Martha Timothy

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Homer Duncan Company (1862) infant

Departure: 22 July 1862 Arrival: 21-24 September 1862

• Residence: Utah, United States - 1870
• Residence: ED 150 Ashley, Mountain Dell Precincts, Uintah, Utah, United States - 1900

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PIONEER UTAHN, ACTIVE LDS, 86, SUCCUMBS (Tribune Special)

OREM, December 24--Mrs. Martha Timothy G. Rudy, 86, died in her residence Thursday at 4:30 p.m. of causes incident to age. She was an early pioneer of Utah.

Mrs. Rudy was born on Platte River August 2, 1862, while her parents, John G. and Martha Davis Timothy were crossing the plains with a pioneer company to settle in Wallsburg, Wasatch County, where Mrs. Rudy attended school.

DIED IN 1890 She was married to Alma Gardner in 1878. He died in 1890. In 1891 she was married to Josiah R. Rudy, who at present patricarch of the Orem Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Most of her early married life was spent in Vernal and she lived in California for 18 years before moving to Orem four years ago. She was an active LDS Church worker, having been active in the Relief Society and a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. During World War II she worked in bond drives, appearing at one time on a bond campaign program with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Chester W. Nimitz.

HUSBAND SURVIVES Besides her husband she is survived by the following sons and daughter: Mrs. LaPrele Frazelle and Mrs. Mabel Przubyia, San Fransisco, California; Mrs. Janet Larson, Oakland, California; Mrs. Cora Belden, Defiance, Ohio; Mrs. Cornelia Yudinsky, Washington D. C.; Mrs. Olive R. Miller and Mrs. LaRue Wardle, Springville; Mrs. Thelma Young and Mrs. Wanda Strouse, Orem; Mrs. Delma Long, John A. Gardner and Czar Rudy, all of Roosevelt; Owen Rudy, San Jose, California; 98 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. in the Vermont LDS Ward Chapel, Orem, by Reed Burgener, bishop. Friends may call at the Fairbanks Mortuary, Orem, Sunday prior to services.

Burial will be in the Orem Cemetery.

-Salt Lake Tribune, December 25, 1948, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

Married 1) Josiah Philip Rudy and 2) Charles Alma Gardner Jr.

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