Springville Herald | 1947-07-10 | Page 1 | Funeral Wednesday for Victim of Auto Accident

FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR VICTIM OF AUTO ACCIDENT Funeral services were conducted in the local Community Presbyterian Presbyter-ian church Wednesday afternoon for Jack Diamond, 35, a former resident of this city, who was killed in an automobile accident last Friday near Panaca Junction, Nevada. Rev. Earl Fritz conducted conduct-ed the services. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery,' under direction of A. Y. Wheeler and Son Mortuary. In the meantime, Mrs. Diamond, the former Lois Barton of Provo was reported in a serious condition at a hospital in Caliente, Nevada, as a result of the accident. Mr. Diamond was born Oct. 22, 1911, in Springville, a son of James Willis and Nellie Blackett Diamond. He was educated in the Springville schools. He married Lois Barton in Provo. Enlisting in the navy April 20, 1944, he served as a seaman first class in the Pacific theater, until he received a medical discharge May 28, 1945. After his discharge from the navy, he worked as a Diesel mechanic in Salt Lake City several months before going to Pioche to work in the mines as a timberman. Surviving are his widow; two sons, Stephen and Douglas Diamond; Dia-mond; his parents, Mr. Diamond of Howe, Ida., and Mrs. Diamond, Provo; two brothers and two sisters, sis-ters, Ma Diamond, Pioche, Nev., Creed Diamond, Spanish Fork; Mrs. Bessie Morgan, Provo, and Mrs. Boyd Baker of San Diego, Calif.