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Show t!DEAfHS- HAROLD RUSSELL BENNETT Funeral services were conducted Monday at 1 p.m. in the Ballard ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Latter-Day Saints, for Harold Russell. 24, who died in a Salt Lake hospital hos-pital Jan. 15, at 3:15 p.m. after a brief illness. James E. Bacon, president of the Uintah Basin Indian mission, conducted the services. A son of Dee Russell and Mrs. Ora Murdock, Harold was born in Price, Nov. 28, 1928. He spent most of his early life in the Whiterocks area, where he attended at-tended school, until his enlistment enlist-ment in the United States Army in 1946. He served 22 months in Japan and was discharged in May, 1949. Death was attributed to Arsenic poisoning contracted in a chemical plant in Salt Lake where he was employed. A member of the L.D.S. church, he was a deacon in the Bennett ward, and was married to lone Cromer March 28, 1952 in Salt Lake City, where they resided. Other survivors in addition to his father, mother and wife, include in-clude a brother, Reuben, of Salt Lake; two sisters, Mrs. Elmer (Wanda) Hackford, Bennett, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Edgerly. of Colorado Springs, Colo. A brother, broth-er, Orvid Russell, died in 1945 in a Japanese prison camp during dur-ing World War II. music lor tne services was furnished by a quartet composed com-posed of Mrs. Loren Ior, Mrs. Jennie Jensen, Mrs- Lula Murdock Mur-dock and Mrs. Elga Perry, accompanied ac-companied by Mrs. Chris Bodily. Mrs. Iorg played the prelude and postlude music. Speakers were John P. Bowden. Bishop John Haslem of the Bennett ward, Rex Curry and Mr. Bacon Ba-con The invocation was offered by Charles Bolton, the benediction benedic-tion by Earl Gardner and" Mr. Bacon dedicated the grave. Burial was in the Roosevelt cemetery under the direction of Dillman Mortuary, where brief military services were held under un-der the direction of the Basin and Fort Duchesne posts of the American Legion. Thev also sun-plied sun-plied pall-bearers. li 1 " |