Bingham Bulletin | 1940-08-09 | Page 1 | Spotted Fever Kills Lark Man

SPOTTED FEVER KILLSLARK MAN Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Tuesday afternoon in the Lark L.D.S. ward chapel for John Prowse Jr., 40, a resident of Lark. Mr. Prowse died in the Bingham Canyon hospital, a week after he became infected with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The Rev. A. E. Butcher of Salt Lake City was in charge. His death was the first in Utah this year attributed to spotted fever, Dr. William M. McKay, acting commissioner of the state board of health, said. Mr. Prowse was working in Big Cottonwood canyon on a county road project crew. He was born in Cornwall, England, Eng-land, March 24, 1900, and came to Lark at the age of seven. He graduated from Bingham high school. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Anderson Prowse, whom he married June 24, 1924, in Salt Lake City; two sons, Leonard and John Robert Prowse, and his mother, Mrs. Florence Prowse all of Lark . Interment was in Fort Herri-man Herri-man cemetery under direction of the Bingham mortuary. -