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Show Salt Lake Tribune May 4 - 57 Prominent Ogden Woman, Active LDS Worker, Dies Special to The Tribune OGDEN — Mrs. Valborg Henrietta Rasmussen Wheelwright. 81, prominent in women's activities here, died Thursday night of causes inci- dent to age. W m Mrs. Wheelwright was the mother of Dr. Lorin F. Wheelwright, member of the Deseret -Sunday School Union General Board Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and former music supervisor for Salt Lake City Schools. Mrs. Wheelwright Born June 3, 1875, in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Godtfred Wilhelm and Henrietta Louise Rasmussen, Mrs. Wheelwright was an organizer of the Women's Legislative Council in Ogden and had served on the board of trustees of the Utah State School for the Blind. MRS. WHEELWRIGHT received her early education in the public and Lutheran schools in Copenhagen and came to Utah in 1888. She was married to David R. Wheelwright on Nov. 28, 1900, in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1904 she fulfilled an LDS mission to Denmark, where her husband was secretary of the Scandinavian Mission. They returned in 1905 and made their home in Ogden. Mrs. Wheelwright was a graduate of Weber College and the University of Utah. She also attended Northwestern University. For two years she did social work in Ogden and during the depression operated a free employment agency in her home for women and girls. A member of the LDS Church, she was active in Sunday School, MIA and Relief Society work. Surviving, besides her husband, are: three sons, Dr. Sterling Wheelwright, professor at San Francisco State College, now in the Orient; Dr. Lorin F. Wheelwright and Max Wheelwright, both of Salt Lake City; 11 grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. in the I Mount Ogden-Highland LDS I Ward chapel with John Price, bishop, officiating. Friends maj j call at the Larkin Mortuary Ogden, Sunday from 4 to 9 p.n and Monday until noon. Burial will be in Brigham City. |