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Show Tragic Accident Takes Lives Of Newly-Enlisted Army Privates; Double Services Held At Alpine r nouble funeral services for Irvin Bair and Ted H. Strong, vic-9 vic-9 h of a tragic accident near Sac" mento, California, Saturday, were Zi Thursday afternoon in the Alpine Al-pine ward chapel. Bishop Edward Burgess officiated. 3 two youths, newly enlisted , 5'S jnny" privates, were killed S.Uur- iS day in a leap from a traln "ear lhe Sacramento air repair depot where I they were stationed. News of the tragedy stunned the communities of Alpine and American Fork. Coroner Jack Garibaldi at Sacramento Sacra-mento said the youths died of fractured frac-tured skulls when they apparently in , attempted to jump from the mov-tag mov-tag train. They had been to Rose-rille, Rose-rille, a short distance from the depot, de-pot, for the evening and were re-ced. re-ced. turning by train, the .coroner said. A Southern Pacific railroad company com-pany inspector found . the bodies which were identified by Private Rodney Moon of the Seventh Trans-port Trans-port squadron, to which the young men were attached. The youths were natives and longtime long-time residents of Alpine, and had mart been virtually inseparable compan-;ri0rt compan-;ri0rt ions almost all their lives. They en- listed together, on September 6, and r'Pei vere transferred to the Sacramento depot. Both attended schools in Alpine and American Fork, and were active to the L. D. S. church. Ted H. Strong was 'born in Al-' Al-' pine, on April 13, 1922, a son of s Claude and Mildred Hall Strong. He was graduated from the American Amer-ican Pork high school last spring. He is survived by his mother, of American Fork; four brothers, Lloyd E. and Douglas Strong of Amer- 3ican Fork, Marion L. Strong of Wcstwood, California, and Ray E. t Strong of Alpine; four sisters, Beu-lah, Beu-lah, Nona, Lillian and Lloydece Strong, all of American Fork; and -I", one grandmother, Mrs. Anna E. ggjg Hall of American Fork. Irvin G. Bair was born in Alpine T i in June, 1922, a son of Joseph Le-(OlcS Le-(OlcS roy and Lyle Healey Bair. He attended at-tended the American Fork high "ampt school until 1939, when he moved :e the t to Glasgow, Montana, with his par-1 par-1 SePfc ents, and was graduated from Glasgow Glas-gow high school last spring. Surviving are his parents, of Laure: Glasgow; four brothers, Lloyd, Jos-arentst Jos-arentst eph and Jack Bair of Alpine, and er 15. Evan Bair, now on a mission in Tennessee; two sisters, Mrs. Beryll son ol t Carlisle of Alpine, and Miss Car-care Car-care it - toll Bair of Glasgow; and four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Healey of Alpine, and Mr. and Mrs. mands Joseph E. Bair of Woods Cross, is week Utah. The interments were in the Alien Al-ien rent pine cemetery. ;rnvpai n |