TAYLOR HATCH HANSON (died 25 June 1959)
Services Sunday For Taylor H. Hanson
With the Rev. Edward E. Frost of the Malad Presbyterian Church conducting funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Malad L.D.S. Stake-Third ward building for Taylor Hatch Hanson, 10, who died Thursday evening after a section of car antenna pierced his forehead.
The fatal accident happened about 3:15 Thursday afternoon when Taylor and his older brother, Ralph, 16, were playing in the Hanson yard and batting a ball. Ralph was swinging a baseball bat, his little brother swinging the antenna section. The bat slipped from Ralph’s hands, struck the antenna and drove it into the youngster’s forehead like an arrow. A piece of bone pierced the boy’s brain. He was rushed to the Oneida Hospital by his mother and brother and died about three hours later without ever regaining consciousness.
Taylor was born Nov. 17, 1948 at Malad to Marion and Deon Hatch Hanson. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, member of a team in the Little Baseball League and a reporter for the Junior Red Cross. He would have been in the fifth grade next fall.
Survivors are the parents; brother, Ralph; sisters, Geri and Trudy; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hanson, Malad; Mr. and Mrs. Abe Hatch, Vernal, Utah.
At the services vocal solos were sung by Natrone Ward and Louis Yearsley accompanied by Marcia Ward and Wesley Crowther who also played the prelude and postlude music. Flowers were carried by friends of the family and casket bearers were Michael Thomas, Burke Peterson, Brent Thorpe, David P. Evans, Jr., Jim Hartvigsen and Allen Harrison. Interment was at the Malad City Cemetery under the direction of the Benson Funeral Home. The Rev. Frost dedicated the grave.