Susie May Wood Dies at Age 91
In Salt Lake City
Funeral services were held in the Auburn Ward Chapel Tuesday, Feb 7 at 1 p.m., with Bp Demar Hillyard conduction, for Susie May Walton Wood, 91, a Star Valley pioneer resident, who died Friday, Feb.3, 1967, at Salt Lake City, Utah of causes incident to age. Burial was in the Auburn Cemetery beside her husband.
Susie May Walton was born Dec. 21, 1875, at Woodruff Utah, to Samuel A. and Eliza Kent Call Walton. Her early life was spent in Woodruff. When she was 13 years old, her parents left Utah and came to Auburn, Wyo., where her father homesteaded some land. She attended school for two years in a one room school house in Auburn.
She married Daniel T. Wood in the Logan Temple on Oct. 24, 1894. They returned to live in a house they had started building onto as their family grew. She lived in the same house for 64 years, until her health began to fail, and she moved to Salt Lake City.
She had a hard life without many modern conveniences, but she never complained nor thought her lot was hard. She had great compassion for people in sorrow and need. She was a wonderful wife and mother, kind and gentle, tolerant and forgiving. She loved flowers and spent many hours caring for them.
She was the mother of 13 children, four of whom preceded her in death: Russell, Bertha, and twins, Verl and Earl who died in youth.
Active in the LDS Church, she loved the gospel and worked in many positions, including MIA and Primary and Relief Society, serving in the Relief Society presidency for many years. She often went with horse and buggy to care for the sick and sit up and sew for the dead. She was a devoted wife, and worked by the side of her husband during the eight years he served in the bishopric and 15 years as bishop of the Auburn Ward.
She was left twice during her married life, while her husband filled missions for the church. They had four children when her husband left to fill a six month mission in Emery County, Utah, and the day he returned their fifth child was born. Again, when they had eight children, Daniel T was called to the Southern States Mission for two years.
She and her husband observed their 50th Wedding Anniversary with a party in 1944. Many of their family were there to help them enjoy it. In 1954 the family again had a 60th wedding anniversary for them.
She is survived by the following sons and daughters; Ada Hillyard, Afton; Mrs. Russell (Ila) Wilkes, Bedford; Percy L. Wood, Baker Ore.; Lula Griffith, Burbank, Calif.; Jesse E. Wood, Murray, Utah; Mrs. Dean (Elgin) Anderson, San Gabriel, Calif.; Don W. Wood, Afton; Denzel W. Wood, Logan; and Thomas G. Wood, Montpelier, Idaho. Also surviving are 48 grandchildren, 120 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great grandchildren.

Susan May WALTON is the daughter of Samuel Augustine WALTON and Eliza Catherine KENT
Susan May WALTON married Daniel Thomas WOOD 24 Oct 1894
in Logan, Cache, Ut