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Show 4 Vernal Express Wednesday, September 6, 1995 Obituaries v, 4 f1 or Kent (Smitty) Wayne Schmidt Bronson James Harold Wilcox Schmidt dies in accidental drowning Kent Wayne Schmidt (Smitty), 36, of Vernal, died SepL 4, 1995 from an accidental drowning. He was bom July 2, 1959 in Monte Vista, Colo, a son of Harold Dean and Sylvia Ann Kell Schmidt. He married mar-ried Christine Hatch. They were later lat-er divorced. He married Elizabeth Jean Miller June 5, 1995 in Laughlin, Nev. He was an operator for Gibson Well Service, contracted in Chevron, Redwash and Wonsit Valley. Kent was loved and respected respect-ed by all. He enjoyed the great outdoors. out-doors. Fishing was his favorite past-time past-time and he was the greatest. He enjoyed en-joyed his family and friends and showed everyone a good time. He was a graduate of Uintah High School, Class of '79. Schmidt is survived by his wife, Jcanie, Vernal; son, Christopher and daughter, Jamie, Vernal; stepdaughters: stepdaugh-ters: Cortnee and Brandi, both of Vernal; his mother and father, Harold and Sylvia Schmidt, Jensen; brothers: Allen and wife, Yunhe, Langcaster, Calif.; Brian, Jensen; Preston, Vernal; sister; Laura and husband, Billy Ainge, Jensen; also father-in-law, John Miller, Vernal, and all his friends that loved him. Graveside services will be held Friday, SepL 8, 1995 at the Maeser Fairvicw Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. Friends may call Thursday at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday at 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Thomson's Vernal Mortuary. Funeral director is Thomson's Vernal Mortuary. Schaefermeyer services held Fu.icral services for Earl Schaefermeyer were held Sept. 1, 1995 at Thomson's Vernal Mortuary with Maeser 3rd Ward Counselor, Eddie Slade, conducting. Prelude music was sung by a double dou-ble male quartet who were his nephews: Kendall, Bill, Mike, Robyn, Therryn, David, Greg and Brad Schaefermeyer singing "O Home Beloved," accompanied by Mary Schaefermeyer. Frank Abplanalp, a nephew, offered of-fered the invocation with remarksobituary by Counselor Slade. Tribute was given by his sister, sis-ter, Ruth Abplanalp, followed by a western medley of songs: "Home on the Range," "Red River Valley," and "Springtime in the Rockies" performed per-formed by nephew, Mike Schaefermeyer. Further remarks were given by his friend, Ivan Hall with nephew, Bill Schaefermeyer following as a speaker. Clara Jean Weeks, a niece, sang "End of a Perfect Day" accompanied by Mary Schaefermeyer. The benediction was given by David SGhaefermeycr with the postlude music by Mary Schaefermeyer. The pallbearers were: Robyn Schaefermeyer, Kendall Schaefermeyer, Greg Schaefermeyer, Frank Abplanalp, Ralph Caldwell and Fred Jones. Kendall Schaefermeyer dedicated the grave with interment in the Reck Point Cemetery under the direction di-rection of Thomson's Vernal Mortuary who were in charge of flowers. Compassionate and luncheon services ser-vices were provided by Maeser 3rd Ward. Wilcox baby passes away Sept. 3 In loving memory of Bronson Janes Harold Wilcox, born to Brian and Lorri Wilcox on June 12, 1994, who passed away on SepL 3, 1995. He is survived by his parents; two sisters, Kira and Chcrree' Wilcox; and loving grandparents, aunts, uncles un-cles and cousins. Bronson loved music and playing in his big dump truck. He loved playing in the water and fishing with his dad. His best times were sitting on the sofa with mom watching watch-ing T.V. and making everyone laugh. Bronson is our little angel and is loved and will be missed by all. The viewing will be Wednesday, SepL 6, 1995 at 10 a.m. at Hullinger-Jolley Funeral Home with services to follow at the Grace Baptist Church, 3816 South 2500 East, Vernal. Burial will be at the Rock Point Cemetery under the direction of Hullinger-Jolley Funeral Home. Agricultural prices Prices received by Utah farmers and ranchers in mid-August were from the previous month for lambs, unchanged for sheep, and down from the previous month for all milk, barley, alfalfa hay, and other hay, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. Lambs, at $84 per cwt, were up $3 from last month and up $18 from the August 1994 level. The sheep price was $24 per cwL the same as July 1995 and August 1994. The all milk price was $11.40 per cwt, down 10 cents from the previous previ-ous month and down 40 cents from the August 1994 price. Barley, at $2.62 per bushel, was down 3 cents from the previous month but up 45 cents from August 1994. Baled alfalfa hay was $68 per ton, down $8 from the previous month and down $8 from August 1994. Other hay, at $50 per ton, was down $9 from the previous month and down $5 from last year. Rich passes away at AVMC Thorald Earl Rich, 60, of Vernal, died Sept. 1, 1995 at the Ashley Valley Medical Center in Vernal. He was bom Dec. 19, 1934 in Vernal, a son of Thorald (Cotton) Clark and Lucille Housekeeper Rich. He married mar-ried Wilma Anne Mead, Oct. 7, 1955 in Wellington. Earl had worked as a heavy equipment operator, oper-ator, welder, mechanic, truck driver and rancher. He was also a professional profes-sional rodeo rider and team roper. Rich was a member of the Wellington Mountaineers Riding Club and member of the LDS church, Maeser 4th Ward. He was a former resident of Price and Wellington for many years. Earl was preceded in death by his parents; par-ents; also two sons and one daughter: daugh-ter: Lauri Lynn, Lyle E. and Ronald Rich. He is survived by his wife, Wilma, Vernal; children: Jackie Howa and husband, Roy, of Ogden; Lon T. and Karen Rich, Orem; Dan D. and Rita Rich, Boulder City, Nev.; and 12 grandchildren. He is also survived by brothers and sisters: Norma Dalton and husband Jerrold, Sunset; Donald and Carol Rich, Vernal; Charles (Bus) C. and Jeanine Rich, Las Vegas, Nev.; R. Kirt and Donetta Rich, Price; Evelyn Oldham and husband, James, Vernal; and Hugh and Bonnie Rich, Mesa, Ariz. Funeral services were held Sept. 5, 1995 at Maeser 4th Ward Chapel with Bishop Rich Gardner conducting. conduct-ing. The family prayer was offered by Evelyn Oldham with prelude and postlude music by Becky Leake. The invocation was given by Jerrold VFW officer plans Vernal visit Attention all veterans, widows and dependents a field service officer from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department Service Office, in Salt Lake City, will be in Vernal, Tuesday, Sept. 10, to assist persons in understanding and applying for rightful VA benefits, preparing and documenting application for compensation, com-pensation, pension, hospitalization, and other benefits. This is a free service and veterans need not be members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to qualify for assistance. The VFW Field Service Officer will be working out of the Vernal Job Service Center from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Cowboy laid to rest Thorald Earl Rich Dalton with remarks by Bishop Gardner and Kirt Rich. The Eulogy was given by Roy Howa. Musical selections were "Beyond the Sunset" by Kirt Rich, "Love Without End, Amen" by Neal Mead and "The Dance" by Dan Rich. Bus Rich was a speaker and Marilyn VanWagoner read a poem. Benediction was offered by Norma Dalton. The pallbearers were: Lon Rich, Bus Rich, Dan Rich, Kirt Rich, Roy. Howa, Hugh Rich, Don Rich and James Oldham. Honorary pallbearers pallbear-ers were grandsons: Don "Dee" Rich, David Howa, Joshua Rich, Douglas Rich, Mark A. Rich, Jared Rich, Jackson Howa, Kyle Rich and Ian Kronick. Interment was in the Vernal Memorial Park, under the direction of Thomson's Vernal Mortuary, with Lon Rich dedicating the grave. Lorena Thornton, Alene Dalton and Cami Dalton were in charge of the flowers. Dinosaur visits for August increase 4.1 Visitation at Dinosaur National Monument during August increased 4.1 percent over the same month last year, for a total of 94,555 visits, compared to 90,872 last year, according ac-cording to the Monthly Public Use Report. Year-to-date visitation is 2.2 percent per-cent over last year with 400,680 visits compared to 392,186 last year. Total overnight stays during the month totaled 14,295 with 63,887 for the year-to-date, according to Ann Excell, Dinosaur concessions specialist. The Sunset Hills became the final resting place of rodeo pioneer and Vernal native, Earl W. Bascom. The 89-ycar-old rodeo champion and cowboy artist passed away Monday, Aug. 28, of congestive heart failure in his sleep at his Victorvillc, Calif, ranch and was buried at the new Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, Calif. The memorial park is so new that Bascom was the first to be buried there and no grass has been planted. The funeral procession was held in the tradition of the Old WcsL Bascom s coffin, decked with his old bronc saddle, was carried by a horse-drawn freight wagon, while a riderless horse and saddle followed. He was buried cowboy style at high noon on a windswept hill overlooking overlook-ing the valley, Thursday, Aug. 31. Bom in a log cabin on the 101 Ranch in Vernal in 1906, Bascom was the son of Uintah County Deputy Sheriff John W. Bascom and Rachel Lybbert Bascom. He was the grandson of Ashley Valley pioneers Joel Almon Bascom, Sr. and wife, Alice Jane Bell Bascom, and C.F.B. Lybbert and his wife, Antonette Marie Olscn Lybbert. In 1912, his mother died and two years later his father moved the family to Alberta, Canada. He spent his entire life with a wide range of western experiences as a bronc buster, cowpunchcr, trail driver, blacksmith, freighter, stagecoach stage-coach driver, miner, trapper, wolf hunter, wild horse chaser, rodeo champion and Hollywood movie actor. A cowboy artist and sculptor of international acclaim, Bascom was known as the "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists" and is found listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in California, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. A cousin to western artist Charles M. Russell and also Frederic S. Remington, Bascom started sculpting sculpt-ing at age 62. Since then he has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious presti-gious Royal Society of Arts of London, England and recently made an honorary member of the Pro Rodeo Cowboy Artists Association. The last living of four bronc riding rid-ing brothers: Raymond, Mel, Earl and Weldon, known as the "Bronc Bustin' Bascom Boys," Earl Bascom rodeoed from 1916 until 1940. He competed professionally in Canada and across the United States in the three roughstock events of saddle bronc, bareback and bull riding as well as timed events of steer wrestling and steer decorating. In 1933, Bascom set a new world record, placed second in the North American Championship and third place in the Championship of the World all In the steer dec-orating dec-orating event. One of the top all-around cowboys of his day, Bascom won many championship titles. A rodeo pioneer, Bascom and his two older brothers, Raymond and Mel, designed and constructed rodeo's first known side-delivery rodeo chute in 1916 at Welling, Alberta. Bascom designed and made rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle in 1922, rodeo's first one-hand bareback bare-back bronc riding rigging in 1924 and the first high-cut rodeo chaps in 1926. He has also been declared "Rodeo's First Collegiate Cowboy" having rodeoed his way through college at Brigham Young University starting in 1933. Bascom and his brother produced rodeos starting in 1916 in Welling, New Cayton, Lethbridge and Stirling Alberta. His most famous bucking horse at the time was "McKenzie King." In 1935, Bascom and his brother, Weldon, produced Mississippi's first rodeo which was also the first known outdoor night rodeo using electric lights. A gold card member of the ProRodco Cowboys Association, the Canadian ProRodco Association and the National Police Rodeo Association, Bascom retired from rodeo in 1940. After his rodeo career, Bascom rode the range with Roy Rogers in television commercials. For several years, Earl has been recording his cowboy experiences into works of bronze art at his ranch studio in Victorville. He was an ordained bishop and patriarch of the LDS Church and a captain in the Mormon Battalion. Bascom is survived by his wife of 56 years, Nadine, and their five children: Denise Marion of Apple Valley; Glen of Memphis, Tenn.; Doria Cox of Council Grove, Kansas; John of Victorville; Dona Better of Kingman, Ariz.; three sisters: sis-ters: Alice Nilsson of Raymond, Alberta, Canada; AdaBell Norman of Commerce City, Colo.; LaMona Newren of Sandy; a brother, Grant of Bellflower, Calif.; 23 grandchildren grandchil-dren and 17 great-grandchildren. In life, Bascom followed faithfully his own philosophy: "If you want to be a champion bull rider, you have to ride the toughest bull." ALE) Classifieds Mon - Fri 8-5 Express mm mm m 66 l lip l i i US Can you think of a better reason to be careful around power line I ft AO neither. Roberto, Age 6, Rex, Age 6 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ELECTRICAL SAFETY CALL 1-800-222-4335. UTAH POWER A DIVISION OF PACIFICORP i |