GAYLON JONES

Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Malad LDS Second ward for Gaylon Jones, 19, who died Saturday morning (1954) at Tremonton of injuries sustained in a car accident, Friday.

Killed instantly in the head-on collision of two cars near Plymouth, Utah on Highway 91 was William J. McKnight, 23, of Sleepy Eye, Minn. Critically injured in the crash was Mr. McKnight’s 20-year-old bride of a week, Mrs. Nina McKnight. Mr. Jones was enroute to Malad from Utah when the accident occurred.

Gaylon Brig Jones was born at Los Angeles, Calif. February 6, 1935. He had lived in Los Angeles, Malad and Clearfield and was employed as a construction worker in Utah at the time of his death. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Jones, Clearfield, Utah; one brother, Daniel J. Jones, U. S. Army, Korea; one sister, Sandra Ronee Jones, Clearfield; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Brig W. Jones, Cherry Creek; Daniel M. Williams, Samaria.

Funeral services were conducted in the Malad LDS 2nd ward chapel with Bishop T. A. John of Cherry Creek in charge.

Family prayer was offered by Bishop John; invocation, Warren Ashton; benediction, Howell Williams; dedicatory prayer, Bishop Eldon Barlow. Speakers were J. Duffy Palmer, Morgan Harris and Bishop John. Musical numbers consisted of a vocal solo, Stillman Harris; vocal solo, Keith Evans; vocal duet, Vereen John and Wanda Napier. Prelude and postlude music was played by Mrs. Blanche Camp.

Those from out of town attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Searle, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Slater, Bishop and Mrs. Eldon Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Pierson, Mrs. Van L. Jeppeson, Ray Hansen, Bart Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Haws, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Haws, Mrs. Dell Korth, Mike Henich, Emily Henich, Mrs. William Edwards, Miss June Edwards, Mrs. Vetta Clifford, Miss Karma Clifford, Ogden.

Miss Madeline Jones, Miss Sonja Martin, Vaughn D. Larson, Clarence D. Hard, Mrs. Della Fredrickson, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ashton, Mr. and Mrs. Duffy Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Morse, Mrs. Margie Favero, Mr. and Mrs. John Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Verl Moon, Franklin Moon, Mrs. Jack Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Walt Ashton, Mrs. Delone Castor and son, Ogden.

Mrs. Ruby Fisher Halverson, Mrs. Barbara Atkinson Watson, Mrs. LaNae Atkinson Lemmon, Marjorie Atkinson Tobeas, Mrs. Rose Williams Bradshaw, Mrs. Alice Williams Pewtress, Delon Fifield, Ogden; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nelson, Tremonton; Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, Mrs. Mae Orison, Mrs. Doris Ashton, Mrs. Glen Nielsen and daughter, Logan.

Mrs. Orlene Bodily and daughter, Idaho Falls; Mr. and Mrs. John Allen, Mrs. Virgil Harris, Mrs. Will Harris, Mrs. Gibbs Allen, Portage; Mrs. Utahna Day, Mrs. Mary Ashton, Mrs. Donna Van Houten, John Ashton, Mr. and Mrs. Verl D. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Ashton, Pocatello; Mrs. Delene Bowcutt, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Audene Yearsley, Provo; Mrs. Stella Jones, Long Beach, Calif.; Marion Reese, Hunter, Utah.