THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948, PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN
CPL. DOYLE L. SIMMONS
HEBER--Graveside services for Cpl. Doyle L. Simmons, 21, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in Heber city cemetery by Grant B. Jensen, bishop of Storrs ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spring Canyon, Carbon county.
Cpl. Simmons was killed Sept. 6, 1945, at San Pedro bay, Philippine islands, in the crash of a plane in which he was serving as radio operator. A member of the air corps, he entered service in June, 1943, and had been overseas since February, 1944.
He was born Jan. 5, 1924, at Spring Canyon, a son of J.W. and Irene Blackley Simmons. He had been a resident of Spring Canyon all his life, graduating from Carbon county high school. He had studied radio and engineering at Utah State Agricultural college, and had received advanced instruction in electronics while in the army.
He was an eagle member of the Boy Scouts and a priest in the L D S church at the time of his death.
Surviving are his parents, Spring Canyon; three brothers, Joseph Floyd Simmons, Salt Lake City; Otis Parnell Simmons, Elko, Nev., and Melvin J. Simmons, Springville, and a sister, Donna Irene Simmons, Spring Canyon.
Lockhart post of the American Legion will conduct military rites.
CPL. DOYLE L. SIMMONS
HEBER--Graveside services for Cpl. Doyle L. Simmons, 21, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in Heber city cemetery by Grant B. Jensen, bishop of Storrs ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spring Canyon, Carbon county.
Cpl. Simmons was killed Sept. 6, 1945, at San Pedro bay, Philippine islands, in the crash of a plane in which he was serving as radio operator. A member of the air corps, he entered service in June, 1943, and had been overseas since February, 1944.
He was born Jan. 5, 1924, at Spring Canyon, a son of J.W. and Irene Blackley Simmons. He had been a resident of Spring Canyon all his life, graduating from Carbon county high school. He had studied radio and engineering at Utah State Agricultural college, and had received advanced instruction in electronics while in the army.
He was an eagle member of the Boy Scouts and a priest in the L D S church at the time of his death.
Surviving are his parents, Spring Canyon; three brothers, Joseph Floyd Simmons, Salt Lake City; Otis Parnell Simmons, Elko, Nev., and Melvin J. Simmons, Springville, and a sister, Donna Irene Simmons, Spring Canyon.
Lockhart post of the American Legion will conduct military rites.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948, PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN
CPL. DOYLE L. SIMMONS
HEBER--Graveside services for Cpl. Doyle L. Simmons, 21, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in Heber city cemetery by Grant B. Jensen, bishop of Storrs ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spring Canyon, Carbon county.
Cpl. Simmons was killed Sept. 6, 1945, at San Pedro bay, Philippine islands, in the crash of a plane in which he was serving as radio operator. A member of the air corps, he entered service in June, 1943, and had been overseas since February, 1944.
He was born Jan. 5, 1924, at Spring Canyon, a son of J.W. and Irene Blackley Simmons. He had been a resident of Spring Canyon all his life, graduating from Carbon county high school. He had studied radio and engineering at Utah State Agricultural college, and had received advanced instruction in electronics while in the army.
He was an eagle member of the Boy Scouts and a priest in the L D S church at the time of his death.
Surviving are his parents, Spring Canyon; three brothers, Joseph Floyd Simmons, Salt Lake City; Otis Parnell Simmons, Elko, Nev., and Melvin J. Simmons, Springville, and a sister, Donna Irene Simmons, Spring Canyon.
Lockhart post of the American Legion will conduct military rites.
CPL. DOYLE L. SIMMONS
HEBER--Graveside services for Cpl. Doyle L. Simmons, 21, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in Heber city cemetery by Grant B. Jensen, bishop of Storrs ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Spring Canyon, Carbon county.
Cpl. Simmons was killed Sept. 6, 1945, at San Pedro bay, Philippine islands, in the crash of a plane in which he was serving as radio operator. A member of the air corps, he entered service in June, 1943, and had been overseas since February, 1944.
He was born Jan. 5, 1924, at Spring Canyon, a son of J.W. and Irene Blackley Simmons. He had been a resident of Spring Canyon all his life, graduating from Carbon county high school. He had studied radio and engineering at Utah State Agricultural college, and had received advanced instruction in electronics while in the army.
He was an eagle member of the Boy Scouts and a priest in the L D S church at the time of his death.
Surviving are his parents, Spring Canyon; three brothers, Joseph Floyd Simmons, Salt Lake City; Otis Parnell Simmons, Elko, Nev., and Melvin J. Simmons, Springville, and a sister, Donna Irene Simmons, Spring Canyon.
Lockhart post of the American Legion will conduct military rites.
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