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Show Funeral Today Months-Old Boy Drowns In Arcadia Canal; Third Victim Duchesen County, Tuesday, suffered its third drowning of the current year when Edwin George Evans, 16-months-old i son of Ardon B. and Ruth Lusty Evans of Arcadia, drowned at 5:30 p.m. in an irrigation canal near the family home. It was reported the youngsler had been playing in the yard with other children and when ha was missed by his mother, she became alarmed and summoned the father and others who were working on the farm. An immediate im-mediate search of the stream was made. An uncle, Clark Lusty, discovered dis-covered the boy's body after the canal had been drained in the search. It was lodged under a drop in a headgate about 200 yards from where it was thought he had toppled in. Attempts to save the child by artificial respiration proved fu-tile. fu-tile. On June 2 the 5-year-old son of Major and Mrs. Howard W. Jesse, Livittown, N. Y., Richard Fouse Jesse, slipped from a horse into the Lakefork river and was drowned while he and his parents were visiting at Arcadia. Ar-cadia. The third victim was Lorimer Wilford Rowley, 38, Myton. who slipped through a hole in the ice into the waters of the Duchesne Du-chesne river on Feb. 17 and was drowned. The Evans baby was born February 22; 1951 in Roosevelt. Survivors include his parents, five brother and sisters. Hugh L., Fred, Laird, Baird.'Mary Ellen El-len and Wilford Evans; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lusty. Arcadia,, and George H. Evans, Upalco. . ; Funeral services were conducted con-ducted today at 2 p. nv in the Arcadia Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Bishop Gam Gilbert. Burial was in the Upalco cemetery, cem-etery, under the direction of the Olpin Mortuary of Roosevelt. |