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Show MASS HELD FOR LARK YOUNGSTER Requiem high mass for David Stevens Trujillo, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel G. Trujillo Tru-jillo of 86 Lark Heights, was celebrated, Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock in St. Paschal's church, Lark, with the Rev. John J. Sullivan the celebrant. The rosary was recited for the youth Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at Bingham Mortuary chapel. The boy, object of an all-night search by sheriff's deputies and more than 70 Lark residents, was found dead Sunday morning on the K level of the Bingham open pit mine of Kennecott Copper Corp. He was found just after 6:30 a.m. toy N. L. Garcia, engineer, engi-neer, and G.A. Butterfield, brake man, as they were passing by the seventh trolley tower on the north end of K level. He had been reported missing to the sheriff's office Saturday about 8:30 p.m. by his parents after not having been seen since about 4 or 5 p.m. Investigating officers report that they have a written statement from a mother and daughter living in one of the last houses in Lark stating that they had seen the boy wandering on the hills above the last houses in Lark Heights around 5 o'clock and that the mother sent the girl to tell the boy that he should go home. They told the officers they believed he had done so, and did not know of anything until the news of the death of the boy was broadcast the following morning. Officers also report that they have -written statements from persons to the effect that the boy was able to run around as well as any normal boy of his age. j The youth was 'born Septem- ber 29, 1945, at Dixon, N. Mex., to Manuel G. and Rosa Fresquez Trujillo. Besides his parents, he is survived by seven brothers and a sister, Arnold, Leo, Don, Dan, Manuel Jr., Henry, Roy, and Lydia, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fresquez, Copperfield. The family took the (body to Penasco, N. Mex., - for burial. Bingham Mortuary were funeral directors. |