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Show Funeral Services Slated In Second Ward Sunday For Victim Of Accident ! Funeral services for Odis Yancey, 64, who was fatally injured in an industrial accident here, will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Second ward chapel, with Bishop C. R. Clark officiating. Mr. Yancey died shortly after an accident at the Pleasant Grove Canning Can-ning company plant Wednesday morning. His left arm was torn, his right leg broken and his body severely lacerated when he was caught in a revolving pulley shaft at the plant. . His death was the first industrial fatality in the history of the plant. According to Harold S. Walker, an employe at the cannery, Mr. Yancey Yan-cey was attempting to replace a belt on a pulley, standing with one foot on a ladder and one foot on a pipe. His foot slipped from the pipe and he fell backward, his clothes catching catch-ing on a collar on the main line shaft. Mr. Walker, who was beneath the ladder, gave the alarm, and Joseph Mills, motorman, turned off the power. Mr. Yancey dropped to the floor, and was taken inside. Dr. B. C. Linebaugh and Dr. Grant Y. Anderson were called, but he died soon after they arrived. Marshal Golden Peay was called and, with Sheriff John S. Evans, investigated in-vestigated the accident. Mr. Yancey, who had been in the employ of the company for more than 20 years, was born in Mississippi Missis-sippi on August 29, 1875. He came to Utah with his parents in 1893. He married Mae Tomlinson of Pleasant Grove, on December 1, 1898. Surviving are his widow; a son and four daughters, Darrell Yancey and Mrs. Grace Olsen of Bingham; Mrs. Laura Kimber and Mrs. Evelyn Nelson of Provo, and Mrs. Eva Williams of Emery. n |