Leslie Hambleton

Leslie Roseanna Hambleton Breeze, 20, 1155 Ridgedale Cir., was buried 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 Lyman Breeze on April 14, 1966, at Salt Lake.  He died on Feb. 10, 1968, by his own hand.

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. 

   

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