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Show Bolting Horse Kills Young Willow Creek Rancher, Church Leader; Funeral Held In Uernal 1st Ward Chapel Funeral services were held last Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Vernal First ward chapel for Robert Earl Hatch, 26, Willow Creek rancher, who died of injuries in-juries sustained April 18 when his horse apparently bolted and ran under a low-hanging limb of a tree, near his ranch at Willow Wil-low Creek. Bishop Ralph Durfee of the Leota ward, conducted the services. Mr. Hatch had been breaking the animal and had ridden to his brother's ranch. He started for home about sundown and when he failed to' arrive by 8 p.m. his father became alarmed and started out with an uncle of the man to look for him. They found his body at the base of a large mulberry tree on what is known as the old Thorne Ranch, Wednesday about 11 p.m. He apparently died instantly in-stantly of injuries suffered when the animal ran under the large limb. He was born March 31, 1927, at Willow Creek, a son of Golden Gold-en and Sadalice Leech Hatch. He was graduated from Uintah High School and served 18 months in the Navy during World War II. An elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, Mr. Hatch had been sustained sus-tained approximately two weeks earlier as presiding elder of a new branch of the church that had been organized. Willow Creek branch is a part of the Roosevelt stake. He married Mary tEksund on November 18, 1946, in the Salt Lake Temple and had been active ac-tive in the affairs of the Leota ward, where the church members mem-bers at Willow Creek were assigned. as-signed. Survivors include his widow, two children, Brent Earl and Berry Macal Hatch; his parents, two brothers and four sisters: I Donald C. Hatch, Willow Creek; David Hatch, Joanne. Carolyn Hatch and Mrs. Vera Eksund, all of Vernal, and Mrs. Norma Lee Brough, Randlett; and a grandfather, Earl Leech, Moab. Burial was in the Memorial Park Cemetery at Vernal, under the direction of the Vernal Mortuary. |