Pearl D. Braegger (BIRTH 18 May 1898)

OGDEN – Mrs. Pearl Denning Bragger, 52 of 781 Thirteenth St. died Wednesday at 12:30 a.m. After an extended illness.

Mrs. Braegger was born May 18, 1898 at Malad, Idaho, a daughter of Uriah H. and Agnes Henderson Denning. She attended school at Malad and Paris, Idaho, and entered nurses training at the Thomas D. Dee Hospital in Ogden.

She graduated in the class of 1918, and for several years was employed by Dr. W. H. Petty and Dr. W. S. Paine as a dental assistant. On Nov. 1, 1924, she was married to Frank A. Braegger in Willard, Utah, and they received endowments in the Salt Lake Temple in March 1940. Mr. Braegger is an Ogden City fireman and a counselor in the Ogden Ninth Ward.

Mrs. Braegger was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was active in Relief Society, being a block teacher and district supervisor. She was also one of the organizers of the girl’s camp association in that ward. She was a member of the Dee hospital nurses alumni association and had been a member of the auxiliary to the Ogden city firemen.

Surviving are her husband and a daughter, Miss Jeanne Braegger, a student at Brigham Young University, a brother, Robert H. Denning. Boulder City Nevada, and two sisters, Mrs. David E. Nelson, Tooele, Utah and Mrs. H. Vernon Webb, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Lindquist and Sons Funeral chapel. Bishop Cecil Rushforth of the Ninth Ward will officiate.

Friends may call at this mortuary Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday until time of services.

Burial will be in Ogden City Cemetery under the direction of Lindquist and Sons.