Funeral services for Florence Firmage, 79, were held Saturday, December 6, 1980 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on White Mountain Blvd. Bishop James Curry conducted the services and burial was in the Mountain View Section of the Rock Springs Municipal Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Robert L. Van Valkenburg, Robert W. Van Valkenburg, Dale Seipp, Calvin Potter, Andy Legerski, and Cornell Nate. Honorary pallbearers were Lyman Fearn and Evan Graham.
Mrs. Firmage died at 3:30 A.M. on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1980 at the Kimberly Manor Nursing Home. A resident of Rock Springs since 1904, Mrs. Firmage had been in ill health the past one year.
She was born in Leigh Lancashire, England on March 31, 1901. The daughter of the late Edward and Ellen Unsworth Cook.
She attended schools in Rock Springs and married John William Firmage Jr. in Green River on May 4, 1918. Mrs. Firmage was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Howard (Florence Jean) Van Valkenburg of Rock Springs, Janet McPhie of Boise, Idaho, Mrs. August (Ethel Mae) Bakka of Riverton and Mrs. Don (Esther) Woodyatt, of Evanston; two brothers, Harold Cook of San Diego, Calif., and Tom Cook of Ogden, Utah; one sister, Dolly Brown, of Rock Springs and several grandchildren; great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, John and three brothers, Arthur, Paul, and Albert Cook and a sister, Mae Faddis.
Learn more about Florence on the Firmage Family History website:
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