tanner mother of of in was ten woman." "She not son-in-law said, only works herself but she has everybody else working." An organizer. She had to be to have accomplished what she did. She was never idle. Her hobbies were quilting, crocheting, knitting and weaving on a small loom. A On June after 80 a 20, 1958 at the age of Hers lingering illness. t hd s 91, was a full busy and woman passed away rewarding life. |
