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Show Services Friday for victim of plant accident Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m., in the Berg Drawiing Room Chapel at Pro-vo, Pro-vo, for Roger Elias Bargar, 48, of Mapleton, who lost his life in an accident at Geneva Steel Monday, January 11, 1965. Bishop Carlos Hjorth of Mapleton Ma-pleton Second Ward, will officiate. of-ficiate. Full military honors will be accorded by the Dean Menden-hall Menden-hall Provo Post No. 13, American Amer-ican Legion. Interment will he in the Provo City Cemetery. The accident occurred at 7:55 a.m. Mr. Bargar died at 12:20 p.m. in the Utah Valley Hospital. Hos-pital. He suffered a fractured leg, fractured pelvis, shock and internal injuries. A spokesman for the plant said Mr. Bargar was assigned to remove a rail for a crane in the Geneva slab yard. He was sitting on the rail and disconnecting discon-necting a tie plate when the rail gave way. He fell 35 feet 1 to the ground. Mr. Bargar was born Oct. 30, 1916 in Jamestown, N.Y., a son of Lewis and Elizabeth ( I i ' j 1 i ' it : ; s , I ; ' ' i Roger E. Bargar, 48, of Mapleton, Ma-pleton, fatally injured in a fall at Geneva Steel Monday. Bargar. He married Lorraine Halliday July 8, 1943, in Ogden. After his father's death, he was reared in an orphanage. He graduated from Jamestown High School. He worked as an electrician in Youngstown, Ohio and served serv-ed in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II in the South Pacific. Following his discharge in 1946, he lived 12 years in Provo, moving to Mapleton Ma-pleton in 1958, where he had resided since. Mr. Bargar had been employed em-ployed at Geneva for the past (continued on page 8, col. 4) |