June 1942 – Passage. ASHTON, June 25. Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Antoinette Van Orden Karren, 76, who died Monday afternoon following a lingering illness, were conducted Wednesday at the L. D. S. chapel, with Floyd Blanchard, bishop, officiating.

FUNERAL. The opening prayer was offered by Bishop Blanchard. Speakers were Hyrum Larsen and Horace A. Hess, Yellowstone stake president. The benediction was offered by Dimond Loosli. A quartet composed of Mr. Myrtle Millward, Mrs. E. E. Pence, Mrs. J. T. Lyon and Mrs. Earl Smith sang “Beautiful Ise of Somewhere” and “Sometime We’ll Understand,” accompanied by Miss Peggy Wood at the piano. A duet, “That Wonderful Mother of Mine,” was sung by Marva and Idris Egbert, granddaughters of Mrs. Karren, accompanied at the piano by Joyce Hendrickson. A trio composed of Marjean Harris, Yutonna Glover and Louise Biorn, sang “Whispering Hope.”

BORN AT KAYSVILLE. Mrs. Karren was born at Kaysville, Utah, November 9, 1865. Her childhood ways were spent at Kaysville. At the age of 21 years she was married to Thomas W. Karren, in the L. D. S. Temple at Logan, Utah. Her husband and three children preceded her in death. They lived at Vernal, Utah, for five years and then moved to Lewiston, Utah, where they lived until they moved to Idaho in 1893. They settled on a homestead on Fall River, four miles south of Ashton, and experienced all the hardships and privations of early pioneer life. Since her husband’s death, she has lived in Ashton.

SURVIVORS. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gene Marshall, Monday, June 22. She is survived by two sons, W. E. Karren of Redondo Beach, Calif., and Thomas E. “Ted” Karren of Ashton, and six daughters, Mrs. Ruby Ashcroft of Redondo, Calif.,, Mrs. Edith Gee of St. Anthony, Mrs. Delphia Marshall of Ashton, Mrs. George Dicks of Los Angeles, Mrs. Marie Egbert of Ashton,. Mrs. Evelyn Preston of Los Angeles; two brothers, P. E. Van Orlen of Lewiston, Utah, and C. L. Van Orden of Goshen, Idaho; two sisters, Mrs. Henryetta Lapen of Santa Anna, Calif., Edith Glover of Marysville, Idaho, 18 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Russ Egbert, Tom Egbert, Don Marshall, Gene Marshall of Ashton, J. E. Gee of St. Anthony and Jay Roberts of Sugar City.

Burial was in Pineview cemetery, under the direction of the Kiser mortuary. –From the newspaper files of The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho, published Thursday, June 25, 1942, Page 8.