MARY BROOKS ROSE

Mrs. Mary Brooks Rose.

Mrs. Mary Rose, wife of Alfred Rose, died Monday afternoon at her home in Pleasantview. She was born in England in the year 1870 in a suburb of London. she was an only child. Her father died when she was ten years old, leaving her the sole support of her widowed mother. When she was eighteen her mother died, leaving her without relatives. Previous to this she had become converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, being a convert of Prof. J. H. Paul, of the University of Utah. She crossed the ocean in the ship with a company of Saints and Elders, both from the Birmingham and London conferences. Prof. Paul having charge of this party of saints. Mrs. Rose was accompanied on this voyage by a girlhood friends, Annie E. Barradale[sic], who has ever remained a true and trusted friend and sister to her during their sojourn here.

Soon after her arrival in America she located in Centerville, Utah, where she was married twenty years ago to Alfred Rose, and was the mother of six children, five of whom are living. They came to Malad Valley in 1909 and homesteaded a dry farm in the Elkhorn district, living on the farm in the summer and at Pleasantview in the winter. She was faithful to the end in the discharge of her religious duties. Was a member and teacher of the Pleasantview Relief Society and as a teacher did much good among the sick in the community. She had only recently returned from Centerville, where she had been for five weeks nursing her father-in-law thru a severe illness. William Rose, of Bear River City and Miss Annie E. Barradale[sic] are here to attend the funeral, which will be held Thursday at 2 o’clock an[sic] the Pleasantview meeting house.

Mary Brooks Rose–In Malad, Ida., Monday, March 31, [1919] Mary Brooks Rose, 49 years of age, wife of, Alfred Rose, died of pneumonia following influenza. Mrs. Rose was formerly of Centerville, Utah, but had lived in Malad for the last eight years. She was born in England. She is survived by a husband and six children. Funeral services were held April 3.