From The Daily Herald (Provo, UT) - Friday, May 14, 1943:
Funeral arrangements were made today for Matilda Beth Calder, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H., "Ted" Calder of Route 2, Orem. She drowned Thursday afternoon in an irrigation ditch which flows through the family property.
According to investigating officers, the child had accompanied her mother to the barn across a small foot bridge which spans the steam. A few minutes later, the mother became aware the child was not in the barn, and began a frantic search.
Mrs. Otto Olsen and Mrs. Ray E. Loveless, two neighbors, found the child a few minutes later some 80 rods downstream. Resuscitation efforts by the Provo fire department were futile. The irrigation ditch is concrete lined and the steams flows at great speed. It is about six feet wide and two feet deep.
Matilda Beth was born February 22, 1941 in Orem, daughter of Edgar H. and Melba Vance Calder.
Surviving, beside the parents, are three brothers and three sisters, Vance Calder, serving on an LDS mission to the eastern states at Lynn, Massachusetts; Robert, David, June, and Thelma Mae Calder of Orem, and Mrs. Leo Hubbard of Provo; also her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John A. Vance of Orem.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sharon Ward Chapel with BishopJ. Clayton Watts presiding. Burial will be in the Orem City Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were made today for Matilda Beth Calder, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H., "Ted" Calder of Route 2, Orem. She drowned Thursday afternoon in an irrigation ditch which flows through the family property.
According to investigating officers, the child had accompanied her mother to the barn across a small foot bridge which spans the steam. A few minutes later, the mother became aware the child was not in the barn, and began a frantic search.
Mrs. Otto Olsen and Mrs. Ray E. Loveless, two neighbors, found the child a few minutes later some 80 rods downstream. Resuscitation efforts by the Provo fire department were futile. The irrigation ditch is concrete lined and the steams flows at great speed. It is about six feet wide and two feet deep.
Matilda Beth was born February 22, 1941 in Orem, daughter of Edgar H. and Melba Vance Calder.
Surviving, beside the parents, are three brothers and three sisters, Vance Calder, serving on an LDS mission to the eastern states at Lynn, Massachusetts; Robert, David, June, and Thelma Mae Calder of Orem, and Mrs. Leo Hubbard of Provo; also her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John A. Vance of Orem.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sharon Ward Chapel with BishopJ. Clayton Watts presiding. Burial will be in the Orem City Cemetery.
From The Daily Herald (Provo, UT) - Friday, May 14, 1943:
Funeral arrangements were made today for Matilda Beth Calder, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H., "Ted" Calder of Route 2, Orem. She drowned Thursday afternoon in an irrigation ditch which flows through the family property.
According to investigating officers, the child had accompanied her mother to the barn across a small foot bridge which spans the steam. A few minutes later, the mother became aware the child was not in the barn, and began a frantic search.
Mrs. Otto Olsen and Mrs. Ray E. Loveless, two neighbors, found the child a few minutes later some 80 rods downstream. Resuscitation efforts by the Provo fire department were futile. The irrigation ditch is concrete lined and the steams flows at great speed. It is about six feet wide and two feet deep.
Matilda Beth was born February 22, 1941 in Orem, daughter of Edgar H. and Melba Vance Calder.
Surviving, beside the parents, are three brothers and three sisters, Vance Calder, serving on an LDS mission to the eastern states at Lynn, Massachusetts; Robert, David, June, and Thelma Mae Calder of Orem, and Mrs. Leo Hubbard of Provo; also her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John A. Vance of Orem.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sharon Ward Chapel with BishopJ. Clayton Watts presiding. Burial will be in the Orem City Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were made today for Matilda Beth Calder, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H., "Ted" Calder of Route 2, Orem. She drowned Thursday afternoon in an irrigation ditch which flows through the family property.
According to investigating officers, the child had accompanied her mother to the barn across a small foot bridge which spans the steam. A few minutes later, the mother became aware the child was not in the barn, and began a frantic search.
Mrs. Otto Olsen and Mrs. Ray E. Loveless, two neighbors, found the child a few minutes later some 80 rods downstream. Resuscitation efforts by the Provo fire department were futile. The irrigation ditch is concrete lined and the steams flows at great speed. It is about six feet wide and two feet deep.
Matilda Beth was born February 22, 1941 in Orem, daughter of Edgar H. and Melba Vance Calder.
Surviving, beside the parents, are three brothers and three sisters, Vance Calder, serving on an LDS mission to the eastern states at Lynn, Massachusetts; Robert, David, June, and Thelma Mae Calder of Orem, and Mrs. Leo Hubbard of Provo; also her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John A. Vance of Orem.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sharon Ward Chapel with BishopJ. Clayton Watts presiding. Burial will be in the Orem City Cemetery.
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