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Britha Maria “Mary” <I>Wall</I> Bjelke

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Britha Maria “Mary” Wall Bjelke

Birth
Sweden
Death
6 Jul 1931 (aged 84)
Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA
Burial
Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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OBITUARY OF MRS. MARY BJELKE

MOUNT PLEASANT -- Mrs. Mary Wall BJELKE, 84, widow of Carl G. BJELKE, pioneer shoemaker of this city, and a Mount Pleasant resident 67 years, died Monday evening a the family home following a paralytic stroke.

Mrs. BJELKE came to Utah and Mount Pleasant in 1857 from Vanersberg, Sweden, where she was born May 23, 1847, a daughter of Carl and Katherine WALL. She was married the same year in Mount Pleasant and had resided here continuously since, excepting the winter of 1866-67, when her husband was enrolled with the Blackhawk war company, and they were in Moroni. Mr. BJELKE died in 1909.

She is survived by a daughter and two sons, Mrs. G. W. BRAND, J. A. and O W. BJELKE, Mount Pleasant; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church with interment in the family plot in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery.

(Published in The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), Wednesday, July 08, 1931.)
OBITUARY OF MRS. MARY BJELKE

MOUNT PLEASANT -- Mrs. Mary Wall BJELKE, 84, widow of Carl G. BJELKE, pioneer shoemaker of this city, and a Mount Pleasant resident 67 years, died Monday evening a the family home following a paralytic stroke.

Mrs. BJELKE came to Utah and Mount Pleasant in 1857 from Vanersberg, Sweden, where she was born May 23, 1847, a daughter of Carl and Katherine WALL. She was married the same year in Mount Pleasant and had resided here continuously since, excepting the winter of 1866-67, when her husband was enrolled with the Blackhawk war company, and they were in Moroni. Mr. BJELKE died in 1909.

She is survived by a daughter and two sons, Mrs. G. W. BRAND, J. A. and O W. BJELKE, Mount Pleasant; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church with interment in the family plot in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery.

(Published in The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), Wednesday, July 08, 1931.)


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