| Show Funeral Rites Donor Five Fire Victims Funeral services for the f five ve members of one family killed In a tragic fire were held Monday at 2 pm in the stake center with an overflow crowd honoring the tho victims Bu Burned ned to death Saturday S in ina In a predawn pre blaze were Mar ion Revier Lucky Madsen 34 his wife Betty Ellen Fow ler Madsen 31 and three of their eight children Judy El- El Ellen El len Betsy Lou 4 and Sam Sam- Sammy my 2 Survivors are Eddie 14 Pete 12 John OJ 9 Timmy 8 and Mary Jane 5 THE F FAMILY AMIL Y was living in ina ina a lone home located In a re re- remote mote area four miles mUes south south- southeast east of Bonanza Mr Madsen worked as a state weight checker at White River bridge and also was well known as a rodeo rider AccordIng to t investigating officer Sheriff Norman R Fletcher the fire started shortly before belore 5 am from an overheated coal and wood stove iu in the kitchen Presumably Presumably ably the stove had been stok stoked ed up to combat the frigid 25 below zero weather EDDIE WAS the first one oneto oneto to hear the fire and at first he thought it was the wind He awoke his father who called to his wife and then went into one of the bedrooms where they three girls were sleeping He carried Mary Jane out out- outside outside side and placed her on the ground which was covered with a light fall of snow Eddie then helped his fath- fath father father er through a window of the bedroom he shared with his wife and Sammy At this point the roof collapsed Eddie then warmed up the car and drove the tho survivors to nearby Bonanza where Paul Borden superintendent of American Co no- no titled the sI sheriffs riffs riff's office at am Eddie who was barefooted during his heroic rescue work was treated at the coun- coun county county ty hospital for frostbite Mary MaryJane MaryJane Jane also was hospitalized be- be because because cause of a past history of Continued on page 8 Fire Victims Continued from page 1 pneumonia Both are in good condition SHERIFF Fletcher said that the boys who survived the fire had been sleeping in the front room of the house rather than in the third bedroom pro pro- bably probably because of the cold weather Some were in sleep sleep- sleeping ing bags and others en an the couch They escaped in only their night clothing When Bonanza residents ar- ar arrived ar rived at the home they found it reduced to ashes and re- re remains remains mains of the metal roof Officers cers and firemen who search search- searched ed the ruins fount found the bodies of all five victims in the bed bed- bedrooms rooms MR MADSEN was born Dec 17 1928 in Richfield a ason ason son of Marion R Madsen Sr and Alta Waters Survivors incLude his par Salt Lake City four sons and a daughter a brother and six sisters Virgil Ray Pete Madsen Montana Mrs Willis Dixie Akelund Vernal Mrs Lamar Margaret Holt Alton Utah Mrs Robert Sheila Norman Mrs Mr Rebut rt Lola Lola Baker Mrs Johnny Eileen Walsh and Mrs Robert Dor Dor- Dorothy othy Bolton all of f Salt Lake City Mrs Madsen was born July 17 1931 In My Myton ton a daughter of Earl R R and Ida Harman Fowler SURVIVORS besides five children include two brothers and six sisters Earl Fowler Jr American Fork Francis Fowler Myton Mrs Alma I Louise Larsen Mrs Grace San Francis Francis- Francisco co Mrs Clifford Bernice I Mace Springville Mrs Theo Nellie Ashton Lyndon Utah Mrs Gerry Venice Gaylor Kearns and Mrs Mel Mel- Melvin vin Hardman Vernal Also surviving are her fa- fa father father ther and a grandfather Hen Hen- Henry ry Marino Fowler both of Silex Mo Judy Ellen was born May 23 1951 in Springville She was a sixth grade student in Bonanza Elementary School BETSY LOU was born Jan 31 1958 in Vernal and Sam Sam- Sammy my was born Sept 14 1960 in Vernal Nathan Jones of Bonanza Branch Presidency conducted the funeral services Ear Earl Gun Gurr offered Ul the pray er en at the mortuary Prelude and postlude music was as played by May Jackson Lamar Holt gave the invocation cation Davis Ward ladies choir sang Unanswered Yet Kine Hatch and Bill Mur- Mur Murray Murray ray the speakers discussed their friendship with the farn- farn ily and how Mr Madsen rode in the rodeos throughout the US DOROTHY LUCK and Daun Willard sang Home on the Range Dave Clark offered the ben ben- benediction Pallbearers were Willis Akelund Pete Madsen Bill Lewis Theo Aspen Red Clark and Bill McKeachnie Bishop Max Johnson dedi dedi- dedi dedicated the grave in Vernal City Memorial Park where the single casket was burled buried MANY RESIDENTS of the area have helped the survivors survivors ors with food clothing and other essentials Mr and Mrs Akelund sug Best gest memorials to an education education tion fund for the five survivIng surviving Ing children The three children of their own are caring for the four boys old year Mary Jane however will make a new home with Mr and Mrs Theo Thea Ashton of Lyndon Utah |
