Show Vernal Ex-Vernal Resident Found Shot in Denver If If H. Grant Vest 63 former lormer executive secretary to the Board Doard of Trustees of State Stale Colleges In Colorado and former state commissioner of oC education was found dead of ot a bullet wound Monday afternoon In a n car in the garage arage of the family home In Denver police pollee said The rhe Denver coroners coroner's office reported retorted that the wound was self VESTS VEST'S BODY was found about pm p.m. by his wife Gwendolyn in the back backseat scat seat of the family car a lever action hunting rifle beside him Ills doctor said Vest had been despon dent VEST RETIRED September 17 as executive ex ex- secretary to the board and after acter more than 14 years of oC service to higher education in in Colorado He Ile had been executive secretary to the board since 1002 1962 Vest was Colorados Colorado's second commissioner commis of oC education serving from July 1953 to November 1959 when he went to Utah to become director of oC the Coordinating Coordinating Council on Higher Education for Utah in Salt Lake City WHEN HE returned to Colorado he was director of planning for the Southern South ern Colorado State Slate College in n Pueblo and later for Metropolitan State College in Denver A native of Salt Lake City Vest had served as superintendent of several Utah school districts including Uintah and for four years as a Utah state stale senator from here |