OCR Text |
Show ACCIDENT TAKES LIFE OF GAIL AVERETT Funeral Services Held Wednesday For Second Accident Victim In Family Funeral services were conducted in the Fourth ward chapel Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon for Gail Aver-ett, Aver-ett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Averett, who died Sunday evening at a Provo hospital of injuries sustained sus-tained in an accident early Sunday. Sun-day. Burial was in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by A. Y. Wheeler and Son mortuary. According to. a report of the accident, Gail, with a companion, LeGrande Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Barker, were walking home on the highway on Sixth and East Center street, when a car, driven by O. D. Rust of Springville, struck them. Gail was thrown about 36 feet by the impact im-pact and sustained a fractured skull. The Barker boy was thrown even farther and suffered a compound com-pound fracture of the leg and arm and a painful hip injury. He is at the Payson hospital and is reported report-ed to be improving. Gail was born in Springville in June, 1929, a son of Fred and Vi-one Vi-one Anderson Averett. He attended attend-ed the Springville schools. Surviving, besides his parents, are two brothers, Glenn and Lio-nal Lio-nal Averett, Springville. A third brother accidentally drowned about four years ago. |