Funeral services conducted in Provo Tabernacle for five Pleasant View explorere scouts, 1963.

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Funeral services conducted in Provo Tabernacle for five Pleasant View explorere scouts, 1963.

Typescript made from the included sound tape. An accident took the lives of thirteen Boy Scouts and their leaders in Southern Utah in 1963. Five of the victims were members of the Pleasant View Ward: Randy Wayne Miller, Gary Lynn Rasmussen, Joseph William Erickson, Gary Lynn Christensen, and Lynn Louis Merrell. Their funeral was held on 14 June 1963. The speakers included Ben E. Lewis and Reid Bankhead.

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Free, Lorymore

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Bishop of the Mormon Church for the Plesant View Ward of the Sharon East Stake at Provo, Utah who officiated at the funeral. From the description of Funeral services conducted in Provo Tabernacle for five Pleasant View explorere scouts, 1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435491 Lorymore Free (1916-2006) was a prospector and geologist in Nevada and Utah. Lorymore Free was born August 11, 1916, in Newhouse, Utah, to Wenlock Ammon and Rachel Dibley...

Bankhead, Reid E. (Reid Elwood), 1919-

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Lewis, Ben E. (Ben Elden), 1913-2005

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University Vice President 1950 to 1965. From the description of Records, 1950-1974. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 60658092 Brigham Young University vice-president. From the description of Ben E. Lewis oral history interview, Oct. 18-Nov. 17, 1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367478609 Latter-day Saint missionary in Northern States Mission, 1934-1936; student at Brigham Young University, 1936-1940; executive vice-president of BYU and ...