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Show Abe Young Killed In Auto Accident, Funeral Held Monday Funeral services were held In the Cedar First Ward Chapel Monday Mon-day afternoon for Abram Owen (Abe) Young, 32, who was killed in an automobile accident in Washington Wash-ington county early Friday morning morn-ing August 23rd. Young, a mechanic at the Jones-Crawford Jones-Crawford garage in Cedar City, was killed instantly when his car crashed crash-ed through a guard rail and overturned over-turned down a 40-foot embankment. 'The accident happened at 12:30 a. jm. about two and a half miles East of St. George. Washington county Sheriff An-tone An-tone B. Prince, who investigated the accident, reported that Mr. Young was thrown from the car when a door flew off and that his body landed In a pile of boulders fifteen feet frcm where the car stopped. A St. George physician reported that Mr. Young apparently died from a crushed skull when his head hit the boulders. Norman Cox of 8t. George, who was the first person to arrive at the scene of the accident, reported that the car Mr. Young was driving started start-ed to burn almost immediately, l and was completely destroyed Mr. Young was born in Hillsdale on March 11,. 1914, a son of Edward w. and Gladys Wilson Young, and had lived in Cedar City for the past 15 years. On August 26, 1937, he married Lois Haight of Midvalley, who with three small children, Sharon, Jan-,lce Jan-,lce and Abram Owen, survive him. He is also survled by his mother. .Hurricane, and eight bothers and sisters: John and Roscoe Young, Mrs. Leland Stout, Mrs. Flora Spendlove and Esther Young, all of Hurricane; Mrs. Vilate Hardy and Mrs. Robert Lower, LaVerkln, and Edward W. Young, Sparks, Nevada. The funeral services were conducted conduct-ed by Bishop H. P. Dotson of the Cedar First Ward. The musical program included two numbers, "Sometime We'll Understand'?, Un-derstand'?, and "Oh My Father", by the Enoch Ward Choir, directed by Myron S. Jones, and accompanied accompani-ed by Mrs. Grace Jones Smith; and a vocal solo, "A Perfect Day", by Myles Walker, accompanied by Speakers were Marvin Jones, Mrs. Beth Leigh. Grant Hunter, and Wilson Wood-ard. Wood-ard. Invocation was by Frank Arm-Strong, Arm-Strong, benediction by Clamont Adams, and dedication of grave by Parson U. Webster. |