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Show Final Rites For T' War Veteran Will Be Held Friday " Graveside services for Pvt. Dean 0 Nielson, who was killed in action ac-tion May 20, 1945 while serving with the infantry on Okinawa, will be held Friday, April 22, in the Lynndyl cemetery. Pvt. Nielson, a son of LaClead and Eleanor Ashby Nielson, of Lynndyl, was born there Dec. 30, 1925. He received his education in the Lynndyl public school and the Delta high school, where he was president of the student body in 1943-1944. Uppn graduation he v,;rrh hnnnrs. arnone them won u'b11 being the Danford medal for leadership lead-ership and a scholarship to the University of Utah. He was an elder in the L. D. S. church and assistant to the superintendent super-intendent of the Sunday School when he was called in the service. He trained at Fort Douglas, 'I Camp Robertson and Fort Ord, and left for overseas duty during February, Feb-ruary, 1945. He was on Hawaii and the Mariannas. Surviving are his parents at Lynndyl, and five brothers and one sister: Howard, Phill, Merrill and Alan Nielson, all of Lynndyl, Robert Nielson, a students at the Utah state agricultural college, and Mrs. Carmen Stewart, of Las Vegas, Nevada; his grandmothers, Mrs. Emma Nielson, of Leamington and Mrs. Jane M. Ashby of Fillmore. Fill-more. Military honors will be accord-' accord-' ed by the American Legion Posts Nos. 89 and 117. The body, with military escort, will arrive at the Lynndyl depot Friday at 2:15 p. m., where it will be met, and the cortege will proceed to the cemetery. ceme-tery. The family requests that no flowers be sent. |