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Show Salt Lake Rites Held For Soldier Killed in Korea Funeral services for Pfc. Doral Abner Vance, 21, killed Oct. 9 in the "Little Gibraltar" battle in North Korea, were conducter Tuesday Tues-day in Salt Lake City. Burial was there in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Mem-orial Park. Pfc. Vance was a son of Stirling Stir-ling and Florence Johnson Vance, born in Salt Lake City August 4, 1930. As a boy he moved to Los Angeles with his family, but continued con-tinued to spend much time visiting visit-ing relatives in Utah. He frequently frequent-ly spent the summer vacation in Delta on the farm of his grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Laura Johnson, or with his uncles, Ward and Austin Johnson. He was a graduate of Montebel-lo Montebel-lo high school in Los Angeles, and had been on the cross country track team, and won "B" team and varsity football letters. He had been active in LDS church athletic programs and was left fielder on the 1950 Eastmont Softball team, which won the East Los Angeles stake championship. Survivors include his parents, two brothers, Steven Stirling and Larry Renno Vance, and a sister, Cheryl Vance, all of Los Angeles. Pfc. Vance's body arrived in Los Angeles Jan. 31, six months after he departed from San Francisco for the Korean front. Deep sympathy sym-pathy is with the family in the loss of this fine young man. |