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Show Final Rites Held In Logan For Former Deltan Funeral services were conducted In Logan on Tuesday a week ago for Garth Ernest Blackburn, 32, who was killed the preceding Saturday Sat-urday when 'his light plane crashed crash-ed west of the Salt Lake Municipal Munici-pal Airport. Mr. Blackburn, a Logan resident at the time of his death, was born in Delta December 12, 1919, a son of Ernest and Melba Turner Blackburn. He had lived in Delta until he was 12 years old, attending attend-ing Delta elementary schooL The family moved to Montana In 1931, and his parents now reside at Great Falls. He was one of a family of twelve twel-ve children, of whom ten are surviving. sur-viving. He was married to Eileen Davis Dec. 5, 1940, in Logan, and made his home there. He was working a sawmill at Mackay, Idaho, at the time of his death, and was required to fly between Salt Lake City and Mackay on business trips. He had attended USAC for three years, and was an active LDS member. -- He is survived by his wife and three children, Cheryl, Brent and Julia Ann of Logan, and his parents par-ents and family at Great Falls. An account of th circumstances of the crash that led to his death was given last week in Wlngovers. |