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Show EMMA , MAY COOPER Appointed 1944 to BURNS 1945 appointed by Governor Herbert B. Maw to fill of Jean Murdock who died after she had served thirteen months of her two year term. Burns, May unexpired was the term for May, too, was a prominent and active Davis County woman, born April 13, 1883 in Bountiful, the daughter of Heber Kimball and Emma Jan Hatch Cooper. On December 28, 1904, she married James Edward Burns. He died June 9, 1957. was a charter member of the Bountiful Fine Arts Guild; member of the Margaret Cowen Bryson Camp and the Kimball the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. May charter of Camp Burns was active in the LDS Church where she was president of the Stake Relief Society; a literature leader in that organization for 45 years and was also active in Sunday School and the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. Rep. In not 1954 May easily elected Davis County Mother of the Year, an honor by. She was president of the Utah Chapter of the Legislators from 1955 through 1956 taking over that Sophronia Forsberg was forced to resign because of was come Order of Women position when illness. Mollie Graham, first president of the Utah OWLs, who had an eye to history in later years, characterized some of the members of that organization. Of May Burns, she wrote: "A quiet, sympathetic nature takes life too seriously." But a good woman to have around in an emergency, it would seem. - On May 9, 1968, Florence Searle, Carol Reed. May Burns James C., died of a stroke leaving six children; Alan C., Grace Lance, June Taylor and 115 |
