Show Former Ephraim Woman Killed In Calif Car Accident RUTH HACKWELL FORMER MISSIONARY DIES INSTANTLY IN CRASH From The Ephraim Enterprise Miss Ruth Hackwell 36 formerly of Ephraim still calling this community community community com com- home was killed instantly instant instant- ly Monday night when an automobile automobile auto auto- automobile mobile in which she was a passenger passenger passenger ger crashed into a concrete highway highway highway high high- way overpass pillar in Albany Calif Reports are that the automobile engine was thrust back into the front seat scat in the impact pinning Miss Miss Hackwell and her companion K G G. Stiles 48 inside the wreck He was injured critically and was given a 50 chance to live AMiss Miss Hackwell was born in Indianola Indianola In- In In-I In July 8 1912 a daughter of Henry Hackwell now of Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- Ephraim raim and ond the late Elizabeth Hodgson Hodg Hodg- Hackwell son She attended school in rn in Indianola I and Ephraim and for a short time at Gunnison and then commenced a o career as store clerk working inthe in inthe inthe the Christensen's store in Ephraim for many years She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Latter da day Saints and filled a mission to the North Central states in about 1937 She had been an officer and teacher in the auxiliary auxiliary iary organizations of the West Ward She left Ephraim about four years ago and had been employed by Safeway Stores Inc in California California California Calif Calif- ornia most of the time since Her address has been Emerald St. St Oakland 9 Calif She is survived by her father and md stepmother Ephraim a brother brother brother bro bro- ther Alfred Hackwell Helper four sisters Mrs Sara Christensen and I I Mrs Louise Peterson Gunnison Mrs Hettie Funk and Mrs Dorothy Dorothy Dorothy Doro Doro- thy Jorgenson Manti ManU a half sister sister sister sis sis- sis sis- ter Helen Hackwell Ephraim a stepbrother Ervan Erva Peterson Manti and four jour stepsisters Mrs Reva Barnard Ephraim Ada Peterson Chester and Mrs Delores Spencer and Erva Grayson Salt Lake City Funeral arrangements are pending pending pending pend pend- ing word from Mr Hackwell who left for California immediately af after after after af- af ter receiving word of the accident which occurred a about out midnight Monday o- o 0 |