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Show . Memorial Rites Will Honor Cedar City Pilot . , . !' w ' ' I Memorial services for Major Owen R. Allred will be held in the College ward, Monday, August, Aug-ust, 23, at 3 p. m. with Bishop Roscoe Grover conducting. Major Allred was killed August Aug-ust 23, 1947, when an AT-6 training train-ing plane he was piloting crashed crash-ed into the sea in the waters off Long Island near Glen Cove, New York. The body was never recovered. He had been studying electrical engineering at Rutgers university, universi-ty, New Brunswick, New Jersey, as an army air forces contact officer on detached duty from the army's Maxwell field, Alabama Ala-bama air force university. He graduated from the Branch Agricultural college as an honor student in 19-11. After graduation, gradua-tion, he enlisted for military duty du-ty and received his air force training in Texas and served with Merrill's Marauders as a squadron commander in the China-Burma-India theater. He was " awarded the legion of merit, silver sil-ver star, distinguished flying cross, eight oak-leaf clusters, and the air medal. He was born July 28, 1919 in Roosevelt, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Allred. His mother died when he was a small boy and he later came to Parowan and Cedar Citv to make his home where he made many friends. He is survived by his widow, the former Sua Sizer of Corpus Christ!, Texas, but who now resides re-sides in Riverside, California, also al-so his father of Redondo Beach, California, a sister, Cree Allred of Salt Lake City, three brothers, bro-thers, Jay, Duane and Arville, and several half brothers and sisters. |