Services Will Take Place Wednesday, In 18th Ward Chapel
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis Shorten, 76, wife of George Shorten of 521 Twenty-Seventh Street, will be held Wednesday at two-thirty p. m. in the L. D. S. Eighteenth Ward. Bishop Grant Lofgreen will preside
Friends may call at the family residence Tuesday after two p.m. and Wednesday, until time of the services. Interment will be in the family plot in Ogden City Cemetery under direction of Lindquist & Sons.
Mrs. Shorten. died Sunday morning at the family home after a lingering illness. She was the daughter of John Ellis and Mary Ann Emmett, handcart pioneers who settlad in Ogden. She was, born in Ogden August 26, 1861, in the old Ellis home on Wall Avenue, and married Mr. Shorten August 17, 1882.
A member of the L.D.S. Second Ward until 1924 when the Eighteenth Ward was organized, she was a former president of the Second Ward Relief Society and had been a visiting teacher in the Eighteenth Ward for several years. She was a member of Camp J, Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Mrs. Shorten is survived by her husband and the following sons and daughters: D. George Shorten, Mrs. Heber J. McKay and John L. Shorten, of Ogden; Norman E. Shorten, Chicago; Mrs. W. H. Pyott, Salt Lake City; Mrs. A. C. Stout, St. Anthony, Idaho; Mrs. L. C. Scoville, Rosemeade, Calif., and Mrs. Harold H. Holmes, Lovelock, Nevada. She had 25 grandchildren.
-Ogden Standard Examiner, May 31, 1937, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
death certificate
Children: Pauline Shorten Stout, Josephine Shorten Scoville
Parents
Father: John ELLIS
Mother: Mary Ann EMMETT
Marriage(s)
Spouse: George SHORTEN
Services Will Take Place Wednesday, In 18th Ward Chapel
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis Shorten, 76, wife of George Shorten of 521 Twenty-Seventh Street, will be held Wednesday at two-thirty p. m. in the L. D. S. Eighteenth Ward. Bishop Grant Lofgreen will preside
Friends may call at the family residence Tuesday after two p.m. and Wednesday, until time of the services. Interment will be in the family plot in Ogden City Cemetery under direction of Lindquist & Sons.
Mrs. Shorten. died Sunday morning at the family home after a lingering illness. She was the daughter of John Ellis and Mary Ann Emmett, handcart pioneers who settlad in Ogden. She was, born in Ogden August 26, 1861, in the old Ellis home on Wall Avenue, and married Mr. Shorten August 17, 1882.
A member of the L.D.S. Second Ward until 1924 when the Eighteenth Ward was organized, she was a former president of the Second Ward Relief Society and had been a visiting teacher in the Eighteenth Ward for several years. She was a member of Camp J, Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Mrs. Shorten is survived by her husband and the following sons and daughters: D. George Shorten, Mrs. Heber J. McKay and John L. Shorten, of Ogden; Norman E. Shorten, Chicago; Mrs. W. H. Pyott, Salt Lake City; Mrs. A. C. Stout, St. Anthony, Idaho; Mrs. L. C. Scoville, Rosemeade, Calif., and Mrs. Harold H. Holmes, Lovelock, Nevada. She had 25 grandchildren.
-Ogden Standard Examiner, May 31, 1937, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
death certificate
Children: Pauline Shorten Stout, Josephine Shorten Scoville
Parents
Father: John ELLIS
Mother: Mary Ann EMMETT
Marriage(s)
Spouse: George SHORTEN
Family Members
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David George Shorten
1883–1961
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Norman Ellis Shorten
1885–1959
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Mabel Maryann Shorten McKay
1888–1963
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Ralph Edward Shorten
1890–1918
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Elsie Elizabeth Shorten Pyott
1893–1979
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Mary Pauline Shorten Stout
1895–1960
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Josephine Shorten Scoville
1899–1990
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John LeRoy Shorten
1901–1981
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Elenore Shorten Holmes
1906–1942
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