Rela was 15y, 8m, 12d when she died at St. Mark's Hospital. She was a fatality of the school bus/train crash, which also claimed bus driver, Farrold A. Silcox,
B. H. Glazier
Jack Stevenson
Luke Peterson
Del Marcy
Ida V. Sundquist,
Lois A. Johnson,
Virginia Nelson,
Helen Lloyd,
Harold W. Sandstrom,
Dean L. Winward,
Kenneth Peterson,
Edna Rae Miller,
Naomi Webb and her brother
Wilbert Webb, their cousins
Rosa and Byard Larsen.
Rela and L. Duane Parkinson died later of their injuries.
******
The Ogden Standard-Examiner
Monday, December 5, 1938
page one
UTAH MOURNS AS 24TH BUS CRASH VICTIM CLAIMED
Fifth and Sixth of Mass Funeral Services are Held Today
Salt Lake City, Dec. 5 - Mourning central Utah parents returned today to the fifth and sixth of a series of funeral services for victims of the Jordan school bus-train accident whose number was increased to 24 with the death of a 15 year old girl.
Rela Beckstead of South Jordan, injured when a freight train crushed the bus in which she and 38 others were riding Thursday, died Sunday. Only a few hours before funeral services had been held for five of her neighbors and classmates of South Jordan.
In all, four services for 14 children were held Sunday and were attended by Govenor Henry H. Blood and high officials of the Latter-day Saints church.
TEXAS SENDS NOTE
They prompted messages of sympathy from persons throughout the nation, including one "which could originate nowhere else on earth in more sincerity" - from mothers and fathers of the more than 450 school children who perished in the New London, Texas school explosion in March, 1937.
Services today were for eight children and bus driver Farrold H. Silcox, who drove his school bus along an out-of-way country road directly in the path of the Denver and Rio Grande Western's fast freight, the "Flying Ute".
As speakers who eulogized the dead students also prayed for the recovery of seven children still confined in hospitals, attaches said that only one remained in "poor" condition.
Dr. C. N. Jensen, Jordan district superintendent, termed the message of sympathy from New London parents as "from those who really know".
Blood Attends
Governor Blood offered the parents the heartfelt sympathy of the entire state of Utah. He attended the afternoon service at Riverton junior high school for five children of South Jordan. A morning service at Riverton was held for six children of Bluffdale. Services also were held at nearby Crescent Latter-day Saints church ward chapel and the Grandview L.D.S. chapel for three children.
Both services today were at Riverton, in the morning for three members of the L.D.S. Second ward and in the afternoon for six members of the Riverton L.D.S. First ward. Services have not been arranged for Rela Beckstead.
10-Second Silence
Tribute to the dead in the nation's worst traffic accident was not confined, however, to the disaster-saddened communities most intimately touched by the tragedy. Ten-second silence periods were observed in many churches throughout the state. A similar silent period was asked for today, when students of all schools in the Jordan district, except Jordan and Riverton, gathered at the school nearest their home for the momentary tribute.
B. H. Glazier
Jack Stevenson
Luke Peterson
Del Marcy
Ida V. Sundquist,
Lois A. Johnson,
Virginia Nelson,
Helen Lloyd,
Harold W. Sandstrom,
Dean L. Winward,
Kenneth Peterson,
Edna Rae Miller,
Naomi Webb and her brother
Wilbert Webb, their cousins
Rosa and Byard Larsen.
Rela and L. Duane Parkinson died later of their injuries.
******
The Ogden Standard-Examiner
Monday, December 5, 1938
page one
UTAH MOURNS AS 24TH BUS CRASH VICTIM CLAIMED
Fifth and Sixth of Mass Funeral Services are Held Today
Salt Lake City, Dec. 5 - Mourning central Utah parents returned today to the fifth and sixth of a series of funeral services for victims of the Jordan school bus-train accident whose number was increased to 24 with the death of a 15 year old girl.
Rela Beckstead of South Jordan, injured when a freight train crushed the bus in which she and 38 others were riding Thursday, died Sunday. Only a few hours before funeral services had been held for five of her neighbors and classmates of South Jordan.
In all, four services for 14 children were held Sunday and were attended by Govenor Henry H. Blood and high officials of the Latter-day Saints church.
TEXAS SENDS NOTE
They prompted messages of sympathy from persons throughout the nation, including one "which could originate nowhere else on earth in more sincerity" - from mothers and fathers of the more than 450 school children who perished in the New London, Texas school explosion in March, 1937.
Services today were for eight children and bus driver Farrold H. Silcox, who drove his school bus along an out-of-way country road directly in the path of the Denver and Rio Grande Western's fast freight, the "Flying Ute".
As speakers who eulogized the dead students also prayed for the recovery of seven children still confined in hospitals, attaches said that only one remained in "poor" condition.
Dr. C. N. Jensen, Jordan district superintendent, termed the message of sympathy from New London parents as "from those who really know".
Blood Attends
Governor Blood offered the parents the heartfelt sympathy of the entire state of Utah. He attended the afternoon service at Riverton junior high school for five children of South Jordan. A morning service at Riverton was held for six children of Bluffdale. Services also were held at nearby Crescent Latter-day Saints church ward chapel and the Grandview L.D.S. chapel for three children.
Both services today were at Riverton, in the morning for three members of the L.D.S. Second ward and in the afternoon for six members of the Riverton L.D.S. First ward. Services have not been arranged for Rela Beckstead.
10-Second Silence
Tribute to the dead in the nation's worst traffic accident was not confined, however, to the disaster-saddened communities most intimately touched by the tragedy. Ten-second silence periods were observed in many churches throughout the state. A similar silent period was asked for today, when students of all schools in the Jordan district, except Jordan and Riverton, gathered at the school nearest their home for the momentary tribute.
Rela was 15y, 8m, 12d when she died at St. Mark's Hospital. She was a fatality of the school bus/train crash, which also claimed bus driver, Farrold A. Silcox,
B. H. Glazier
Jack Stevenson
Luke Peterson
Del Marcy
Ida V. Sundquist,
Lois A. Johnson,
Virginia Nelson,
Helen Lloyd,
Harold W. Sandstrom,
Dean L. Winward,
Kenneth Peterson,
Edna Rae Miller,
Naomi Webb and her brother
Wilbert Webb, their cousins
Rosa and Byard Larsen.
Rela and L. Duane Parkinson died later of their injuries.
******
The Ogden Standard-Examiner
Monday, December 5, 1938
page one
UTAH MOURNS AS 24TH BUS CRASH VICTIM CLAIMED
Fifth and Sixth of Mass Funeral Services are Held Today
Salt Lake City, Dec. 5 - Mourning central Utah parents returned today to the fifth and sixth of a series of funeral services for victims of the Jordan school bus-train accident whose number was increased to 24 with the death of a 15 year old girl.
Rela Beckstead of South Jordan, injured when a freight train crushed the bus in which she and 38 others were riding Thursday, died Sunday. Only a few hours before funeral services had been held for five of her neighbors and classmates of South Jordan.
In all, four services for 14 children were held Sunday and were attended by Govenor Henry H. Blood and high officials of the Latter-day Saints church.
TEXAS SENDS NOTE
They prompted messages of sympathy from persons throughout the nation, including one "which could originate nowhere else on earth in more sincerity" - from mothers and fathers of the more than 450 school children who perished in the New London, Texas school explosion in March, 1937.
Services today were for eight children and bus driver Farrold H. Silcox, who drove his school bus along an out-of-way country road directly in the path of the Denver and Rio Grande Western's fast freight, the "Flying Ute".
As speakers who eulogized the dead students also prayed for the recovery of seven children still confined in hospitals, attaches said that only one remained in "poor" condition.
Dr. C. N. Jensen, Jordan district superintendent, termed the message of sympathy from New London parents as "from those who really know".
Blood Attends
Governor Blood offered the parents the heartfelt sympathy of the entire state of Utah. He attended the afternoon service at Riverton junior high school for five children of South Jordan. A morning service at Riverton was held for six children of Bluffdale. Services also were held at nearby Crescent Latter-day Saints church ward chapel and the Grandview L.D.S. chapel for three children.
Both services today were at Riverton, in the morning for three members of the L.D.S. Second ward and in the afternoon for six members of the Riverton L.D.S. First ward. Services have not been arranged for Rela Beckstead.
10-Second Silence
Tribute to the dead in the nation's worst traffic accident was not confined, however, to the disaster-saddened communities most intimately touched by the tragedy. Ten-second silence periods were observed in many churches throughout the state. A similar silent period was asked for today, when students of all schools in the Jordan district, except Jordan and Riverton, gathered at the school nearest their home for the momentary tribute.
B. H. Glazier
Jack Stevenson
Luke Peterson
Del Marcy
Ida V. Sundquist,
Lois A. Johnson,
Virginia Nelson,
Helen Lloyd,
Harold W. Sandstrom,
Dean L. Winward,
Kenneth Peterson,
Edna Rae Miller,
Naomi Webb and her brother
Wilbert Webb, their cousins
Rosa and Byard Larsen.
Rela and L. Duane Parkinson died later of their injuries.
******
The Ogden Standard-Examiner
Monday, December 5, 1938
page one
UTAH MOURNS AS 24TH BUS CRASH VICTIM CLAIMED
Fifth and Sixth of Mass Funeral Services are Held Today
Salt Lake City, Dec. 5 - Mourning central Utah parents returned today to the fifth and sixth of a series of funeral services for victims of the Jordan school bus-train accident whose number was increased to 24 with the death of a 15 year old girl.
Rela Beckstead of South Jordan, injured when a freight train crushed the bus in which she and 38 others were riding Thursday, died Sunday. Only a few hours before funeral services had been held for five of her neighbors and classmates of South Jordan.
In all, four services for 14 children were held Sunday and were attended by Govenor Henry H. Blood and high officials of the Latter-day Saints church.
TEXAS SENDS NOTE
They prompted messages of sympathy from persons throughout the nation, including one "which could originate nowhere else on earth in more sincerity" - from mothers and fathers of the more than 450 school children who perished in the New London, Texas school explosion in March, 1937.
Services today were for eight children and bus driver Farrold H. Silcox, who drove his school bus along an out-of-way country road directly in the path of the Denver and Rio Grande Western's fast freight, the "Flying Ute".
As speakers who eulogized the dead students also prayed for the recovery of seven children still confined in hospitals, attaches said that only one remained in "poor" condition.
Dr. C. N. Jensen, Jordan district superintendent, termed the message of sympathy from New London parents as "from those who really know".
Blood Attends
Governor Blood offered the parents the heartfelt sympathy of the entire state of Utah. He attended the afternoon service at Riverton junior high school for five children of South Jordan. A morning service at Riverton was held for six children of Bluffdale. Services also were held at nearby Crescent Latter-day Saints church ward chapel and the Grandview L.D.S. chapel for three children.
Both services today were at Riverton, in the morning for three members of the L.D.S. Second ward and in the afternoon for six members of the Riverton L.D.S. First ward. Services have not been arranged for Rela Beckstead.
10-Second Silence
Tribute to the dead in the nation's worst traffic accident was not confined, however, to the disaster-saddened communities most intimately touched by the tragedy. Ten-second silence periods were observed in many churches throughout the state. A similar silent period was asked for today, when students of all schools in the Jordan district, except Jordan and Riverton, gathered at the school nearest their home for the momentary tribute.
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