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Show Funeral Services Held for Young Victim of Automobile Accident Funeral services were held Monday in the Mapleton ward chapel for William Dix Wright, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ches-ter Wright, who lost his life in an automobile accident south of Nephi Friday of last week. Services were the day before his 17th birthday. Bishop Reed Bennett of the Second ward, was in . charge. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery, directed direc-ted by Wheeler Mortuary. The accident occured when the car in which the youth was riding, collided with a truck on the icy highway. Two other young men, Herbert Miner, Jr., 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Her-bert Miner, Mapleton suffered a fractured shoulder, fractured ribs and body bruises and cuts, and Jay Leslie Reif, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Reif of Payson, had his right foot amputated am-putated in the accident. They were taken to the Nephi hospital. hos-pital. William Dix Wright was born January 6, 1942, at Wil-liston, Wil-liston, N.D. He received his education in the Springville schools and was a junior at the time of his death. He was a member of the Ag club and was also a member of the LDS Church holding a position in the Aaronic priesthood. Surviving besides his parents, par-ents, are a sister and three brothers, Phillip Wright, serving serv-ing an LDS mission in Eastern States at Beaver, Pa.; Judith Ann, Paul and Steven Wright, Mapleton; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Dix of Provo. |