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Show Funeral Services Held For Leon Duffin in Toquerville, July 26th TOQUERVILLE, Utah Funeral services for Leon Duffin, 30, were held in the Toquerville ward chapel Thursday, July 26, at 4 in the afternoon. Bp. Leo Bringhurst conducting. Mr. Duffin, who is a son of Mrs. B. H. Forsyth, was killed on the Santa Fe railroad Sunday, July 22, in California, where he was employed. Musical numbers were a vocal duet: "Oh, Love Divine," by Blanche Lamb and H. A. Jackson,' accompanied by Yvonne Jackson; solo, "In the Garden of Tomorrow," Tomor-row," Garth Sandberg ( Hurricane Hurri-cane 1, Mrs. Sandberg at the piano; solo, "Just a Prayer Away," Mrs. Newell DeMille, Rockville, accompanied by Mrs. Bessie Fish; quartet, "Peace I Leave With You," Myrtle Slack, Clara Kleinman, Bessie Fish and Rowena W. Slack, with Mrs. Lu-cile Lu-cile Fish accompanying; and solo, "Resignation," H. A. Jackson w-ith Mrs. Bessie Fish, pianist. Speakers were Mrs. Harry Slack, and Walter Slack of Toquerville; Toq-uerville; Paul Thurston of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, and Donald P. Forsythe of Los Angeles. All paid tribute to Mr. Duffin and gave consolation to his family. Prayers were by Bp. Leo Bringhurst Bring-hurst and R. J. Naegle, and the grave in the Toquerville cemetery was dedicated by Archie Kleinman. Born August 14, 1915, at Can-nonville, Can-nonville, Leon Duffin was a son of the late Ernest Duffin and Adelaide T. Duffin Forsythe. The family moved to ToquervUle in September 1915 to make their home. He attended district school in Toquerville, had two years of high school at Hurricane, and graduated from Judge Memorial School in Salt Lake City. From the summer of 1934 to 1937, he worked for the Union Pacific in Zion National Park, and later had employment in Hollywood, Hol-lywood, Calif. On February 15, 1940, he married Charlene Man-ard Man-ard in Las Vegas. They lived in Los Angeles for two years, in Denver one year, and moved to San Bernardino in January 1945 in connection with his employment employ-ment with the Santa Fe railroad. He brought his wife and children to Toquerville recently due to the illness of his mother, and had just returned to his work when the accident happened which cost his life. Surviving besides his wife are three children, Lonny and Bonny and Joyce Lynn; his mother, Mrs. Forsythe, and one sister, Mrs. J. L. Wallace of Toquerville; and two brothers, Sgt. Leonard Duffin in Florida, and Sgt. Donald Don-ald Duffin in Germany, both with the U. S. Air Force. ' |
