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Show GUN ACCIDENT KILLS SISTER OF LOCAL RESIDENTS Mrs. Aneeta McBride, 60, died at 1:45 p. m. Monday in the Iron County Hospital where she was taken after being fatally fat-ally injured in an accident while handling a gun. She is a sister of Mrs. Del Holyoak, and Ken. Barton, both of Milford. Mrs. McBride had been helping help-ing her husband doctor a sick animal, and returned to the house to complete her house-cleaning, house-cleaning, and apparently picked up the rifle from a bed to move it, when it discharged. Iron County Sheriff Arthur Nelson who investigated, said she might have dropped the gun or laid it down, accidently striking the hammer. Her husband, Albert Roy McBride, Mc-Bride, heard the shot and rushed into the house, where he found his wife lying on the bed with the gun beside her. The builet had entered her chin, coming out the top of her head. Aneeta Barton McBride was born in Paragonah Dec. 29, 1894, a daughter of William P. and Lavinna Davenport Barton. Bar-ton. She attended the Paro-wan Paro-wan schools, and married Mr. McBride on Aug. 12, 1914. They received their endowments endow-ments in the St. George L D S Temple on June 21, 1916. She was an accomplished musician, mu-sician, having played the piano most of her life in orchestras, public gatherings, and as a private pri-vate instructor. Active in the Church, she taught in the Primary, Sunday School, Relief Society and the MIA. She is survived by her husband; hus-band; five daughters, Mrs. Barbara Bar-bara Dailey, Mrs. Helen Barton and Doris McBride, Paragonah; Mrs. Lois Orton. Phoenix. Ariz.: and Mrs. Thelma Mosdell, Cedar Ce-dar City. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren, four brothers and four sisters. Funeral services are scheduled sched-uled for 2 p. m. this (Thursday) afternoon in Paragonah, and burial will be in the Paragonah Cemetery. |