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Show TRAIN ACCIDENT TAKES LIFE 0FL0CAL MAN Funeral Services Today In Salt Lake City For Dean E. Nicholl; Died Monday Funeral services for Dean E. Nicholl, 29, of Brookside, who was fatally injured in a train accident Sunday afternoon near Heber City, will toe conducted today, Thursday, at 2 p. m., at 255-2nd East street, Salt Lake City. Friends may call at the place of the funeral before the services. Burial will be in Salt Lake City. Mr. Nicholl died early Monday from injuries suffered when he was orushed between a Denver & Rio Grande railroad freight train and a stock loading chute. He had been employed ' as a brakeman by the D. & R. G. railroad rail-road for the past 10 years, and was assisting in the switching of freight cars near Heber when the accident occurred. According to reports received by his family, a board fell from the stock-loading chute, striking Mr. Nicholl while he was on the freight train, and knocking him between the chute and the car. He was born in Salt Lake City November 6, 1916, a son of Joseph Jo-seph E. and the late Naomi Young Nicholl. He was a graduate of the South high school and before World War n served in the navy. He married Donna Everill in Salt Lake City, September 22, 1938. They had lived in Springville Spring-ville since April. Besides the widow and father, he is survived by two children, Geraldine and Gordon Nicholl, Springville, and seven brothers and sisters. |