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Show Services Held Today for Kenneth Isom, Airplane Crash Victim HURRICANE, Utah. Funeral services are being held this (Thursday) (Thurs-day) afternoon in the Zion Park stake chapel for Kenneth Isom, 28, who was one of two airplane crash victims at the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma air depot, Mar. 11. Born in Hurricane Nov. 3, 1914, he was a son of Richard and Mary Jepson Isom, both of whom are deceased. He attended the grade schools, and graduated from Hurricane Hur-ricane high school in the spring of 1932, attending the B. A. C, in 1935 for a short period before leaving to fill a 26-months' mission mis-sion for the L. D.S. church in Texas. Returning in 1937 he was bus driver for the U. P. and attended at-tended the U. S. A. C, at Logan, in 1937-38. The following year he worked for the Union Pacific at Sun Valley, Ida., and in 1940-41 attended the University of Utah, where he obtained his pilot license. He was inducted into the Army air force in Mar. 1942, going first to Sheppard Field, Texas, then to Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma, (Continued on page eight) Kenneth Isom Funeral (Continued from first page) and later to Stewart technical school in New York City, graduating gradu-ating with highest honors in a class of 500 after 16 weeks of training. He received a special honorary diploma and a Bulova watch from the school as top honors. From here he was sent to Oklahoma City air depot, where he was the only one of his regiment regi-ment not sent overseas in Oct. 1942. On Oct. 6, 1942, he was married to Vera Browning of Salt Lake i City, formerly of Rexburg, Ida., and was home on furlough with his bride in November, having since been stationed at the Oklahoma Okla-homa air depot with the maintenance main-tenance crew. He and a man named Gillespie from Yerrington, Nev., where the only occupants of the plane which crashed. Both were killed. Surviving besides his widow are the following .brothers and sisters: Anthony J. Isom, serving with the U. S. Army engineers in Alaska; DelRoy Isom of Lafayette, Ind., Darwin J. Isom of Salt Lake City; Dick Isom and Mrs. Eleanor Ruesch of Hurricane; Mrs. Hazel Hirschi of Cedar City and his aged grandfather, James Jepson of Hurricane. |