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Show Fvli. Emmons Pan Dies of Self inflicted Wounds MT. EMMONS Rulon .Powell, .Pow-ell, 44-year-old Mt. Emmons farmer, was found dead Thursday, Thurs-day, July 13, of a self-inflicted bullet wound in his head, according ac-cording to Duchesne County-Sheriff County-Sheriff Arzy Mitchell. A suicide note, saying that he was tired, ill, and felt that his family would be better off without with-out him, was found, Sheriff Mitchell Mit-chell said. A neighbor of Mr. Powell, noticing that Mr. Powell's horses were in the grain field instead of the pasture, investigated and discovered the body. Sheriff Mitchell and Deputy Orin Olsen answered his call for officers. -111 Mr. Powell was born March 2, 1905, in Desert Lake, south of Price, a son of Joseph and Al-ta Al-ta Hadden Powell. He moved to the Uintah Basin in 1916, when the family homesteaded in Mt. Emmons, where he has resided re-sided most of the time since. He married LaVerda Lister in Mt. Emmons, Jan. 8, 1927. He :s survived by his widow, wi-dow, M.s. Alta Gardner, Mid-vale; Mid-vale; two sons, Arnold, and an infant son, born July 18 at Midvale; two daughters, Lavada and Donna, Mt. Emmons; three brothers, Roy Powell, Orem; Harold Powell, Cody, Wyo; and Lloyd Powell, Salt Lake; 7 sisters sis-ters Mrs. I.lattie Kenworthy, Tooele; Mrs. Thanelda Marsing, Duchesne; Mrs. Eva Wall, Mrs. Rada Wall, Mrs. Theora Grigg, all of Midvale; Mrs. Virginia Parker, Provo; and Mrs. Milda Patton, Orem. Funeral services for Mr. Powell Pow-ell under the direction of Wil-kr'd Wil-kr'd B. Mecham, were conducted conduct-ed Monday afternoon in the Mt Emmons ward chapel. Burial Bur-ial was in the Mt. Emmons cemetery. |
