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Show i f v , I ' :' .- : . ) f V1 I Mark Blair Montague, 18, who lost his life while working work-ing on a construction job near Tacoma, Wash. Services were held here Wednesday Services held for victim of accident Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon in the Fifth Ward (Springville Stake House) for Mark Blair Montague, Monta-gue, 18, who lost his life in a fall from a scaffold while working on a dam near Tacoma, Ta-coma, Wash. The accident occurred oc-curred Friday, September 1, 1967, as the victim assisted two other men to raise a scaffold on the dam. A bolt seeurring the scaffold broke loose and all three men were swung away from their support. The crane holding the scaffolding tripped them and all three men fell over ov-er 300 feet. Mark was reported killed instantly as were the other two men. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wal-lace D. Montague, 268 South 4th East, he was born in Provo, Sept. 16, 1946. The parents received word of their son's death just before an open house which they were holding for another son, Dea and his wife who were married mar-ried Aug. 18, in the temple in Mesa, Arizona. Son Mark was active in athletics ath-letics at Springville High School and graduated from M. F. West High School in Che-halis, Che-halis, Wash. He served as senior sen-ior class representative, student director of the choir and played in a local dance band in Che-halis Che-halis where he lived with relatives. rel-atives. An active member of the LDS Church, he was a priest and the recipient of the Duty to God Award. At the time of . his death he was anticipating a call to serve an LDS mission. Survivors include his father and mother, Springville; one sister and three brothers: Mrs. Sterling (Carol) Thomas. Provo; Pro-vo; W. Dea Montague, Provo; Paul Walker Montague, serving serv-ing in the LDS Great Lakes Mission; John Franklin Montague, Mon-tague, Springville; and grandparents, grand-parents, Franklin Walker, Che-halis, Che-halis, Wash; and Nellie Blair Montague, Nampa, Idaho. Burial was at Nampa, Idaho, directed by Wheeler Mortuary. |