Transcribed from Salt Lake Telegram - September 30, 1938, page 16 under the headline "Death Claims, L. D. S. Leader" 2nd paragraph

A church and social leader, Mrs. Macfarlane was one of the founders of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, having been first captain of camp 27. She also was active in the Twenty-seventh L. D. S. ward Relief society.

Transcribed from Washington County News - October 6, 1938, page 1

Mrs. Nora Macfarlane, Dixie Pioneer, Dies in Salt Lake City

Word was received in St. George Friday, Sept. 30, of the death in Salt Lake City that morning of Mrs. Nora Macfarlane, 73, wife of the late John M. Macfarlane, who returned to St. George to spend several weeks prior to his death, which occurred May 3 of this year.

Many relatives in St. George attended the services for Mrs. Macfarlane which were held in the twenty-seventh ward chapel of Salt Lake City, Sunday, Oct. 2. Among them were Mrs. Manomas Andrus, aged 96, her sons, A. B. and Charles Andrus and daughter, Mrs.Vilate Wadsworth and Mrs. Pearl Morris. Also Mrs. Tina Macfarlane, R. U. Macfarlane, A. N. Winsor and daughter Miss Tille, and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. J. Milne.

Mrs. Nora Macfarlane was born in St. George November 27, 1865, daughter of the late Capt. James Andrus and his wife, Laura Gibson Andrus. She grew up and had her early schooling in St. George, being prominent in religious and social affairs of this city, in which her husband was also an outstanding citizen. They moved to Salt Lake in 1905 where Mrs. Macfarlane gained recognition in state affairs.

She married John M. Macfarlane in the St. George Temple, February 24, 1886. To them were born five children, one daughter died in infancy and their other daughter, Laura, died a few years ago. Surviving are their three sons, Dr. Wallace Macfarlane of Berkeley, Calif.; J. M. Macfarlane Jr., of Pleasant Grove, and Attorney Grant Macfarlane, of Salt Lake City.

Mrs. Macfarlane makes the third member of her family to die in the past 18 months. A brother, Milo, died in May 1937, and James Jr. (Bud) Andrus, last November. Her death leaves only one survivor of Laura Gibson Andrus, Mrs. Thamizan Lund, now residing in Salt Lake City. Manomas L. Gibson Andrus, eldest woman in the west, was second wife of Captain James Andrus and sister of his first wife. She seems to have suffered no ill effects from this trip and expresses herself as happy that she was able to be with the Macfarlane boys during their sorrow. The children of these two sisters have always been closely associated, and it was like losing her own daughter, says grandma Andrus.