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Show Throngs Attend Services For High School Student With townspeople and fellow students stu-dents of the American Fork high school thronging the auditorium, impressive funeral services were conducted con-ducted Wednesday afternoon in the Alpine stake tabernacle for Jesse Green. The American Fork high school student body attended the services as a group, and members of the Teachers' quorum of the Second ward, of which priesthood quorum Jesse was secretary, sat together in a separate section. Nearly nine hundred people attended the services. ser-vices. Bishop Joseph H. Storrs conducted conduct-ed the services. President Clifford j E. Young offered the invocation, and the high school chorus, under I direction of Kenneth J. Bird, sang "The Lord's Prayer". Speakers were W. S. Chipman, of the Second ward bishopric; John H. Miller, superintendent superin-tendent of the Sunday School; and A. B. Allen, instructor in the American Ameri-can Fork high school. Miss Mildred Chipman sang "Link Divine", accompanied ac-companied on the violin by Ronald Strong and Kenneth J. Bird and on the piano by Chloe Friday. The high school chorus sang, as a closing clos-ing number, "Peace, Troubled Soul", and LeRoy R. Griffin, Explorer leader of the Second ward pronounced pronounc-ed the benediction. Howard Pax-man Pax-man played the organ accompaniment accompani-ment to the choral numbers and the preliminary and closing music. Golden May of the American Fork L. D. S. Seminary dedicated the grave. Jesse, son of Phillip and Leah Bush Green, was accidentally shot to death Saturday morning while getting get-ting ready to go to the farm. The accident occurred at a barn on ,the property of his grandmother, Mrs. Jesse Green, about 9 a. m. He died shortly after in the Community hospital. Jesse, who was sixteen years of age, was a sophomore at the American Ameri-can Fork high school. He was a member of the high school orchestra and band. He was born February 17, 1923, at American Fork. He hadN lived here all his life. He was a member of the teachers' quorum in the Second ward, and a Second Class Boy Scout. He took an active interest in L. D. S. church activities. Of a cheerful and quiet disposition, disposi-tion, he was well-liked in school, and had a wide circle of friends. At home he assisted with work about the place, and helped with the farm work. Besides his parents he is survived by two brothers, Phillip and Don; two sisters, Elizabeth and Joan; two grandmothers, Mrs. Nancy Forbes Bush Coolbear of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Jesse Green of American Fork. o |