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Show Services Today ' For Victim Of Auto Accident Military services will be conducted conduc-ted today at 2 p. m., in the Span-ash Span-ash Fork First ward chnpol, for Grant C. Christenson, 21, resident of this city, who was fatally injured in-jured in an automobile accident Sunday, uiear Eureka. Friejids may call at the Claudin Funeral home before the services Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Christ onsen's body was found about 20 feet from his car, at 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Apparently the car had failed to make a curve .in the road and had crashed to the bottom of the steep canyon about two miles east of Eureka on Highway High-way 6. A passing motorist saw the battered bat-tered car after noticing the broken guard rail. Trooper Kenneth E. Harris who investigated said the accident probably happened some hours earlier. He reported the man. was presumably killed instantly the result of a crushed chest and fractured neck. He was alone in the car at the time of the accident. Born in Spanish Fork May 4, 1925, Mr. Christenseci was a son of Harry and Sarah Davis Chris-tensen. Chris-tensen. He graduated from the Spanish Fork High school and served ser-ved IS months in the Merchant Marines before enlisting in the army where he served two more years. He was a member of the Spanish Fork American Legion Post. He married Miss Donna Ivie, (Continued on Page 2) Services For Accident Victim (Continued from Page 1) daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ivie of Lyrandyl April 15, 1949, in Springville and they had made their home in Springville since. He was employed with the Illinois Powder Manufacturing Co., at the time of his death. Survivors include his widow, Springville; his parents of Spanish Fork, a brother, Harold Christensen Christen-sen also of Spanish Fork and two sisters, Mrs. Florence Boyer of Springville and Mrs. Rosetta Sawyer Saw-yer of Park City. |