NEPHI-A ground and air search involving some 50 men early Sunday found the body of a 54-year-old Murray man who had failed to return from a deer hunting trip in Bear Canyon about 15 miles east of Nephi.
ACCORDING TO A Nephi physician, the missing hunter, George H. Gray, 54, 316 Bonneview St., Murray, apparently had died of a heart attack some time Saturday.
His body was sighted lying face down in snow at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday by occupants of a Fish and Game Department plane. The plane's pilot radioed location of the body to ground parties led by Raymond Jackson, Juab County sheriff and Trooper Rex Hill, Utah Highway Patrol, who directed searchers to the site.
BODY OF THE victim was brought out by members of the Nephi Riding Club.
The search began Sunday at 8 a.m. after Mr. Gray's son-in-law, Douglas J. Johansen, 612 N. Fort Ln., Layton, with whom he had gone hunting Saturday, called Sheriff Jackson to report that Mr. Gray had not returned to their car at nightfall.
SOME 50 MEN including Nephi National Guard members, Nephi Fire Department, Sgt. E.C. Sherwood, of the Highway Patrol and other officers, friends and relatives, started from Bear Canyon forest camp. Mr. Gray was born July 4, 1906, in Salt Lake City, to John and Effie Thompson Gray. He married Marie Goff in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were later divorced.
HE THEN married Bernice Jacobs, Aug. 16, 1941, in Salt Lake City.
SURVIVING are his widow of Murray; his mother of Duchesne; sons and daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Johansen of Layton; Mrs. Fern Davis of Murray; Mrs. Bonnie Cambareri, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; brothers and sisters. Mrs. Gracia Olsen of Duchesne; Mrs. Pearl Keele, Price; Mrs. Emma Powell, Orem; Bud M. Gray and Mrs. Thorna Biles, both of Buffalo, N.Y.
Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, November 21, 1960
Page 15, 16
ACCORDING TO A Nephi physician, the missing hunter, George H. Gray, 54, 316 Bonneview St., Murray, apparently had died of a heart attack some time Saturday.
His body was sighted lying face down in snow at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday by occupants of a Fish and Game Department plane. The plane's pilot radioed location of the body to ground parties led by Raymond Jackson, Juab County sheriff and Trooper Rex Hill, Utah Highway Patrol, who directed searchers to the site.
BODY OF THE victim was brought out by members of the Nephi Riding Club.
The search began Sunday at 8 a.m. after Mr. Gray's son-in-law, Douglas J. Johansen, 612 N. Fort Ln., Layton, with whom he had gone hunting Saturday, called Sheriff Jackson to report that Mr. Gray had not returned to their car at nightfall.
SOME 50 MEN including Nephi National Guard members, Nephi Fire Department, Sgt. E.C. Sherwood, of the Highway Patrol and other officers, friends and relatives, started from Bear Canyon forest camp. Mr. Gray was born July 4, 1906, in Salt Lake City, to John and Effie Thompson Gray. He married Marie Goff in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were later divorced.
HE THEN married Bernice Jacobs, Aug. 16, 1941, in Salt Lake City.
SURVIVING are his widow of Murray; his mother of Duchesne; sons and daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Johansen of Layton; Mrs. Fern Davis of Murray; Mrs. Bonnie Cambareri, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; brothers and sisters. Mrs. Gracia Olsen of Duchesne; Mrs. Pearl Keele, Price; Mrs. Emma Powell, Orem; Bud M. Gray and Mrs. Thorna Biles, both of Buffalo, N.Y.
Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, November 21, 1960
Page 15, 16
NEPHI-A ground and air search involving some 50 men early Sunday found the body of a 54-year-old Murray man who had failed to return from a deer hunting trip in Bear Canyon about 15 miles east of Nephi.
ACCORDING TO A Nephi physician, the missing hunter, George H. Gray, 54, 316 Bonneview St., Murray, apparently had died of a heart attack some time Saturday.
His body was sighted lying face down in snow at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday by occupants of a Fish and Game Department plane. The plane's pilot radioed location of the body to ground parties led by Raymond Jackson, Juab County sheriff and Trooper Rex Hill, Utah Highway Patrol, who directed searchers to the site.
BODY OF THE victim was brought out by members of the Nephi Riding Club.
The search began Sunday at 8 a.m. after Mr. Gray's son-in-law, Douglas J. Johansen, 612 N. Fort Ln., Layton, with whom he had gone hunting Saturday, called Sheriff Jackson to report that Mr. Gray had not returned to their car at nightfall.
SOME 50 MEN including Nephi National Guard members, Nephi Fire Department, Sgt. E.C. Sherwood, of the Highway Patrol and other officers, friends and relatives, started from Bear Canyon forest camp. Mr. Gray was born July 4, 1906, in Salt Lake City, to John and Effie Thompson Gray. He married Marie Goff in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were later divorced.
HE THEN married Bernice Jacobs, Aug. 16, 1941, in Salt Lake City.
SURVIVING are his widow of Murray; his mother of Duchesne; sons and daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Johansen of Layton; Mrs. Fern Davis of Murray; Mrs. Bonnie Cambareri, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; brothers and sisters. Mrs. Gracia Olsen of Duchesne; Mrs. Pearl Keele, Price; Mrs. Emma Powell, Orem; Bud M. Gray and Mrs. Thorna Biles, both of Buffalo, N.Y.
Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, November 21, 1960
Page 15, 16
ACCORDING TO A Nephi physician, the missing hunter, George H. Gray, 54, 316 Bonneview St., Murray, apparently had died of a heart attack some time Saturday.
His body was sighted lying face down in snow at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday by occupants of a Fish and Game Department plane. The plane's pilot radioed location of the body to ground parties led by Raymond Jackson, Juab County sheriff and Trooper Rex Hill, Utah Highway Patrol, who directed searchers to the site.
BODY OF THE victim was brought out by members of the Nephi Riding Club.
The search began Sunday at 8 a.m. after Mr. Gray's son-in-law, Douglas J. Johansen, 612 N. Fort Ln., Layton, with whom he had gone hunting Saturday, called Sheriff Jackson to report that Mr. Gray had not returned to their car at nightfall.
SOME 50 MEN including Nephi National Guard members, Nephi Fire Department, Sgt. E.C. Sherwood, of the Highway Patrol and other officers, friends and relatives, started from Bear Canyon forest camp. Mr. Gray was born July 4, 1906, in Salt Lake City, to John and Effie Thompson Gray. He married Marie Goff in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were later divorced.
HE THEN married Bernice Jacobs, Aug. 16, 1941, in Salt Lake City.
SURVIVING are his widow of Murray; his mother of Duchesne; sons and daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Johansen of Layton; Mrs. Fern Davis of Murray; Mrs. Bonnie Cambareri, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; brothers and sisters. Mrs. Gracia Olsen of Duchesne; Mrs. Pearl Keele, Price; Mrs. Emma Powell, Orem; Bud M. Gray and Mrs. Thorna Biles, both of Buffalo, N.Y.
Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, November 21, 1960
Page 15, 16
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