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Rex Douglass Wirthlin

Birth: 3 Nov 1919
USA
Death: 11 Mar 1962 (aged 42)
Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial: Santaquin City Cemetery

Santaquin, Utah County, Utah, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.9697279, Longitude: -111.7818313
Memorial ID: 12912821 View Source

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William Henry Wirthlin

1878–1946
Mary Elizabeth Douglass Wirthlin

1880–1974

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Elva Louise Whimpy Wirthlin

1921–1962 (m. 1939)

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Mamie Wirthlin

1905–1990
Genevieve Wirthlin Sanderson

1907–2003
Douglass Wirthlin

1911–2004
Bill Douglass Wirthlin

1922–1989

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Star Valley Independent - May 17, 1962 Announcement of the funeral services for Rex and Elva Wirthlin. Elva's body was found two years later in 1964 and there are some reports that a suitcase was found but these haven't been verified. Rex and the plane they went down in were never found. Rex sold his Ford dealership in Afton prior to moving to Jerome. The couple had family living in the Eureka/Santaquin areas of Utah and their burial location is in Santaquin, Utah. The Ford location in Afton still exists, but is now a Honda shop right on Main Street. This is a scan of the newspaper my father saved. May 17, 1962 was the Star Valley High School graduation and my father was on the cover. It may have been this article that caused him to write about the Wirthlin's in the letter to his mother. The Wirthlin's were in the same ward (church) as my father's family. Mrs. Wirthlin attended book club with my grandmother, Sybil Lee Dabel.

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A letter written by Merle LaMar Walker, Jr. "LaMar" on March 24, 1962. You will see that the 12th paragraph speaks of the Wirthlin family. After doing research, I found that Rex and his wife were lost in single engine plane trip piloted by Rex from Twin Falls to Las Vegas. At the time, my father, LaMar, lived in Afton, Wyoming as did the Wirthlins. I assume by the comment he made that he knew the Wirthlins. A report in the Nevada State Journal, Oct. 21, 1964 states that Mrs. Wirthlin's body was found on Carrington Island near the Great Salt Lake. She was identified and the remainder of the wreckage, including her husband were assumed to be in the area but eroded by salt, so were never searched for after this. The body of Mr. Wirthlin was never found. Maybe it is just me, but I find this puzzling. The body of Mrs. Wirthlin was found to have multiple, serious compound fractures consistent with falling from an airplane.

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