Show Services Slated Today for Victim Of Drowning Mishap in River Services were held today a at 10 am a.m. at the St. St Plus Pius CatholIc Ic is Church for Mary Juanita TruJIllo Monticello Vh who 0 drowned Sunday in the Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado redo River near the Junction of Utah Highway and the Castle Valley road l Miss Trujillo 19 was pic plc- nicking with a friend nd and rel rel- on n sand bar of the river two miles north of the George e White ranch when the tragedy occurred According to the Investigating officer Grand County Deputy Dick Wells the girl was wading In shallow water across an eddy In the river toward the rest of the party when she apparently apparently i stepped In a hole and was swept into the current With the victim were Gene Phipps about 19 of Moab ant and ancI her ber sister Billie Ann Padgett and Mr Padgett Mr Phipps ran to the spot and attempted to pu pull the girl from the cur cur- rent Miss Trujillo could not swim nor could Phipps and the saving effort failed The drowning happened at approximately pm p.m. accordIng according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to officers Effort to find the victim were underway In a little more than ten minutes min mIn- utes Deputy Wells was near the scene Investigating a car accident occident and with Gary Campbell Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell Wally WInfIeld and a Mr Woods tried to locate the vic vIc- tim Jack Jock Pulliam 17 Moab Joined the search and at found the body about ten feet from the spot the girl was last Jast seen The victim had been carried to the current upstream from where she was last Jast seen The river depth Deputy Wells said was 12 to 15 feet at that point The drowning was the third such tragedy in less than 12 month all Involving teenagers and all claiming victims new to or unfamiliar with the river area A Wellington Utah boy Edwin Thatcher drowned last month while swimming with companions near the US U.S. Highway bridge on the river Sundays Sunday's victim Mary Juanita Juanita Juan Juan- ita Trujillo was born bom June Juan Juan-I 12 19 12 at Vernal Utah She later later later la- la ter lived JIved In Idaho before moving movIng moving ing with the parents Joe T. T and Trujillo to Mon Mon- Both parents survive A member of the Catholic Church Miss Trujillo Is also survived by four brothers To- To ny y Soloman and Jake of Monticello Monticello Mon- Mon and Johnny II Jr Trujillo of f Grants NM also five sIsters sIs sIs- tem Mrs Billie mille Padgett Moab Mo Mo- ab fa Mrs Betty Detty Lucero Moab Mrs Irs Sadie West Joran Jordan Jordan Jor- Jor dan an Utah Mrs Helen Ortega Nampa Idaho and Pauline Trujillo of Monticello Funeral arrangements today were under the direction of the Turner Funeral Home Moab Burial is to be in the Sunset Memorial Cemetery Moab's new cemetery I |