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Show Margaret Sumsion Services Conducted Sunday Final honor was paid Miss Margaret Mar-garet Sumsion, victim of Utah County's first 1940 fatal traffic accident, at services held Sunday Sun-day afternoon in the Springville I Third Ward chapel under the dir- ection of Third Ward bishop, G. C. Laney. The chapel was filled with sorrowing sor-rowing relatives and friends 'who were encouraged by the remarks re-marks that were made by six speakers, Bishop Wm. Witney; Frank Barnes of the E. L. Burton company of Salt Lake City; Harold Har-old E. Wallace of the Yalecrest Ward Bishopric; L. A. Anderson, principal of the Spanish Fork High School; Springville First Ward Bishop Andrew Peterson; and Dr. Joseph Hughes of Spanish Fork. All of the speakers expressed express-ed appropriate sentiments of consolation con-solation to the family. Vocal selections included two choral numbers by the Lieurance club of Spanish Fork, "Trusting," and "Smiling Thru," under the direction of F. J. Faux accompanied accompani-ed by Mrs. iReed Warner. Freeman Free-man Bird and Glenn Holley, sang a duet "In the Garden." accompanied accom-panied by Belle Thomas, and a vocal solo "Going Home" was sung by Elmo Coffman. The invocation was offered by Glen Sumsion, and the benediction by Springville Second Ward bishop, bis-hop, Harold Allman. The grave was dedicated by a relative, Dr. Brockbank of Spanish Fork. Miss Sumsion was one of two killed in an auto accident near Lehi early Thursday morning, when a car driven by Blaine D. York of Salt Lake City collided with a loaded coal truck. Mrs. York was also killed, but Mr. York escaped with only cuts and bruises. Miss Sumsion was employed as a stenographer for the E. L. Burton Bur-ton company in Salt Lake City. She was born in Spanish Fork, November 21, 1920, daughter of LaCelle and Annette Evans Sumsion. Sum-sion. Her . mother died several years ago. She was educated in the Springville schools. In 1936 it was necessary for Mr. Sumsion Sum-sion to move to Mayfield because of his employment in the forest service. Since there was no high school there, Margaret attended high school in Spanish Fork for the last two years, graduating in 1938. During those two years she resided with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Evans. She ' later attended the L. D. S. business busi-ness college in Salt Lake. Surviving besides her father of Springville and her grandparents in Spanish Fork, are a brother and sister, Gerald and Betty Rae Sumsion; Sum-sion; a stepmother, Mrs. Julia Johnson Sumsion; a half-sister, Carolyn Sumsion of Springville; and her grandfather, John Sumsion Sum-sion of Springville. |