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Show 8-Year-0Id Boy Drowns Sunday In Montez Creek Funeral services were held at the Ballard L D S chapel under direction of Golden Collins, Col-lins, bishop, for Lavon Ross, 8-year-old boy who drowned Sunday Sun-day at about 12:30 while wading in Montez Creek near Victorv Park. The victim, a son of Floyd and Hazel Allen Ross, Ballard, had gone to the creek with a neighbor, Virgil Head. Neither of the two youngsters could1 swim and they were playing on I a sandbar along the edge of the stream. The water droos suddenly sudden-ly from shallow water to T to 1 10 feet depth at the sandbai. The body was pulled from the-water the-water by a passing motorist who noticed the Head boy running for help. Efforts to revive the boy by means of artificial respiration res-piration failecr. |