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Show GENE ELVIS SIMMONS TRIDELL Funeral services for Gene Elvis Simmons, 20, were held Wednesday, Sept. 17 in the Tridell ward chapel with Ray McKee conducting. . Musical numbers were furnished fur-nished by a male quartet, the Rasmussen sisters from Lapoint, and the Lapoint girls' chorus and included the selections, "Sometime "Some-time We'll Understand." "Softly and Tenderly," and "My Father Knows." The invocation was offered of-fered by James Harvey and the benediction by Bishop LeRoy H. Morrill. Bishop Lee Walker, of Lapoint; Dewey McConkie, of Tridell, and Pres. Jessie Haws, of Vernal, were the speakers. Mr. Simmons died Saturday morning at 2 a. m. in the Uintah county hospital at Vernal from injuries incurred in an accident at the Rangely oil field on Sept. 18 at 1 p. m. He was born at Roosevelt, July 19, 1927, a son of George E. and Elsie Morrott Simmons. He attended Tridell Elementary school and Alterra High school. He joined the Merchant Mer-chant Marine in April, 1945, and served in the South Pacific leased from the Merchant Marine " in 1946, he worked for a time at the Bonanza Gilsonite mines t He married Twilla Rae Bigelow" ' of Lapoint, on August 25, 1947'' and began working in the RaW ly field on August 26. Mr. Simmons is survived bv his widow; his parents; 5 broth ers, Orin E. Simmons. B. Sim mons, Merlyn and Leon Sim I mons, all of Tridell; 5 sisters ! Mrs. Charles Swartz and Mrs' Wayne Morrill, Orem; Mrs. RUsl sell West, Middleton, Ohio- Mra. I Ray C. Holt, Artesia, Colorado- ' Verena Simmons, Tridell; and his paternal grandparents', Mr and Mrs. George E. Simmons Heber. Burial was in the Lapoint cemetery with William K. Har-ivcy Har-ivcy dedicating the grave. |