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Show Three Beloved Women Have Passed Almost Together Within the current week three estimable and well known women of Utah have passed away. Each in her sphere was an influence for good; each contributed to the happiness and welfare of the circle in which she lived; each was a noble representative of her sex. Miss Alice Louise Reynolds, professor of English literature at the Brigham Young university, was a native daughter of the state and a natural instructor of youth. She had been a teacher in the public schools of Salt Lake City, Nephi and Provo before attending the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, California and London. As a member of the faculty of the educational institution in Provo she won national recognition as an authority on English classics. A college library and 21 literary societies in the United States are named in her honor. Her death deprives the church, state and cause of education of a real leader. Mrs. Julia Budge Nibley, a native of Farmington, in Davis county, was brought up in Paris, Idaho, where her father, the late William Budge, had been sent to preside over a struggling settlement. Here she attended school, became the first telegraph operator in the old Deseret organization headed by W. B. Dougall, and also served as the first postmistress of that community. She was wedded to the late Charles W. Nibley 53 years ago. A devout, self sacrificing member of the Mormon church and many of its subsidiary organizations, she will be greatly missed, not only by her immediate family, but by 21 brothers and sisters and a multitude of devoted friends. Mrs. Effie Eleanor Gee Quigley, widow of the late Charles A. Quigley, one of the most energetic and enterprising boosters of Utah in his time, was born in New York City, but came to Salt Lake City at seven years of age when her father, William Wallace Gee, accepted an appointment as territorial district judge. She was a charter member of the Catholic Womans league, a member of the Ladies Literary club and other social and charitable associations, in which she was active until retirement eight years ago. Tactful, vivacious and cultivated, she leaves a large circle of friends to mourn her passing. Each in her field of endeavor and achievement exerted a beneficial influence and deserves to be honored and remembered as a factor in the cultural development of the commonwealth. |