MARY JANE MYLER RODERICK

Mary Roderick

MALAD – Mary Jane Myler Roderick, 95, Malad, died Thursday [June 9, 1983] at the home of her daughter in Pleasantview.

She was born Aug. 10, 1887, in Wellsville, Utah, to Charles and Isabell Morton Myler. She grew up and was education in Riverside, Idaho, and Arbon Valley.

On Oct. 3, 1912, she married William Price Roderick in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mr. Roderick died Dec. 7, 1951. They farmed in Abon[Arbon], Franklin and Pleasantview, later moving to Ogden, Utah, where she was employed with the Ogden Arsenal during World War II.

For the past ten years Mrs. Roderick has lived with her daughters in Ogden and Pleasantview.

She was active in the LDS Church where she had served as a chorister in many of the organizations, worked in the Relief Society and Primary, and was also active in temple work and genealogy. She was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Harvey (Isabell) Ashton, Ogden, Utah; Mrs. Rex (Thora Ann) Hess, Sandy, Utah, and Mrs. Thelma Ipsen, Pleasantview; 20 grandchildren; 65 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild; and a sister, Mrs. Isabell Knowles, Logan, Utah. She was preceded in death by a daughter, two brothers and three sisters.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Pleasantview LDS chapel with Bishop Foster Ipsen officiating. Burial was in the Pleasantview Cemetery.