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Show LAST RITES HONOR ACCIDENT VICTIM Funeral services for Donald Melvin Olsen, 17, of 119 Cyprus, Copperton, were conducted last Thursday afternoon, May 10 at 2:30 p.m. in Copperton ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Bishop Rex B. Garrett. Mr. Olsen was fatally injured in a head-on collision of a convertible con-vertible carrying six teen agers and an automobile occupied only on-ly 'by the driver on the Bingham highway about 12:30 a.m. Monday, Mon-day, May 7. Mr. Olsen was a passenger pas-senger in the convertible. Services included: organ prelude pre-lude by Richard Carter; invocation, invoca-tion, George Gadd; remarks. Bishop Garrett; vocal solo, "The Lord's Prayer", by Joel P. Jensen, Jen-sen, accompanied by Marian Ji-mas; Ji-mas; speaker, Albert Cheever; song, "The Lord Is My Shepherd" 'by boys quartet, Brent Peterson, Richard Allsop, Roy Christensen, Sammy Robison, accompanied bv Karlene Wilson; speaker, Warren G. Allsop; vocal solo, "Going Home", Eugene Nelson, accompanied by Clyde A. Miller; benediction, Bishop George Nix, and organ postlude, Bessie Dahl-strom. Dahl-strom. Graveside services at Pleasant Grove cemetery included: invocation, invo-cation, Verlyn Thomas; song, "The Perfect Day" by girls trio, Aria Olsen, Roslyn Hansen, La-Von La-Von Anderson; remarks, Bishop Louis Olpin; dedication of grave, Ray L. Olsen. Pallbearers were Timothy Giles, Gil-es, Ramon Stoker, Merlin Coleman, Cole-man, George Gadd Jr., John L. Matthews, Jerry Downs, Norman Doman and Gary Patrick. All senior class were honorary pall-, pall-, bearers. A son of Melvin E. and Grace S. Yancey Olsen, Donald Melvin Olsen was born August 16, 1933, in Bingham Canyon. The family moved to Copperton when Don was a small boy and he attended Copperton elementary school and Bingham junior and senior high schools. He was to have graduated gradu-ated from Bingham high school 'May 16. He was a priest in the Copperton ward, Church of Jesus Je-sus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Surviving besides his parents, are three sisters, Joyce Grace and Vonda May Olsen, Copperton, and Mrs. Bonnie June Mousley, Bluffdale, and two grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Moroni L. Olsen, Pleasant Grove. |