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MARGARET COLLIPRIEST, EX-TEACHER, DIES AT 59

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Margaret Mary Bullock Collipriest, 59, a former member of the Young Women General Board and high school English teacher, died Oct. 28, 1988, of a brain tumor in a Salt Lake skilled nursing center.

Mrs. Collipriest, who had been ill for only a few weeks, taught at Murray High School from 1951-53 and served as a member of the Young Women General Board from 1980-84.Mrs. Collipriest was born Dec. 13, 1928, in Monongahela, Pa., to Harry and Elizabeth Cliffe Bullock. She was a member of the boards of Salt Lake School Volunteers Inc. and Ballet Guild and was president of the Young Women program in the Bonneville 1st Ward and Salt Lake Bonneville Stake. She had worked recently as a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker.

While serving on the general board she traveled throughout the world and had a special assignment to take Christmas gifts to young refugee women on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Bonneville 1st Ward chapel, 1535 Bonneview Drive (1015 South). Friends may call 6-8 p.m. Monday at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary Chapel, 3401 S. Highland Drive, and at the ward one hour before to the service Tuesday. Burial in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. (See Obituary on E3.)