Show Funeral Honors Lapoint Man Blaze Victim Funeral services for Zach Zach- Zach arish ariah Kump 78 Lapoint were held Monday at L 1 pm in Lapoint Ward chapel Mr Kump died in a fire that destroyed his log and frame home Thursday of last week about pm Smoke was discovered corn com log Ing from the dwelling Thursday day by Bryce Erickson ot of Ver Vernal nal reported Trooper Leon ard Ferguson of of Utah High way Patrol Mr Erickson contacted Vernal's Highway Patrol station who notified Roosevelt officers who were closer MR ERICKSON left hiscar his hiscar car nearby on the highway ran to the house and looking through a bedroom window saw Mr Kump lying In bed surrounded by flames Another motorist ClIfford CUfford Hackford Lapoint joined Mr Erickson as they attempted ted to reach the burning build build- building ing but flames drove them from the house Later after burning log Continued on page 8 0 Blaze Vict Victim ln Continued from page 1 walls had collapsed fire firefighters firefighters fighters hooked a strong wire to the steel bed on which the victim was lying and pulled rim from the blaze OFFICERS ERS believed the fire started from a bedroom overheated coal heater or by hot coals falling from it The blaze appeared to have center ed in the area of the bedroom A pile of coal beside the house also was consumed Mr Mrs Loyal Odean Cox a daughter told investigators that she had talked with Mr Kump at t his home at 1240 pm and he was all right She said he built a fire In Inthe inthe the heater and likely had lain down to sleep prior to the out break Mr and Mrs Kump were early settlers at Lapoint and they operated Lapoint Mer Mer- Mer Mercantile cantlie cantile Store for 17 years MR RUMP KUMP was born Aug 3 1604 in Chester San San- pete ph County a son of Zachar Zachar- lah and Mary Mary Catherine Clow Clow- Cloward ard Kump lie was married to Saran Reynolds In Chester and the marriage later was solemnized ed in the Salt Lake Temple The couple had lived In La La- Lapoint point since 1916 1016 Mr Kump also had worked time of his liS as a farmer At the death he was a high priest in inthe inthe the Church SURVIVING besides his widow are Bre two sons and four daughters Cloyd Badlands National Monument S D and Adrian R Lapoint Mrs El EI bert Sadie Chandler My Myton ton Mrs Earl Mae Warburton and Mrs Loyal Odeen Odean Cox Lapoint and Mrs John Don Bon nie Myton 19 grand grand- grandchildren children UI 15 great grandchild ren four brothers Parley California Loren Axtell San San- pete pele County and Dean Rupert Rup- Rup Rupert ert Idaho and two sisters Mrs Jacob Eliza Nielson Lapoint and Mrs Ellis Edna Olson Rupert |