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Show Hi School Senior Loses Life In Canyon Car Crash ' .... - , i CHRISTINE LAMBERT I Residents throughout the area! were shocked Saturday when the death of Cedar City Police Chiefs daughter, Christine Lambert, 17, was announced following an accident ac-cident three miles east on the Canyon road. She is the daughter of Chief of Police and Mrs. Anton H. Lambert. Death was apparently Instantaneous Instan-taneous when the car In which she was riding went out of control con-trol on a turn, went off to the left of the highway onto the mountain then tipped over on Its top and skidded for several hundred hun-dred feet in that position. The car ended up on Its top after making a half-turn while skidding skid-ding and was facing in the opposite op-posite direction. The girl was thrown from the car then pinned beneath and dragged a distance of 260 feet, according to Utah Highway Patrol Pa-trol Trooper Bill Burch, who was the investigating officer. Three other occupants of the car were uninjured. They were Robert Delaney, 21, driver of the car; Diane Miller and Mike Hig- An overflowing crowd assembled assem-bled at the Cedar City Stake House Tuesday afternoon to attend at-tend final rites held for the popular pop-ular teen-ager. A good student, she was described des-cribed as a popular girl and active ac-tive In extra curricular activities at the school. She participated in a number of events such as special panels and was in the fall of 1962, a candidate for the coveted title of Miss Iron County. Speakers at the funeral services ser-vices Tuesday for Miss Lambert Included Douglas Russell, one of Miss Lambert's high school (Continued on Page 3) GAR CRASH (Coatlaued from Front Page) teachers; and Cedar West Stake President, Frank D. Day. A tribute tri-bute was paid by the High School Senior Class and remarks were made by Gary Smith and by Bp. James C. Sandberg, who presided. Musical numbers included a selection 'Though Deepening Trials," by the Sixth Ward Choir; and a number "My Dream Is of An Island Place,'' by a string ensemble en-semble including Hoy L. Haiver-sen, Haiver-sen, Evelyn Jones, Kobert Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, Mary MacDonald, June Thorley and Carol Ann Jones. Prayer at the mortuary prior to the services was by Douglas Jackson. Dr. Hoyden C. Braith-waite Braith-waite gave the invocation and the dedication of the grave at the Cedar City cemetery was by Joseph S. Lambert. She was born in Cedar City. May 6, 1945, a daughter of Anton H. and lone Jackson Lambert. She is survived by her parent?: a brother, Kir by; two sisters, Mrs. iitcnard u.iy) iioc. - ... Miss Ember Lambert, all of Cedar Ce-dar City; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J-ambert, Lent, and by an aunt ard uncie, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smitu, Cedar City. |