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Show Springville Man Loses Life in Truck Accident; Four Other Men Injured ' Many friends and relatives paid final tributes of respect to the life of Keith Daybell at funeral serv-ices serv-ices conducted Monday afternoon Fatally Injured . . . Keith Daybell in the First ward chapel, directed by the bishopric. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Daybell was fatally injured when brakes on a loaded truck failed and the machine rolled down a remote logging road in northeast north-east Wasatch county. He, with four other men, was loading a diesel engine onto the truck at a place known as Soapstone. They were using a tripod and had the motor suspended when the drive-shaft drive-shaft broke, the brakes gave way and the truck careened down an incline and crashed into a stump. All five of the men were thrown from the truck. Mr. Daybell was thrown into the path of the car and the wheels passed over his body. As the Beck youth fell through the frame of the truck he was struck by the driveshaft. Injured in the accident were. Robert Debbler, 26, of Orem; Thomas Parker, 20; Richard Beck, 18; and Robert Morley, 19, all of this city. The injured men were treated at Heber hospital and all released except Mr. Beck, who suffered fractured ribs, fractured leg and deep cuts and bruises. Mr. Debbler Deb-bler was treated for leg and back injuries; Mr. Parker for head and leg injuries and Mr. Morley for leg hurts. Mr. Daybell was pronounced dead by Dr. Robert Snow of Salt Lake City, who was vacationing at a nearby ranch. Victim of the accident was a son of Robert and Martha North Daybell. Day-bell. He received his early education educa-tion in Charleston and Provo schools and graduated from the Provo high school in 1935. He married Rosalie Bjarnson of this city, December 14, 1937 and the couple lived here until he joined the service in 1943. He served with the U. S. Army over seas during World War II. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge and was taken prisoner and held in a prison camp for the last six months of the war. Following his release from the army, he returned to Springville and for the past six years had operated a sawmill here and at Soapstone. He was an active member mem-ber of the LDS church and of the Springville First ward. He is survived by his widow and three sons and a daughter, Ray, Lany, Jack and Judy Lynn, the latter five - months old; also his parents of Provo; one brother and two sisters, Theo Daybell of Midway; Mrs. Paul Brickey of Provo and Mrs. Elton Hartley of Salt Lake City. The Daybells lost another son, Lavar Daybell, 35, just two years ago last April. He was fatally injured in a mining machine accident acci-dent while working at the Lakeside Lake-side lime and stone quarry near Pelican Point on the west shore of Utah Lake and a piece of mining min-ing machinery fell on him. Mr. Daybell and his family were living in Springville at the time of the accident. He left a widow and seven sons and daughters |