Mary Robbins Goodliffe (Birth 27 Jul 1840/Death 8 Apr 1898)
Park Valley, April 18, 1898 — It becomes our painful duty to chronicle the death of Mary Robbins Goodliffe, wife of our Bishop Arnold Goodliffe, and for nearly twenty years president of the Snowville Relief Society. “Aunt Mary” whose name was a household word from the aged and infirm to the infant prattler, passed from this mortal sphere April 8, (Friday) 1898, at 3:30 a.m. Seven months ago she had a paralytic stroke, from which through the fastings, prayers, faith and administrations of the Priesthood and ward organizations she greatly recovered. About March 8th she began to fall and gradually faded until the end came which was “as calm and pleasant as a summer’s morn.” All that loving hands and sorrowing hearts could do was done but to no avail.
Funeral services were held in Snowville school house, April 11, at 1 p.m. Relatives and friends assembled at the home of the deceased, formed in line with Relief Society at head. The remains of “Aunt Mary” were reverently and sadly borne by her six nephews from her home to its last resting place. The speakers, Elders Wm. V. Bunderson, Chas. Bailey of Wellsville, relatives of deceased and Wm. Hurd who was in charge of the meeting, vied with each other in extolling the virtues of our loved “Aunt Mary,” speaking glowing terms of her unwavering faith in the Gospel and its ordinances up to her last moment. They exhorted all to follow her example, and spoke words of comfort and consolation to her sorrowing husband, (by whose side she had traveled for over forty years) and her sorrowing family.
Aunt Mary died at the ripe age of 57 years, nine months and twelve days. She had passed through the trying ordeal of losing father and mother when but a girl, leaving her to battle with the world alone and to endure the hardships and privations which the early settlers of these valleys had to pass through.
Quiet and unassuming, her life was a sermon to all; she had laid her weary body down until the morning of the resurrection.

OTHER INFORMATION:
She was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England July 27, 1840 to parents Edward Robbins, Jr., and Nancy Ann McCallister. She married Arnold Goodlife November 3, 1857 at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.
Survivors: Husband.