Person:Nettie Pearce (1)

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- Autobiography of Charles Rodwell Pearce in possession of Luvile Hales Agnes H. Pearce family records in possession of Nettie PearcePearce family records in possession of Douglas Pearce Church records of Montpelier, Idaho 2nd Ward FHL films 007176 page 331,336,338,414,684, Death record Salt Lake City, Utah

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                Utah's 2nd Oldest Resident
  Funeral services for Nettie Vera Pearce, 107, who was Utah's second oldest

resident will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at McDougal Funeral home, 4330 S. Redwood Road in Taylorsville.

  Miss Pearce, who observed her 107th birthday Feb. 9, died May 5, 1995, at

Holladay Health Care Center in Salt Lake County, where she had lived since March, 1989.

  Friends may call for an hour before servicces at the funeral home.  A

graveside service will be held tuesday noon at Montpelier Idaho City Cemetery.

  According to Utah Division of Aging and Adult Services' records, Miss Pearce

was exceeded in age by only one other Utah resident, a woman from Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.

  Miss Pearce was born in 1888 in a log cabin near Montpelier, Idaho.  A

daughter of Charles Rodwell and Agnes Hogensen Pearce. Her mother was the first white woman born in the Bear Lake Valley, and her grandparents are sent by Brigham Young to settle the valley.

  As a young woman she was a clerk in a dry goods store and bought a car to

take the family on outings. She loved to travel and visited 48 states, Europe and Canada. She served in the Southern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  Much of her life was spent caring for others, including her parents, nieces,

nephews, and a brother and sister as they became older. In 1945 she began spending the winters in Salt Lake City with a sister after her sister's husband died and eventually established permanent residence in the Utah capital city.

  Miss Pearce was featured in a number of Desert News stories including when

Utah Centenarians were honorred at the Governor's Mansion.

  A brother, Norman, who had also been a resident at the Holladay nursing

home, died in 1993. She is survived by a sister Ruth Shelton, 93, and 27 nieces and nephews and their families.