EX-OZARKERS, 5 OTHERS DIE ENROUTE TO SON'S WEDDING


Marshfield (Special) - Funeral services for three former Webster County, residents will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in Barber-Edwards Chapel here with Lynn Hixon officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Cemetery. Killed Saturday in a fiery head on collision near Baker, Calif., were Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Cantrell, Pasadena, and their 21-year-old son, Jerry Ray. The Cantrells formerly lived on a farm near Marshfield. The crash claimed four other lives.


The Cantrells were headed for Las Vegas where Jerry Ray and his childhood sweetheart, Kathleen Alice Johnson 20, were to be married. Kathleen and the Cantrell youth were thrown to the highway where they died instantly as did all victims of the crash.
Also killed were three Las Vegas youths in the other car, which highway patrolmen said was going downgrade on the wrong side of divided Interstate 15. Two of the youths were burned beyond recognition. The wreck occurred about 4:30 a.m. some 40 miles west of the Nevada-California border.


Surviving Mr. and Mrs. Cantrell are two other sons, Carl Eugene, Orleans, France, and Donald Leroy, Crocker; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Proserpi, La Puente, Calif., Mrs. Margaret DePace, Glendora, Calif., and Mrs. Mirrom Gosinski, Altadena, Calif.; 20
grandchildren; a great-grandchild.


Mr. Cantrell also is survived by four brothers, Hubert, Waynesville, Denton and Everett, Niangua, and Elery, Tampa, Fla.; and three sisters, Mrs. Edith Waller, Downey, Calif., Mrs. Triffin Cantrell, Wilder, Ida., and Mrs. Julia Johns, Niangua. Other survivors of Mrs. Zula Pearl Cantrell, 62, are her father, Collins Cantrell, Springfield, three brothers, Hugh and Walter, Mansfield, and Earl Cantrell, Mountain Home, Ida.; and four sisters, Mrs. Velma Holt, Crocker, Mrs. Margaret Hicks, Springfield, Mrs. Fay Schultz, Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Chloe Hill, Mansfield.