From The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) - Friday, February 24, 1956:
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Pike Greenwood, 75, Sacramento, Cal., a well-known former Utah writer and a native of Provo who died Wednesday in Sacramento, will be conducted Saturday there. Cremation will follow and her ashes will be returned to Provo.
She had contributed to Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Country Gentleman, and to local magazines and newspapers. Her book of poems, "This Is My Song" and several other books were published.
White at Brigham Young Academy she wrote the lyrics of the school song still being sung at the school. She received the Distinguished Service Award from BYU about 1945 and we elected a member of the Emeritus Club.
She also attended the University of Utah and the University of Michigan. Mrs. Greenwood taught school at Payson and later at a small country school in Idaho and Idaho State Technical Institute, now Idaho State College. Several years ago she went on a lecture tour of Utah and Montana. She wrote and produced radio dramas in Salt Lake City at one time. She was a member of Rupert, Idaho, Order of Eastern Star.
Born in Provo, November 16, 1880, she was a daughter of Dr. Walter R. And Hattie Druce Pike. She married Charles O. Greenwood in Los Angeles, Cal., about 1906. He died in Santa Fe last year.
Surviving are three sons and a daughter: Charles O. Greenwood, Jr., Sacramento, Cal.; Walter P. Greenwood, Coulee Dam, Wash.; Joseph L. Greenwood, Spokane, Wash.; and Mrs. Horace K. Thurber Jr., Ogden; 12 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. R. S. Oliver, Mill Valley, Cal.
From The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) - Friday, February 24, 1956:
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Pike Greenwood, 75, Sacramento, Cal., a well-known former Utah writer and a native of Provo who died Wednesday in Sacramento, will be conducted Saturday there. Cremation will follow and her ashes will be returned to Provo.
She had contributed to Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Country Gentleman, and to local magazines and newspapers. Her book of poems, "This Is My Song" and several other books were published.
White at Brigham Young Academy she wrote the lyrics of the school song still being sung at the school. She received the Distinguished Service Award from BYU about 1945 and we elected a member of the Emeritus Club.
She also attended the University of Utah and the University of Michigan. Mrs. Greenwood taught school at Payson and later at a small country school in Idaho and Idaho State Technical Institute, now Idaho State College. Several years ago she went on a lecture tour of Utah and Montana. She wrote and produced radio dramas in Salt Lake City at one time. She was a member of Rupert, Idaho, Order of Eastern Star.
Born in Provo, November 16, 1880, she was a daughter of Dr. Walter R. And Hattie Druce Pike. She married Charles O. Greenwood in Los Angeles, Cal., about 1906. He died in Santa Fe last year.
Surviving are three sons and a daughter: Charles O. Greenwood, Jr., Sacramento, Cal.; Walter P. Greenwood, Coulee Dam, Wash.; Joseph L. Greenwood, Spokane, Wash.; and Mrs. Horace K. Thurber Jr., Ogden; 12 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. R. S. Oliver, Mill Valley, Cal.
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