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Show SUFFERS FRACTURED SKULL Former Resident Killed in Traffic Accident Don Taylor, 47, a native of Parowan, but who has resided In southern California for the past 27 years, was fatally injured in-jured in an automobile accident on Monday, April 21. Although the accident happened Monday, he did not die until Wednesday when he was operated on for a head injury. The operation was performed in the hospital at Fontana, Calif . He was a resident resi-dent of Bloomington, Calif. He was engaged as a contrac-l tor In recent years, and was just' leaving home in a pickup truck j when a car driven by a woman I darted out of a side road, hit 'the Taylor car in the side and knocked Mr. Taylor clear out of j the car onto the hard road which j crushed his skull. Although he regained consciousness upon arrival ar-rival at the hospital he lapsed into unconsciousness and remained re-mained in that condition until the operation and death. Mr. Taylor was born In Paro-,wan, Paro-,wan, the son of George F. and Ellen Page Taylor and graduated graduat-ed from the focal high school, I leaving to make his home in I California when 20 years of age.' He was married shortly after I moving from here and is sur vived by his widow and two daughters whose names are Mrs. Kathleen Leonard and Miss Barbara Bar-bara Ann Taylor, a student at B Y U in Provo for the past two years. Also surviving are four sisters. Mrs. Dorothy Melville, Mrs. Ann Abbott and Mrs. Dan Pryor, all of Lynwood, CaJif, and Mrs. Wendell Larson, Gateway, Colo., and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held for Mr. Taylor Saturday in the L D S Ward chapel at Fontana wlthl Bishop Levi B. Thorp officiating, and burial was in the Green Acres memorial park at Bloomington. Bloom-ington. Don came to Parowan for the Taylor Family reunion Jast sum-mer sum-mer and spent several days renewing re-newing acquaintances In this community. ' |
