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Show NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page IS Obituaries Hazardous training ground for pilots Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series about Mark Hirst, of (hem, who. us an "ytv" KQ Y f Army Air Corps sergeant in the operations office during World War 11, saw the war from u different perspective. Operations keeps records of flying assignments ofuirplutw crews. I'utul accidents during training were very common; many soldiers lost their lives before ever arriving overseas. Here his story in his own words: Michelle Paul Hall 1968 - 2005 Thursday, October 20, 2005 Michelle Paul Hall passed away on (ctober 13, 2005 alter a courageous coura-geous battle with cancer. Michelle was a beloved mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend to many. Michelle was born on March 9, 1M8 in American Fork, Utah to Stephen Paul and Annette Fugal. She was a graduate gradu-ate of Pleasant Grove High School, Snow College, and Utah State University where she was awarded a Masters Degree. She married James Loyal Hall in the Salt Like City Temple on August 19, 1992. They are the proud parents of two lovely daughters, daugh-ters, Anna and Kirsten. Our beautiful Michelle had a gift for drawing those she loved close around her, and in the process she brought us all closer to one another. She loved to have family and friends gather in her home for holiday celebrations, birthday parties, par-ties, and weekend barbeques. Michelle Mi-chelle had a wonderful, wry sense of humor that enlivened every moment spent with her. She treasured trea-sured her husband and children, and her strength, wit, courage, and will to live will never be forgotten. forgot-ten. Michelle's daughters want her remembered as a great mom who never gave up. There are no words to descrile how much we cherish her, or how deeply we will miss her. She was a dedicated member of the LDS church. i 1 fi w 4 " fi Francis Grace 'Together again' Francis Grace, age 91 of Ljt.hi. died (X.1ober 15, 2005 at his home of causes incident to age, He was born on March 17, 1914 in Salt Like City, son of James David and Julia Jane Turner Grace. He married Luella Launas Brems on February 28, 19.'J4 in Ix'hi. Marriage later solemnized in the Salt Luke LDS temple on November No-vember 16, 1951. She died February 11,2001. Francis had worked at W.P.A., Interstate Brick Co., the Railroad, and retired from U-hi Block Co. after ,'J0 years I le served in numerous numer-ous callings in the IXS church. I le loved hunting, camping, hiking, and gardening. Survived by 1 son and 4 daughters, daugh-ters, Francis P. (Nora) Grace, Joan (Eugene) Francom, Judy (Harry) Loader, all of Lehi, and Linda (Wayne) Hardman of Alpine, UT; 19 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; brotlier Joshua (Kathleen) (iracc of American Fork. Preceded in death Frances Delila Our wonderful little mother and grandmother, Frances Delila Fox Brems, age 9(i, passed away on tX-tober 17, 2005 in Austin, Texas where she has resided since 1959, She was born in Ix'hi, Utah on January Janu-ary 18, 1909 to Isaac and Frances Winn Fox. She was the last surviving surviv-ing member of her 8 siblings. She married Ferrel E. Brems on October 9, 19.'53 in the Salt Lake Temple. He passed away in Austin, Texas September Sep-tember 30, 1979. She is survived by her two children, Jairus F.ngland $1,000 on select models g3f l4j Kg A , jf m iiiii u 1 ifl Factory W V flTTf Flit Authorlzad 0 iO 0M0 Utah County News wmheraldextra.com Michelle is survived by her husband hus-band James, daughters Anna (9) and Kirsten (7), mother Annette Erickson, six brothers and sisters Stephanie Bulloch, Scott (Suzanna) F.rickson, Julie (Matt) Jensen, Jacob Krickson, Jodie (Justin) Butterfield, Jared (Stephanie) Erickson, grandparents grand-parents Boyd and Venice Fugal, as well as her stepfather Melvyn and his eight children Christine (Kimball) Hansen, Darlene (Dust in) Sweeten, David (Vicki) Frickson, Lynnc (Bart) Purser, Lisa (Mike) Fnz, Bradley Erickson, Angela (Paul) Budge, Jeffrey (Natalie) Erickson, Er-ickson, and in-laws Ann Reading Hall, Nancee Hall, David & Stepha-ni Stepha-ni Hall and many wonderful Aunts and Uncles. Michelle was preceded in death by her father Stephen Paul, grandparents grand-parents George R. and Ruth Paul, and father-in-law Howard C. Hall. The family would like to express heartfelt appreciation to VistaCare Hospice, the Corner Canyon 1st and 7th Wards, the doctors and nurses of the Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah Hospital, and all those who assisted during Michelle's valiant struggle with cancer. Funeral services were held Monday, (X-tober 17, 2005 at 11:(K) a.m. in the Boulter Street Ward Chapel, i:M)(i South Boulter Street (1480 East) Draper, Utah. Funeral arrangements for Michelle have been entrusted to the care and direction di-rection of Warenski Funeral Home, American Fork, Utah (801) 7(i.'i-5000. 7(i.'i-5000. Donations in Michelle's name may be made to Young Survival Coalition, 52a Carmine Street, Box 528, New York, NY 10011 or www. youngsurvival.org. i , kj if by his parents, wife Luella, 9 brothers broth-ers and sisters, and 2 infant children. Funeral services will lie held Friday, Fri-day, ( ictober 21, 2005 at 1 1(H) am in the Lehi Utah West Stake Center 1920 N. 500 W. Friends may call at the Wing Mortuary, 118 E. Main, Li;hi, Thursday evening (-8:00 pm, and at (lie church Friday one hour prior to services. Interment, Ixhi City Cemetery. The family thanks Hearts for Hospice Hos-pice nurses Valerie Mort & Kelly for their kind, special care. Fox Brems of Austin, Texas and Jon Edward Brems of Portland, Oregon; eleven grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 11:00 am in the Wing Mortuary Mor-tuary Chapel. 1 18 E. Main, lx-hi, Utah, where friends and family may call from 9:30 to 1 1:00 am prior to the services. Interment, lx-hi City Cemetery. Obituary and guestbook available avail-able online at wcfish.com or wing-mortuary wing-mortuary com. Rebate for a limited time mmmma j0&. mmmt 0 K a co yf r loved to fly, and I had made up my mind that I wanted to le a gunner. When I was training at Reams, near Salt Lake City, an older guy who had been a gunner in World War I asked me what I was going to do. I told him I was going to try to become a gunner. "Nah," he said, "go into clerical." cleri-cal." I still wanted to be a gunner, but when I was interviewed for assignments, 1 was told, "We're short of men for clerical. cleri-cal. I low about it?" I said OK. At Ciowan Field, in Boise, I worked at night. I kept the records of the men training to be bomber pilots, bombardiers, navigators and gunners. 1 gave them their assignments, then filled out the forms after their flights, recording what they did. One night the pilot of an airplane air-plane hit another plane in the air, Two crews of 10 each were killed. That was the first crash I was involved in. Another night, I went out with a crew to look for a plane that had gone down. The guys on that crew were lost for 30 days before some of them walked out, and then the pilot of a mail plane saw the two who stayed with the crash; one of them had broken his leg. The crew had some candy in the airplane, and a .22, so they were able to shoot some Hospitals now home to tjORIH ( OliNI MAI I Nurses at Intermountain Health Care's Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and American Fork I lospital now have an additional resource for providing care to their patients. A new Rapid Response Team is in place at both of the hospitals hospi-tals with Orem Community I lospital to come on board at a later date. A Rapid Response Team (RRT) is a team of clinicians clini-cians who bring critical care expertise to the patient bed side or wherever it is needed. Members of the RRT include the frontline nurse, a critical nurse and the respiratory care supervisor. The purpose of the team is to prevent unnecessary patient care complications by responding to a "spark" before FAMILY FRIENDLY RADIO FOR UTAH VALLEY 24 RADIO Me Key 1450 Web Site: www.keyy.com E-Mail: mail?,keyy.com Complete program schedule and listener comment opportunity on our weh site or phone us for a copy of our schedule! -- A7-.TV' will not add your name to any mailing lists. Slcvvn A (iarshun, (icm-ial M.in.iyi-f W7 South IMK) WeM, f'rovu, ITX-Wll 374-5210 IEn Espanol! J'ROGRAMAS Y MUSICA PARA LA I AMIIJA Los Sabaclos IX- Las 12:00 A Las 5:00 p.m. I " " ; 1 i j I , . I I ) I , f i i www.iveincenter.com 1055 North Sgt. Mark Hirst (Ret.) quail and other animals. The crew came out looking like skeletons. We were later assigned to train crews at Wendover, before be-fore the B-29 crews came (who trained to drop the atomic bombs). (By the way, Geneva Steel was practice "bombed" several times by crews with cameras.) One night, just as a guy came to relieve me, a crew took off. I saw a big flash of light, and I knew that that flight had crashed. The two guys I had assigned to that flight were killed, along with the rest of the crew. My job was to fill out the death records. Another plane crashed in it becomes a "forest fire." "There are many warning signs that a patient may be headed for an emergency situation, situ-ation, such as a heart attack or respiratory arrest. (Xir goal with the Rapid Response Team is to be available for nurses as sixin as they see the start of those warning signs or when they legin to worry about one of their patients," said Jim Hamilton, Ham-ilton, manager of adult respiratory respira-tory care at UVRMC. National research shows there is a 50 percent reduction in non-ICU patient arrests in hospitals with an RRT in place. There is also a 44 percent reduction reduc-tion in the number of post -operative emergency ICU transfers and a 37 percent reduction in post -operative deaths. Some specific warning signs HOURS A DAY to life is Jesus Christ WW ' wter 300 West Suite 308, Provo, Utah the salt flats, and one of the crew got his foot traped in the wreckage. The crew couldn't pull him out. Someone said, "L.et me take your knife." The victim thought he was going to get his leg cut off, so he yanked his foot out, but lost a lot of meat off it. One time at March Field, where I was next transferred, a plane didn't come back on time, "I'm lost, I don't know where I'm at," the pilot radioed. Through radio calculations, they could tell him where he was: "You're over Delta, Utah. Come back." At March, I once saw a plane take off and ground loop at the end of the runway. All five of the crew came out on fire, and all died. Another time, two planes were flying in formation, and the lead plane kept telling the other pilot to come in closer. That airplane cut off the tail of the lead airplane. One man got out of the lead plane and parachuted down, the only member of the crew to survive. When he fell out, his heel caught on the airplane door. The next time the plane went around, his parachute fell out, and he was able to catch it and put it on. ( That story was in Ripley's "Believe it or Not.") When I was sitting making up the death reports for this Rapid Response Team of a decline in patient condition can be an acute change in blood pressure, an acute change in level of coasciousness or an acute change in oxygen needs, such as having to switch from a nasal cannula to mask oxygen. But, nurses or other caregivers caregiv-ers are encouraged to call the '0 OUR STAND LOVE IS THE BEST POLICY. JoAnn Adams (801) 756-3503 52 EAST MAIN ST1 AMERICAN FORK joannadamsallstate.com Glen Pack (801)785-1255 UO S. 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Nineteen people were killed. I could tell a lot of these stories. Training was very g(xd, but it was hazardous. We didn't have the communications communica-tions we have now. One day after I was overseas, over-seas, I figured that just in the squadron 1 was in, we probably lost about a hundred men. 3li of them in just one week. All this was in the States during training. Alter we were overseas, we lost only 10 men. I Next week: I low Mark I In s: became one of the best operations opera-tions NCO's in the Air Corps. 77ie.se excerpts from local veterans are courtesy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually be put on the Orem City Web site, www.orcm.org. Readers uwure of any veterans who have written about their military .service ure asked to arrange to have these archives in the Veterans History Project, Lihrury of Congress. Phone Don Norton (22r)-H().r0) on how to do this. RRT if they are worried atxmt a patient for any reason, said Hamilton. "Nurses know their patients and have a real sense if something some-thing is wrong We want nurses to ad on those instincts and call us whenever they feel the need," Hamilton added. instate R COPY |