Source Record 1831

Description:       Source Type}   Obituary Family History} Hancock
Newspapers.com.  The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) Fri, Maw 21, 1948, p. 37, col. 2. Catherine W. Bunker
      ST. GEORGE. May 20  —  Catherine Wilhelmina Fordfors Bunker, 81, died Thursday at 5 a.m. at the home of her son and daughter-in-lawMr. and Mrs. James R. Bunker, Veyo, Washington county.  Mrs. James had been visiting there for several weeks.
      Mrs. Bunker was born July 17, 1886, in Kronda, Radmilder, Sweden, a daughter of Andrew Catherine Olsen Nordfors.  The family came to the United States in 1874, coming direct to Utah as converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, settling in Annabella, Sevier county.  After her marriage to James Lang Bunker in the late 1880s, she lived on a ranch in northwest Washington county.  When Veyo was settled they were among the first families to locate there, operating a large farm and cattle ranch.
      They moved to St. George in 1933, where Mrs. Bunker had sionce made her home.  She had been an active worker in the L.D.S. temple at St. George.  Mr. Bunker died in 1936.
      Surviving are their son, five grandchildren, a brother, John Nordfors, Provo; two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Anderson, Fillmore, and Mrs. Albert Bunker, St. George.
      Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the St. George First L.D.S. ward chapel.  Friends may call at Cannon funeral home Saturday from noon to time of services.  Burial will be in the St. George city cemetery.
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Date Updated} 30 Aug 2025
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