Katherine Ann Jones Aylworth – 9 July 1920

Three of Family Killed in Utah Collision Sunday

A former Malad woman and two other members of her family were killed in a three-vehicle pileup on Interstate Highway south of Cudahy Lane near Salt Lake City early Sunday morning.

Dead are Mrs. Lowell P. (Katherine Ann Jones) Aylworth, her daughter, Marsha Aylworth 14; Mrs. Aylworth’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Michael (Lorr????) Knapton Aylworth, 21 also of Salt Lake City. Also injured in the crash which happened when the family was returning from a visit to Malad were Lowell Aylworth, 48, who sustained severe head injuries and is in critical condition at St. Marks Hospital; Michael Aylworth, whose condition is described poor; Dennis Aylworth 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Aylworth, listed in fair condition.

Services Scheduled

Funeral services for Katherine Aylworth and Marsha are scheduled 11 a.m. Thursday, at the Larkin Funeral Home 270? Evergreen Ave. (3425 So.) Salt Lake City.

Officer’s Report

The three killed apparently died instantly when a heavily laden semi-truck and trailer collided with the rear of the stopped Aylworth car.

Davis County Deputy Sheriff Glenn Clary said the Aylworth family had stopped on the southbound lane of Interstate 15 shortly after midnight to give assistance to R. C. Merrill, 171 W. 2nd North, Salt Lake City, whose automobile had run out of gasoline.

As Merrill approached the Aylworth car, the southbound truck carrying 40,000 pounds of meat struck the car, ramming it into the rear of the Merrill vehicle.

Deputy Clary identified the truck’s driver as Kenneth Woordward, 45, Strom Lake, Iowa. All three vehicles were carried more than 100 feet by the force of the impact. The truck overturned and the Aylworth car was crushed between the other two vehicles. Neither Mr. Woodard nor his relief driver, Richard Holtman, 19, Cherokee, Iowa was injured.

Deputy Clary said he had issued a traffic citation to the truck driver for traveling too closely and other citations are pending.

Born at Malad

A daughter of the late Joseph and Ann Jones, Mrs. Katherine Ann Jones Aylworth was born July 9, 1920 in Malad. She married Lowell P. Aylworth Oct. ?1, 1941 in Reno, Nevada and their marriage was later solemnized in the Logan LDS Temple.

Survivors include her husband and two sons, Michael and Daniel; one granddaughter; four brothers and two sisters, Mrs. James (Sarah) Beeten, Bountiful; Dr. Lewis W. Jones, Logan; Mrs. Mark (Dora) Roylance, Salt Lake City; J. Clifford Jones, Malad; Merlin H. Jones, Pocatello and Daniel L. Jones, Bountiful.