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Show Spanish Fork Canal Claims Lives of Two Young Men; Funeral field Tues. derson. He lived in McKennon, Wyo., and Green River, Wyo., before be-fore moving to Provo in 1951. The Funeral services were conducted Tuesday forenoon at the Berg Drawing room, Provo, for Don Howard Thorpe, 16, who with a companion, Merlin Leon Anderson, 18, of Orem, was drowned Friday afternoon in a canal near the power pow-er plant at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. Bishop Theron S. Hall of the Springville Seventh LDS ward was in charge of the services. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery. The bodies of the two boys were recovered Saturday morning about 5:30 a.m. by Utah county deputy cheriff, Merrill . Smith and members mem-bers of the Spanish Fork fire department, de-partment, after water had been . - I ' . 'a j t . j . . ' i Li ? i The canal in which the two boys drowned leads from a diversion dam to the Strawberry Power plant. , The Thorp youth was fuily clothed except for his shoes and may have jumped into the canal in an attempt to rescue the other boy, who could not swim, the deputy dep-uty officer stated. The sheriff's office was notified that the boys were missing about 3 a.m. Saturday morning by four other boys who had gone swimming swim-ming in the canal. The four were Louis Thorn and Robert Beardall of Springville; Mont Ford of Provo and Herbert Carnesecca of Maple ton. The four left the site Friday at 4 p.m. while the other two boys were sitting on the bank of the canal. When thev returned, the Don Thorpe family moved to Orem last February. Febru-ary. He is survived by his parents, a brother and his grandfather. Funeral services for the Anderson Ander-son youth were also conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Valley Morutary chapel in Provo with Bishop Laird D. Billings of the Hill Crest ward in charge. Burial was in the Provo city cemetery. boys' shoes were on the bank but the boys were gone. At first the four thought their friends had driven off with another group of young people who had driven up to the canal earlier. Unable Un-able to locate Don and Merlin, they finally notified the sheriff's office. At the point just below where the boys disappeared, the speed of th e water in the canal is 200 second-feet. The swift water is flanked on one side by a hill, making it impossible to- climb up the bank. On the other side a cement bank slants up from two to six feet, topped by several feet more of dirt bank. Once in the canal, it would have been virtually impossible to climb out, the deputy said. Don was born May 15, 1937. in Salt Lake City. He is a son of Howard G. and Helen Eggertsen Thorpe DeLude. He received his education in the Springville public schools and during the past year had attended the Provo high -'school. He was a member of the LDS church and was a deacon. Surviving are his father, Howard How-ard G. Thorpe of Springville; his mother, Mrs. Helen DeLude, Provo; his step-father, Fred E. DeLude of Provo; his step-mother, Mrs. Ivy Thorpe and two grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Eggertsen of Springville. The Anderson youth is a grandson grand-son of Thomas R. Anderson of Springville and a nephew of Mrs. Ellen Anderson of this city. He was born in Ogden, son of Rulon L. and Marguerite Heninger An- |
