Florence
May Perkins
News Examiner, Thursday, 28 October 1937,
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Funeral services for Mrs. May Perkins, wife of Ira Perkins were held in the Montpelier First ward Tuesday at 1 pm. Mrs. Perkins died last Friday evening, October 22nd from complication following childbirth. She was born in Staffordshire, England in 1902, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Crumpton. At the age of nine she came to America with her widowed mother, who later married R William Webb of Laketown. She was married to Ira Perkins July 3, 1919.
Most of her life has been spent in the Bear Lake district, the Perkins family having lived at Bloomington, Paris, Fish Haven and Montpelier. Surviving are her husband and the following children, Elaine, Glenn, Richard, Melvin, Gilbert, Virginia, Ruth and an infant boy. Also her mother, Mrs. William Webb of Salt Lake City; a sister, Mrs. Emily Hunter and two half sisters, Mrs. Gladys Nelson and Mrs. Edith Steele all of Salt Lake City.
The services were conducted by Bishop Louis Perkins. Opening song, "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" by choir; invocation, Martin Winters; song "Sometime We'll Understand"; first speaker, Hyrum Nebeker; duet, Mrs. R C Williamson and Winslow Swensen; second speaker, President Ed C Rich. Bishop Perkins gave a few words of encouragement; closing son, "Rock of Ages"; benediction, Clarence Swensen.
Interment was in the Montpelier cemetery.