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Show HURRICANE STODENT DIES IN ACJC1D ENT Lauretta Jepson, High School Pupil, Dies Instantly As Result of Fall from Truck Xear La Verkin Saturday A gay school party was turned into grim tragedy Saturday evening eve-ning when Lauretta Jepson, 17, meniher of the Hurricane senior class was killed instantly when she fell from a truck on which the students were riding. The accident occurred just befora dark at the top of the La Verkin Ver-kin hill as the students, about 2 5 in number, were on uieir way to a point near Virgin for a class party. As the truck reached the top of the hill and made a shaip curve, the girl became overbalanced overbal-anced and fell about twelve feet into the barrow pit alongside the highway. Her neck was broken and she died instantly. A. K. Larsen, an instructor in the Hurricane schools, was following fol-lowing the truck in his car and saw the girl fall. He picked her up and rushed her to Hurricane where she was pronounced dead by Dr. E. Clark Mclntyre. Funeral services were held at the Hurricane high school auditorium audi-torium Monday. Burial took place in the Hurricane cemetery. Miss Jepson was born in Hurricane Hur-ricane September 24, 1915, a daughter of James and Grace Wright Jepson. She was a senior sen-ior in Hurricane high school where she was active in school affairs. She graduated from the Hurricane L. D. S. seminary last year. Besides her parents she is survived sur-vived by ten brothers and sisters: sis-ters: Thomas, Woodrow and-Jesse and-Jesse Jepson, Mrs. Martha Hastings Has-tings and Mrs. Autie Reeve of Hurricane; Mrs. Vilate Smith,. Lee's Ferry, Ariz.; Mrs. Lucy Bamum, Las Vegas; Mrs. Rose' Knowlton, and Anthony Jepson, Los Angeles; a half-brother, El-ber El-ber Gibson, Hurricane. |