Clara Eliza S. Seely (born Sorensen)
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Gender: Female
Date of Birth: December 15, 1876
Date of Death: September 26, 1951
Birth Place: Denmark
Death Place: Dragerton, UT
Clara Eliza Sorensen Seely
ORANGEVILLE, Emery County – Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Eliza Sorensen Seely, 74, who died Wednesday at 4:35 a.m. in the Dragerton Hospital, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Orangeville Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Raymond R. Sitterud, bishop.
Friends may call at the Wallace Mortuary, Price, Friday, and at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.L. Guymon, Orangeville, Saturday from 10 a.m. to time of services.
Burial will be in the Castle Dale City Cemetery.
Mrs. Seely was born Dec. 15, 1876 in Denmark, a daughter of Jacob and Matilda Mickelsen Sorensen. She came to the United States as a small child, 70 years ago, settling in Utah, with her parents. On Nov. 1, 1895 she was married to Justus Wellington Seely in the Manti LDS Temple. They made their home in Castle Dale until her husband died in 1934, since which time she has lived in Orangeville.
She has been active in the LDS Church, particularly in the Relief Society as a counselor in the ward presidency, secretary and visiting teacher.
Surviving are her father, now 97, Salt Lake City; and the following sons and daughters, Justus Earl Seely, Farmington: Mrs. W.L. Guymon, Orangeville: Mrs. Joseph L. Jameson, Grants Pass, Ore.: Mrs. C.C. Mayer, Dragerton; Mrs. Lloyd Killion, Dragerton; Dorman A. Seely, Paygon; a brother, Alfred Sorensen, Salt Lake City; and six sisters, Mrs. Anena Larsen, Mrs. George Miller, Mrs. Elva Whitehead and Mrs. Berg Ellingson, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Samuel Whitehead, and Mrs. Wilfred Gibbie, Claresholn, Alberta, Canada.
Published in The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday September 28, 1951 page 36
