Van Latimer

September 5, 1970

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

Van Brian Latimer was born December 3, 1946.

Van died September 5, 1970 and is buried in the Valley View Memorial Park, West Valley City, UT.

Don Cassidy

April 14, 1970

Donald Charles Cassidy 24, died April 14, 1970 in San Diego, CA.  Born on December 2, 1946, Jersey City, NJ to James J and Donnette Worthen Cassidy.  Graduate Granger High School; active in sports, lettering in baseball; member church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  He served four years in the US Navy, three tours to Vietnam; electronic engineer.

Survivors: parents, grandparent, Mrs. Dora Worthen, Salt Lake City, sisters: Mrs. William (Patricia) Clark, Doreen, both Granger.

Funeral services Monday, 2:00 PM, Granger 10th Ward chapel.  Interment at Redwood Memorial Estates, West Jordan, UT.

Barbara Salisbury

September 1969

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

Barbara Salisbury was born December 8, 1946 and died in September 1969.  She is buried in Valley View Memorial Park, Salt Lake City, UT.

Gail Qualls

March 3, 1968

Virgil Gail (Joe) Qualls was a very talented young man who had great promise in this life. He was an accomplished artist, who had won many contests including out of state. He was tragically taken on March 3, 1968 in an auto accident in Magna Utah. He had been out having fun with his buddy and were killed together in the wreckage. Joe loved his car that was totaled in the wreck as well.

He was born to Virgil Gail Qualls and Barbara Leonne Murdock Qualls on July 23, 1947. He was well loved and liked by many. He will live on forever in the hearts of our family. Joe was buried in the Valley View Memorial Park in West Valley City, UT. 

Below is one of the articles written about the accident.

County Youths Die in Traffic Mishap
Two young men who were killed instantly late Saturday, March 3, 1968, when their sports car crashed into the front end of oncoming truck were identified today as Virgil Gail Qualls Jr., 20, of 1475 W 6235 S, and Thomas Glen Kump, 18, of 4790 S 4300 W.

The deaths raised Utahs traffic toll to 30 for the year, compared to 34 at this time last year. Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff Ned Franson said the two men were passing another car on 2100 South at 6400 West when their auto began skidding sideways.

It veered across the highway into the path of the oncoming eastbound van loaded with furniture bound for Denver. Deputy Franson said the impact was so great the sports car was torn apart and hurled off the south side of the highway.

The van driven by Michael Warren Fisher, 24, of Los Angeles continued down the highway and went off on the other side of the road.

Officers were unable to determine which of the victims was driving the car.

Salt Lake Tribune 4 March 1968

Doug Williams

February 19, 1968

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

Douglas Condit Williams was born August 12, 1947 in Orange, NJ to Elwood Condit and Grace Margret Timm Williams.  He enlisted in the US Army on April 17, 1967 and was killed February 19, 1968 by hostile gunfire in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam.  Doug received the Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service and Vietnam Campaign medals.

Doug is buried in the Valley View Memorial Park, West Valley City, UT.

Sergeant
B BTRY, 2ND BN, 94TH ARTILLERY, 108TH ARTY GROUP, XXIV CORPS, USARV
Army of the United States
Salt Lake City, Utah
August 12, 1947 to February 19, 1968
DOUGLAS C WILLIAMS is on the Wall at Panel 40E, Line 34
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Leslie Hambleton

February 10, 1968

Buried, Leslie Roseanna Hambleton Breeze, 20, 1155 Ridgedale Cir., in Wasatch Lawn memorial Park yesterday, Feb. 14, 1968, following services at Grant 6th ward chapel.  She died Feb. 10, 1968 of a gunshot wound in the head, according to investigating authorities.  Born July 7, 1947 at Salt Lake to Roseanna Conyers and Merrill Hambleton.  Married to Kay L. Breeze on April 14, 1966 at Salt Lake; he died on Saturday.

Member of Grant 6th LDS ward.  Graduate of Granger High in 1965.  Survivors: father, Salt Lake, mother, Mrs. Roseanna Pitts, Salt Lake, brothers, Robert, Richard, Stephen Hambleton, Derald John, Jeffery Scott Pitts, all of Salt Lake, sister, Carolee Hambleton, Salt Lake, grandparents, Mrs. Lucile Conyers, Mrs. Hilda Hambleton, both of Salt Lake.  Lehi Hambleton, CA. 

Murray Eagle, 15 Feb 1968.

Gunshot Kill S. L. Sheriff’s Deputy, Wife

A Salt Lake county Sheriff’s deputy and his wife were killed Saturday in an apparent murder-suicide, Sheriff’s Lt. L. D. Hayward said.  The victims were identified as Kay Lyman Breeze, 30 and his wife, Leslie, 20.  The shooting occurred shortly before 2:30 PM in the laundry room in the basement of the home owned by Mrs. Breeze’s mother, Rose Pitts.  Mrs. Pitts was upstairs at the time.

Mrs. Breeze was shot through the neck, arm and lower abdomen with the deputy’s service revolver.  Breeze was shot once, through the head.  The couple had been separated a short time and Mrs. Breeze apparently was living at her mother’s home.

“Breeze was with the sheriff’s department 6 1/2 years.  He had a very good record,” Hayward said.  Breeze had been assigned to the detectives’ division.

Ogden Standard Examiner, Sunday February 11, 1968

Emory Jorgensen

November 6, 1967

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

Emory Lee Jorgensen was born May 8, 1947 in Monterey, CA to Roy Allen and Irene Berl Hodge Jorgensen.  He joined the US Army in Salt Lake City, UT and became an infantryman, airborne qualified in the 2ND PLT, D CO, 4TH BN, 503RD INFANTRY, 173RD ABN BDE, USARV.  The tour that took his life began June 2, 1967.  He was lost in action at the age of 20 in Kontum Province, South Vietnam on November 6, 1967, killed by hostile gunfire.  Emory was awarded the Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service and Vietnam Campaign Medals.

Emory is buried in the Valley View Memorial Park, West Valley City, UT.

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James Schiele

July 12, 1967

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

James Francis Schiele was born October 11, 1946 in Davenport, IA to Jerold Edward and Arlene Graba Schinckel Schiele.  He enlisted in the US Army March 30, 1966 as an infantryman and was declared dead March 27, 1978, nearly 11 years after he went missing in action in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam.  His body was not recovered.   James was awarded the Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service and Vietnam Campaign medals.

In Memory of  SSGT. James Francis Schiele
Staff Sergeant Schiele was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. On July 12, 1967, he was on a search and destroy mission along the Cambodian border when his unit was overrun. He was badly wounded and listed as Missing in Action. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Staff Sergeant
B CO, 1ST BN, 12TH INFANTRY, 4TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Granger, Utah
October 11, 1946 to March 27, 1978
(Incident Date July 12, 1967)
JAMES F SCHIELE is on the Wall at Panel 23E, Line 65
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A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 12 July 1967, the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry, was engaged in the Ia Drang Valley by a battalion or larger force from the 66th NVA Regiment. When engaged, the 1/12's three rifle companies were physically separated, allowing the enemy force to attack the companies individually - B Company and C Company were isolated and taken under attack. Although C Company suffered only minor losses (5 wounded and none killed), B Company took heavy losses.

When the fighting ended seven US soldiers could not be located. Six years later, five of them returned from North Vietnamese POW camps, but two did not. SP4 James F. Schiele is believed to have died in captivity; his body has not been recovered.

John Kaas

June 20, 1967

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

John Dennis Kaas was born September 9, 1944 in East Ely, NV to Edward Peter and Inez Wood Evans Kaas. 

John was the third of seven children: Mary Ellen, Jesse Edward, Inez Ilene, Janice, Christy Lynn, and Ronald P. Kaas.

John passed away on June 20, 1967 in Washington, DC and is buried in the Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, UT.

Deen Scoffield

May 21, 1967

Bennion, Salt Lake County - Funeral services for Deen Bradshaw Scoffield, 20, 5685 S. Redwood Road, who was killed May 21, in Park City, will be Wednesday 12:30 p.m., Bennion LDS Ward chapel, 6215 S. Redwood Rd. Friends may call at 4330 S. Redwood Road Tuesday from 6-8 p.m., at the chapel Wednesday one hour prior to services. Burial Valley View Memorial Park.

Born Jan. 4, 1947, Salt Lake City, to Deen A. and Marie Bradshaw Scoffield. Married Suzanne Swain Aug. 6, 1965, Salt Lake City. Mechanic. Member LDS Church.

Survivors: widow; son, Anthony, Bennion; parents, Kearns; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Bradshaw, Roy; brother, sisters, Robert C. of Kearns; Mrs. Michael C. (Pat) Brown, Salt Lake City; Mrs. David G. (Paula) Strand, Granger.

SUSPECT, 35, HEARS SLAY CASE COUNT

A Park City man, Jerry R. Marcellin, 35, Monday was charged with second degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Salt Lake County man on Park City's Main Street early Sunday morning.

Victim of the shooting, which occurred in front of the Treasure Mountain Inn, was Deen Bradshaw Scoffield, 20, 5685 S. Redwood Rd.

His brother, Robert Carl Scoffield, 18, 5561 S. 4120 West, Kearns, was wounded in the hand.

Ronald R. Robinson, Summit County sheriff, said he believed a single shot hit the younger brother's hand and then struck the victim near the heart. Park City Police Officer Merrial Street, who was driving a patrol car near the scene of the shooting, said he saw two men standing at the driver's side of a car stopped in the middle of the street.

He then heard one shot and one of the men fell to the ground.

Park City Precinct Justice James B. Kilby said Marcellin had been released on $5,000 bail. A preliminary hearing has been set for June 27. The complaint was signed before Justice Kilby by the county sheriff.

The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday, May 23, 1967, page 34

Logan Young

April 10, 1966

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet)

Logan Dale Young was born March 30, 1947 in Taylorsville, UT to Lamont Dale and Eunice Pearl Preston Young.  He was the older brother to Stewart Dale Young who died in 1974.

Logan died on April 10, 1966 in Pleiku, Gia Lai, Vietnam.  He is buried in Taylorsville, UT.  Logan was awarded the National Defense, Vietnam Service and Vietnam Campaign medals.

Click on link> Logan Dale Young
Specialist Four
C CO, 2ND BN, 8TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Salt Lake City, Utah
March 30, 1947 to April 10, 1966
LOGAN D YOUNG is on the Wall at Panel 6E, Line 96
         

      

David Stephens

September 20, 1964

(Obituary compiled from information found on the Internet.)

David Lamain Stephens was born on January 21, 1947, in Montpelier, Idaho to Thomas Carlyle and Lorraine Caldwell Stephens.  He had five siblings.

David died as a teenager on September 20, 1964, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was buried in Montpelier, ID.  David’s father preceded him in death in 1954 and his mother in 1963.