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Idaho State Journal, 07/18/05
GRACE - Ada Louise Cross Williams, 79, of Grace, passed away Saturday, July 16, 2005, at the Caribou Memorial Hospital in Soda Springs. Mrs. Williams was born March 17, 1926, at Soda Springs, the daughter of Daniel and Louise Ivory Cross. Ada was raised and educated in Soda Springs graduating from Soda Springs High School in 1944. She married Grant V. Williams on Oct. 9, 1946, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She had also lived in Idaho Falls, and Grace since 1949.
Mrs. Williams was a member of the Grace LDS 3rd Ward. She had served as president of the Grace 2nd Ward Relief Society for five years, president of the Grace Stake Relief Society for 10 years, Stake MIA Presidency, taught the Beehive Girls, visiting teacher and had served with her husband as officiators in the Logan LDS Temple for 16 years.
She had been a Caribou County Fair worker for many years. She enjoyed her yard, flowers and especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband, Grant, of Grace; two sons and one daughter and their spouses, W. Crae and Carol Williams of Grace; Scott R. and Glenda Williams of Logan, Utah; Margaret and Richard Wooton of Leadville, Colo. Other survivors include 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, two daughters, Diane and Suzan, three brothers and four sisters; Bill Cross, Ted Cross, Ralph Cross, Catherine Moore, Florence Holden, June Pasco and Ethel Caress.
Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, July 20, 2005, at noon in the Grace LDS Stake Center.
Burial will be in the Grace Cemetery. The family suggests donations to the Hunstman Cancer Center or the Grace Library.
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Excerpt from Ada Louise Cross:
“My mother was born to Charles Russell and Anna Demaris Asman Ivory 28 October 1902 at Council Bluffs, Iowa. She has one brother Clifford Russell Ivory born 22 June 1904. When my mother was four years old her father was killed and after a short time, Grandmother Ivory came west. She homesteaded on land just west of where the Monsanto Chemical Plant is now. She and the two small children farmed this land with very little outside help. Grandma Ivory had a sister living in Soda Springs and I feel sure that is why she came to Soda.
Uncle Cliff talks about when he was about ten he and a friend went swimming in Soda Creek. (That is the creek that flows past Hooper Springs.) Of course they were swimming in their birthday suits, and while they played, Charles Fryer, owner of the Fryer Hotel, stole their clothes. Uncle Cliff had to run home naked. He said he only had one change of clothing and now he had lost his treasured clothes. What a mean trick to play on two little boys!"

Conversation w/Ada, April 24, 2005:
Uncle Cliff says that his dad was shot—in a gunshot accident. “That’s what I always gathered from the conversations—that he was shot. I can just vaguely remember at one time Grandma saying that he was robbed. I suppose for just what he had on him."
I don’t know what the uniform is—maybe a band uniform. I don’t know what he did for a living in Tabor.

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Birth	17 Mar 1926	Soda Springs, Caribou County, Idaho
Census (family)-shared	25 Apr 1930	(Daniel Cross and Louise Ivory) Soda Springs, Caribou County, Idaho
Census (family)-shared	20 Apr 1940	(Daniel Cross and Louise Ivory) Soda Springs, Caribou County, Idaho
Graduation	1944
Marriage	9 Oct 1946	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah - Grant Victor Williams
Residence	1 Feb 1994	Grace, Caribou County, Idaho
Death	16 Jul 2005	Soda Springs, Caribou County, Idaho
Burial	20 Jul 2005	Grace Cemetery, Caribou County, Idaho
Obituary	26 Jul 2005	Logan, Cache County, Utah

Spouse	Grant Victor Williams (1920 - 2011)
Child	Diane Williams (1949 - 1949)
Child	Suzan Williams (1953 - 1953)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	Daniel Cross (1889 - 1940)
Mother	Louise Ivory (1902 - 1956)
Sibling	Catherine Cross (1915 - 1998)
Sibling	Florence Marie Cross (1916 - 1991)
Sibling	Dorothy June Cross (1918 - 1986)
Sibling	Ethel Gertrude Cross (1919 - 1979)
Sibling	William Daniel Cross Jr. (1921 - 1989)
Sibling	John Edward "Ted" Cross (1923 - 1987)
Sibling	Lt. J. G. Ralph Cross (1928 - 1952)

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