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Show Funeral Services At Mapleton for Accident Victims Funeral services were conducted in the Mapleton LDS church on Tuesday afternoon directed by Bishop Welby Warren, for the two little Navajo Indian girls, Lena Haskin, 7, and Rena Bizade, 6 months, who lost their lives in a truck accident on the Mapleton highway Saturday afternoon. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery. Lena was the daughter of Man-sen Man-sen and Mary Haskin and Rena, (Continued on page 2) Funeral Services at Mapleton for Indians (Continued from page 1) the twin daughter of Sam and Ann Bizade of Conalea, Ariz. They were killed when the pickup truck in which they were riding with ten other Indians, was hit by a large truck driven by Vergil D. Peterson, 17, of Fairview. The accident occurred on the highway about a mile south of Holley's Service station. Injured in the same accident were Mrs. Mary Haskin, 29, Helen Haskin, 4; Jul-ianna Jul-ianna Haskin and Lillie Haskin and Mrs. Anna Bizade, 22. . They were all in the back of the pickup pick-up truck. The Indians have been coming to Mapleton for the past several years to assist with the harvest and have worked for Jack Canto. They had just arrived for fall employment. An official from the trading post at Conalea, speaking at the services for the little girls, said the Indians had small farms and homes in their town and were highly respected citizens. Mapleton citizens turned out enmasse for the services and Bishop Warren remarked that flower gardens were stripped for floral offerings of sympathy to the parents and other members of the Indian group. The Farm Bureau Insurance paid hospital and funeral expenses resulting from the accident and lunch was served to the bereaved fajnily and their friends by the Mapleton Relief Re-lief Society after the funeral services. ser-vices. The Indian workmen are staying stay-ing at the Jack Canto residence at Mapleton and will help him as they have in the past several years, with the harvesting of fall crops. |