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Show Second Son From Floyd Ross Family To Drown In Same Area; Nine-Year-Old Died In Montez Creek A drowning tragedy struck the home of Floyd and Hazel Allen Ross, of Ballard, for the second time in less than two years, when their son, Larry, 16, was drowned Monday about 3 p.m. in the Uinta River, near Wing's Store on Highway 40. In August, 1952, another Ross boy. 9-year-old Devon, was drowned in Montez Creek, which is about two miles west from the scene of Monday's tragedy. Details of the drowning are not exactly clear. Larry and his two cousins, Gib and Lucky Ross had been swimming in the river since about 1 p.m. Later they were joined by a friend, Freddy Peck. The other boys said Larry became be-came tired and they assumed he had climbed out of the river. He disappeared and they were not able to find him. They summoned sum-moned help, among which was Larry's father, and a search was made of the river. His body was taken from the hole supposed to be about 15-feet deep, at about 7:30 that evening. Larry Ross was born Nov. 27, 1937, at Lapoint. He attended Union High School, where he would have been a junior the next school term. . He is survived by his parents and eight brothers and sisters, Weldon and Jim Ross, Myton; Mrs. Irene Roberts, El Monte, Calif.; George Ross, with the U. S. Air Force at Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mrs. Shirley Tanner,, Glen, TexRay and Juanita Lee, all of Ballard. Funeral services were held today, to-day, Thursday, in the Ballard chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under the direction of Bishop T. Golden Collins. Burial was in the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Cemetery under the direction direc-tion of the Olpin Mortuary, of Roosevelt. |