1873 - 1955
OBITUARY
IDA SMOOT DUSENBERRY, WELL
KNOWN EDUCATOR, DIES AT 81
Ida Smoot Dusenberry, 81, 356 N. 1st E., died at Utah Valley Hospital Monday night following a short illness.
She was born May 5, 1873, in Salt Lake City, daughter of Abraham Owen and Christine Mortensen [Anne Kerstine *Mauritzen or Morrison] Smoot, and received her education in the Provo schools, graduating from Brigham Young University. She taught BY Elementary School kindergarten for many years and also taught at Brigham Young University, retiring from the psychology department in 1945.
She married George Albert Dusenberry in Provo and he died in 1898 [1901]. A member of the LDS Church, she was a counselor of the General Board of the Relief Society for 25 years.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Albert E. (Margaret) Terry, Provo; and one grandchild.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p. m. in the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, with Bishop Thomas A. Wolsey, of the Provo Fifth Ward, officiating.
- Daily Herald | Provo, Utah | 26 Apr 1955 | p. 4 | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley
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*NOTE: Ida's mother's maiden name, Mauritzen is interchanged with Morrison in some records.
1873 - 1955
OBITUARY
IDA SMOOT DUSENBERRY, WELL
KNOWN EDUCATOR, DIES AT 81
Ida Smoot Dusenberry, 81, 356 N. 1st E., died at Utah Valley Hospital Monday night following a short illness.
She was born May 5, 1873, in Salt Lake City, daughter of Abraham Owen and Christine Mortensen [Anne Kerstine *Mauritzen or Morrison] Smoot, and received her education in the Provo schools, graduating from Brigham Young University. She taught BY Elementary School kindergarten for many years and also taught at Brigham Young University, retiring from the psychology department in 1945.
She married George Albert Dusenberry in Provo and he died in 1898 [1901]. A member of the LDS Church, she was a counselor of the General Board of the Relief Society for 25 years.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Albert E. (Margaret) Terry, Provo; and one grandchild.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 1 p. m. in the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, with Bishop Thomas A. Wolsey, of the Provo Fifth Ward, officiating.
- Daily Herald | Provo, Utah | 26 Apr 1955 | p. 4 | transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley
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*NOTE: Ida's mother's maiden name, Mauritzen is interchanged with Morrison in some records.
Inscription
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Gravesite Details
Interment - 28 Apr 1955
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Anna Christina "Annie" Smoot Taylor
1858–1904
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Alice Smoot Newell
1860–1950
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Reed Smoot
1862–1941
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Agnes May Smoot Glazier
1866–1945
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Brigham Roland Smoot
1869–1946
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William Cochrane Adkinson Smoot
1828–1920
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Margaret Thompson Smoot Dusenberry
1854–1932
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Nancy Diana Smoot Beebe
1858–1939
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Zina Beal Smoot Whitney
1859–1900
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Olive Smoot Bean
1860–1943
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Leonora Ann Smoot
1864–1868
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Joseph Edmund Smoot
1866–1890
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Ella Deseret Smoot Robison
1869–1916
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Vilate "Dottie" Smoot Pierpont
1873–1955
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Orson Parley Smoot
1876–1936
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Horace Alma Smoot
1880–1964
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Wilford Smoot
1882–1953
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