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Show Parowan Native Dies in Sparks, Nevada Delmer S. Davis, 39, Portland, Ore, native of Parowan, died early ear-ly Tuesday morning in Sparks, Nev. after representing the Bureau Bu-reau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Wild-life at a meeting of the Interior Committee on Operating Criteria and Procedures, Truckee and Carson Car-son River Basins, Monday afternoon after-noon in Reno. Davis, a civil engineer, was stricken with a form of encephalitis enceph-alitis about six months ago while on a business trip in California Cali-fornia and was making an excellent ex-cellent recovery. He leaves his widow, Joy, four the Branch of Engineering for the 1905 calendar year, children, Michael 14, Jann 13, Kristine, nine, and Todd, 4; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Davis of Circleville; six brothers and a sister: his twin brother, Elmer, Logan; Robert, Pasco, Wash.; Clark, Zan and Leon, Salt Lake City; Marlow of Cedar City and Mrs. Verda Reynolds, American Ameri-can Fork. Funeral services were held on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 2 p. m. in the LDS Chapel in Portland. Davis and an identical twin brother, were born in Parowan, July 2, 1927. The boys attended the Parowan Elementary School and upon reaching high school j age the family moved to Circleville Circle-ville where he attended Piute High School and starred on the varsity basketball team with his twin. In 1945 he enliisted in the U. S. Navy, serving in a Carrier Car-rier Aircraft service unit, and was stationed at Pearl Harbor. In 1947, after discharge, he enrolled en-rolled in the College of Southern Utah at Cedar City for a year, and obtained a job as an engi-nering engi-nering aide with the Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service at Richfield. He attended Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College, Logan where he obtained his B. S. degree in civil engineering. He went to work as an engineer for the Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service. In 1958 he was appointed engineering chief for the Nevada Fish and Game Commission Com-mission and served in that capacity capa-city until 1961 when he joined : the bureau of Sport Fisheries ; and Wildlife as a hydraulic en-I en-I gineer. While working for the bureau 1 in Portland he won a special award for his Water Rights report re-port on Malheur National Wildlife Wild-life Refuge in December 1962; was given a quality increase in October 1963 for superior performance, per-formance, and in March 1966 won a special act award for his work as acting regional supervisor of |