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Show Services Are Held For Crash Victims Impressive funeral services were held this Thursday in the Milford L. D. S. ward chapel for Jack E. Neely, his ten-year old daughter, Mary Lou, and Stanley H. Vernon, victims of Milford's latest tragedy the tailspin crash of a small plane in which they were riding Monday evening. Mrs. Parley B. Fisher furnished prelude and postlude organ music for both services, also organ and piano accompaniment for the vocal numbers. Floral offerings in both cases were beautiful and profuse, testifying vividly to the love and esteem in which all three were held by bereaved relatives and friends. Services for Mr. Vernon, pilot of the plane, were held at 1 o'clock under the direction of Bishop Car-lyle Car-lyle Gronning, with Clarence J. Wendel and Bishop Gronning as the speakers. Both paid glowing tribute to Mr. Vernon's valued service in community and church activities. Musical numbers consisted con-sisted of a vocal duet, "In the Garden," by.- Mrs. Loretta Cline and Mrs. Ernma Griffiths; a violin solo, "Traumerai", by Kenneth C. Farrer, with Mrs. Farrer accompanying; accomp-anying; and a vocal solo, "When You Come To the End of a Perfect Day," by J. M. Hughes. The opening and closing prayers were offered by Merrill Jameson and Leonard Banks, respectively. Following the local services, the casket was prepared pre-pared for shipment to Salt Lake City for further services and interment inter-ment in Wasatch Lawn cemetery. Pallbearers for Mr. Vernon were members of the local Air Scout troop, of which he was leader. Services for Mr. Neely and Mary Lou were held at 3 o'clock, also under the direction of Bishop Gronning, he and Harry Jackson of Salt Lake City being the speakers. speak-ers. Mr. Jackson, a fellow locomotive locomo-tive engineer,' is a frequent speaker speak-er at services for railroad employes em-ployes and his words of tribute, though low-voiced for the large crowd in attendance, were followed follow-ed with close attention. Musical numbers included a violin solo, "I'll See You In My Dreams," by Mrs. Macel Horton, and a vocal solo, "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day," by Vance Fisher. The invocation was offered by Rudolph Nielsen and the benediction benedic-tion by G. Carl Goodwin. A large number of local people and others accompanied the cortege to Bea- ver, where burial took place in Mountain View cemetery. Fellow railroad enployes served as pallbearers. pall-bearers. j Mr. Neely was born August 3, 1901 at Pueblo, Colorado and had been a resident of Utah since 1916, having attended West high school in Salt Lake City when his family moved there. He was married to Eva Grimshaw of Beaver in 1923 and they came to Milford some eight years ago. He started working work-ing for the railroad in 1923 as a fireman and on June 16, 1931 was promoted to engineer. He was a faithful member of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and also of the Union Pacific Old-Timers club. Cabinet making was his hobby and his carefulness and ingenuity along this line placed his services in great demand whenever he could spare the time from his railroad work and work on his North Main street home, in which he took a great deal of interest and pride. 'Though not having held civil office ' (Continued en last paffe) Services Are Held (Continued trom first page) of any kind, always he was alert to the best interests of the town and its people, being a fine citizen in the fullest meaning of the word. Mr. Xeely is survived by his widow, his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Brown of Salt Lake City, and a sister, Mrs. Richard Rich-ard J. Sexton of Reno, Nevada. Little Mary Lou Neely, only living liv-ing child, was born May 2S, 1935, at San Bernardino, California. A bright and beautiful little girl, shej was the idol of both parents from babyhood to her untimely passing, with a host of friends among young and old alike. She had completed com-pleted the fourth grade in the local elementary school, where she had the reputation of being a good student. Stanley H. Vernon, a Union Pacific Pa-cific dispatcher at the time of his untimely death, was born in Oakley Oak-ley July 6, 1916. He graduated from Tooele high school in 1935, taking an active interest in Scouting Scout-ing and becoming assistant Scoutmaster Scout-master .the year following his graduation. He later graduated (in 1937) from a course in television, taken at Kansas City, and had made radio and photo-developing a hobby and remunerative activity, taking keen delight in making mak-ing photo prints for boys in the armed services, cfpecially those in Pacific areas for friends and strangers alike. He continued his interest in Scouting locally by serving as leader of a troop of Air Scouts and was also active as a sportsman, having been elected to the presidency of the Milford Wildlife Protective association at the recent annual meeting of the club. Joining the Milford Lions club at the time of its reactivation last November, he was serving serv-ing in the capacity- of first vice president in the new setup. He was married September 9, 1931 to Evelyn Johnson of Silver City at that place. First entering Union Pacific service as a telegraph tele-graph operator in 1937, he later became a dispatcher and served at Las Vegas, Nevada, prior to coming com-ing to Milford April 10, 1942. "Stan" is survived by his widow, five-year old daughter, Linda Lee; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Vernon, and sister Bonnie, all of Milford; a brother, Weston, serving with an army searchlight "battalion in New Guinea; and two grandfathers, grand-fathers, Joseph Vernon of .Wanship and George G. Stevens of Los Angeles. |