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Show Last Rites Honor Memory Of Donald B.Ford : ' - - ' 1 1 ' " - f ' Lr w 1 jiLZLs.,-Ji ' 2' i' '.'l DONALD B. FORD Final tribute va paid Donald B. Ford, 30, who lost his life in a tragic plane crash last week, when funeral services were conducted con-ducted Saturday afternoon In the First Ward chapel. Mr. Ford was killed instantly when a light plane in which he was dusting crops in the farm area near My-ton, My-ton, Utah, crashed as he circled the field. He suffered leg and neck fracture it was reported. A native of Cedar City, he was a popular member of the faculty facul-ty of the Cedar City Junior High School and had gained prominence promin-ence locally and throughout the state in the field of student guidance. guid-ance. He was born in Cedar City on Dec. 17, 1923, a son of Lester and Ardella Bateman Ford. He attended at-tended Cedar City schools and was graduated from the Cedar City High School in 1952. He later lat-er attended the Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural College and was graduated from Brigham Young University in 1949. During World War II he served with the U. S. Air Force as a pilot and radar flight instructor. In recent re-cent years he had spent his summer sum-mer vacation periods associated with the Parkair Flying Service, doing extensive crop dusting throughout the state.' He married Carolyn Horton of Circleville on June 9, 1949. He is survived by his widow, his mother and a daughter, Mary Catherine Ford, all of Cedar City, and his father, Elko, Nev. The funeril services were conducted con-ducted by Bishop James Hey wood and speakers were Clifton Chat-terley, Chat-terley, a fellow faculty member; Ianthus Wright, superintendent of Iron County Schools, and George W. Gnmshaw. Invocation was by A. E. Whatcott, benediction benedic-tion by C. B. Ciane, Circleville, and the dedicatory prayer by William Bateman, Salt Lake City. The musica'. program included two song by a ladies trio composed com-posed of Luana Riddle, Gladys Isom and Naida Gardner; a vocal solo by Bert Carpenter and a violin so'o by Roy L. Halversen, with organ prelude and postlude by Belle Jones. |
