Obituary

Hannah Corless South

by Veloe Jackson

 

Aunt Hannah was born April 2, 1876 in Randolph, Utah, the daughter of John and Dorothy Knox Corless.  She was the middle child of thirteen. She had eight sisters and four brothers.  She grew up here in Randolph and on November 10, 1899, she married Samuel Rich South in the Salt Lake City Temple.  They made their home in Randolph.

 

She was always active in the church. In her early life, she taught a religion class and Sunday school.  After  her marriage, she was a counselor to President Pearl Brough in the Randolph Ward Relief Society and was a block teacher for many years.

 

In 1903 they moved to Logan, Utah where Uncle Sam went to the Utah State Agri-cultural College.  Aunt Hannah took in boarders and made a little money to help out.  From Logan they moved to Salt Lake City and then returned to Randolph in 1910 where they lived on a ranch, worked in a sawmill, and Uncle Sam taught school.  They worked very hard together for their family.  They had a fire which burned down to the ground and everything they had was lost.  The town helped them to get back on their feet again.

 

Moving time for Aunt Hannah came again in 1922, this time to Ogden. She operated a successful doughnut shop while they lived in Ogden.  She could always sell more doughnuts than she could make.

 

In the fa11 of 1924 they moved to Island Park.  They helped build a school house and church building.  They organized a Sunday School and Aunt Hannah and the other good sisters in the church put on a food sale to purchase an organ for the Sunday School.  After spending years in the timber country of Island Park where Uncle Sam, Ren, Barney and Charlie operated a lumber mill, they moved to Idaho Falls in 1934.  They built an apartment house and established a lumber yard.

 

Uncle Sam died November 16, 1949, a week after their golden wedding anni-versary.  Aunt Hannah was the mother of seven sons and daughters: Lorenzo, who lives in Evanston, Wyoming; Allen, who died at the age of 17; Elgie Larsen of Randolph, Utah; Bernard of Idaho Falls, Idaho, who died February 21, 1955; Zelma Schwartz of Natick Mass.; Charles of Idaho Falls, who died in 1948; and Dorothy Hackworth of St. Anthony.

 

There are 28 surviving grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.  She has one brother, William Corless  of Randolph and three half sisters:  Vilate Ramson, Ogden, Utah; May Nicholls, Randolph and Ogden; and Hazel Hendee, Logan, Utah.

Hannah Corless and the David Jackson Family