STEVE J. REED

Funeral Wednesday for Steve J. Reed

Funeral service was conducted Wednesday morning for Steve J. Reed, age 54, who was found dead here Sunday morning [May 3, 1970].

Bishop Earl A. Gillies officiated at the service at Benson Funeral Home. Speakers were Patriarch A. G. Willie and D. LeRoy Thomas, who also read the obituary. Invocation was offered by Bishop Carl A. Evans and the benediction, by George Lewis. Carolyn Ward sang a solo and Fern Willie played a violin solo. Prelude and postlude music and the accompaniment were played by Myra Jean John.

At Malad City Cemetery, Raiford G. Benson offered the dedicatory prayer. Military rites were performed by American Legion, Ernest W. Jones Post No. 65. Casket bearers were David Reed, Jimmy Reed, Joe Reed, Joe Morgan, Claude Williams and Dale Webb.

Burial was directed by Benson Funeral Home.

Mr. Reed was born at Malad in 1916, a son of James H. and Lilly Cena Jensen Reed. He married Grace Vaughan in 1939 at Malad; they were divorced. He married Josephine Putnam in 1947 at American Falls. She died in 1965. Mr. Reed was a World War II Veteran.

Surviving are a son and two daughters, Steve Reed Nelson, Erma Reed Nelson, Bancroft; Mrs. Gale Burns, San Diego, California; mother, Long Beach, Calif.; brothers, James P., Salem, Utah; John A. Kaysville, Utah; Tony A., Huntington Beach, Calif.

Mr. Reed was found dead Sunday morning by Malad City police Chief Wendell Monson who was taking him his breakfast.

Mr. Reed was being held in Oneida County jail on a driving while intoxicated citation following a minor accident on South Main Saturday afternoon when the vehicle he was operating struck a parked car owned by Francis Facer. He was taken to Oneida Hospital by the investigating officer, Clarence Anderson, for treatment of a cut on his lip. An autopsy performed Monday at Bannock Memorial Hospital, Pocatello, showed Mr. Reed had died of internal bleeding caused when a broken rib punctured a lung. Chief Monson stated.