ELEANOR JEREMY RICHARDS

Former S. L. Teacher Dies

Mrs. Eleanor Jeremy Richards, 62, of 2185 Twenty-first East Street, a former member of the Primary General Board, died at a local hospital at 8:30 this morning [August 24, 1939] of a lingering illness.

Mrs. Richards was born in Salt Lake Sept. 29, 1877, a daughter of John and Sarah Ann Riley Jeremy.

After graduating from high school and the University of Utah, Mrs. Richards taught in the Salt Lake City and County schools for 20 years. She was president of the Primary Association of the Fifteenth Ward here and was later president of the Salt Lake Stake Primary Board.

She served as a member of the Primary General Board from 1913 to 1919, having been sustained to that position on May 11, 1913.

For 13 years, she served as a missionary on the Temple Block.

She was married to William H. Richards, president of Malad Stake, June 26, 1919, and moving to Idaho became president of the Malad Stake Relief Society Board and as a counselor in the Primary Association presidency of the Malad Stake.

Mrs. Richards visited Great Britain in 1900.

Surviving are her husband, William H. Richards; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Jeremy Anderson and Mrs. Rachel Jeremy Ashton, wife of Bishop M. O. Ashton, of Salt Lake.

Funeral services will be announced later.