Mark Hislop Laid To Rest In Maeser Friday. Many Paid Tribute to Young Man Who Was Killed Saturday, March 29, in Snow Slide in Provo Canyon.
(From our Maeser Correspondent) Impressive funeral services were held Friday at 2:00 o'clock in the Maeser Ward Chapel for Mark Hislop, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hislop, who gave his life in an attempt to help clear the Denver and Rio Grande train tracks of snow piled up in a snow slide.
The house was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives. Bishop Sylvannus Collett officiated. The casket of the departed was a complete bank of beautiful flowers from the many devoted friends and admirers.
Music was furnished by the Maeser Ward Choir, rendering the following numbers: "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go, " Unanswered Yet," and as a closing number "I Need Thee Every Hour." Mima Bavis sang a vocal solo, "Face To Face."
The speakers were John L. McConkie, Thomas Bingham, H. Walter Woolley and President Wallace Calder who told the of the honorable and faithful life of the deceased's parents and paid high tribute to the departed. O.D. Allen offered the opening prayer and Thomas Caldwell pronounced the benediction.
Interment was made in the Vernal Cemetery with Joseph P. Hacking dedicating the grave. A large funeral procession attended the remains to the last resting place.
Boyhood chums of Mr. Hislop acted as pallbearers: Milton Hacking, Tom Timothy, Amasa Caldwell, Lindsay Oaks, Harvey and Harold McKenn. Besides the floral offering from the many Vernal friends and relatives, magnificient pieces were sent from Provo and other places.
Mark Hislop was born May 3, 1902 in Maeser Ward, the son of George W.Bingham and Phoebe Bingham Hislop. He grew to manhood in Maeser and about a year ago went to Provo and found employment in the steel foundry. The 16th of August, 1923, he married Mabel Freestone, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Freestone of Vernal. About three weeks ago the foundry closed and Friday, the day of the first snow slide in Provo Canyon, Mr. Hislop accepted employment with the D. and R.G. Railroad Company. When he went to the canyon on Saturday morning it was his first day's work on his new job. The young man had only been on the scene about an hour and one-half when the second avalanche came and caught them.
Besides his widow, mother and father, Mr. Hislop leaves the following brothers and sisters to mourn his untimely death, George T. Hislop of Tonopah, Nevada; Dave, Warren, Mrs. Nellie Hacking and Mrs. Jessie Thomas of Vernal, all of whom attended the funeral. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Vernal Express, April 11, 1924
(From our Maeser Correspondent) Impressive funeral services were held Friday at 2:00 o'clock in the Maeser Ward Chapel for Mark Hislop, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hislop, who gave his life in an attempt to help clear the Denver and Rio Grande train tracks of snow piled up in a snow slide.
The house was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives. Bishop Sylvannus Collett officiated. The casket of the departed was a complete bank of beautiful flowers from the many devoted friends and admirers.
Music was furnished by the Maeser Ward Choir, rendering the following numbers: "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go, " Unanswered Yet," and as a closing number "I Need Thee Every Hour." Mima Bavis sang a vocal solo, "Face To Face."
The speakers were John L. McConkie, Thomas Bingham, H. Walter Woolley and President Wallace Calder who told the of the honorable and faithful life of the deceased's parents and paid high tribute to the departed. O.D. Allen offered the opening prayer and Thomas Caldwell pronounced the benediction.
Interment was made in the Vernal Cemetery with Joseph P. Hacking dedicating the grave. A large funeral procession attended the remains to the last resting place.
Boyhood chums of Mr. Hislop acted as pallbearers: Milton Hacking, Tom Timothy, Amasa Caldwell, Lindsay Oaks, Harvey and Harold McKenn. Besides the floral offering from the many Vernal friends and relatives, magnificient pieces were sent from Provo and other places.
Mark Hislop was born May 3, 1902 in Maeser Ward, the son of George W.Bingham and Phoebe Bingham Hislop. He grew to manhood in Maeser and about a year ago went to Provo and found employment in the steel foundry. The 16th of August, 1923, he married Mabel Freestone, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Freestone of Vernal. About three weeks ago the foundry closed and Friday, the day of the first snow slide in Provo Canyon, Mr. Hislop accepted employment with the D. and R.G. Railroad Company. When he went to the canyon on Saturday morning it was his first day's work on his new job. The young man had only been on the scene about an hour and one-half when the second avalanche came and caught them.
Besides his widow, mother and father, Mr. Hislop leaves the following brothers and sisters to mourn his untimely death, George T. Hislop of Tonopah, Nevada; Dave, Warren, Mrs. Nellie Hacking and Mrs. Jessie Thomas of Vernal, all of whom attended the funeral. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Vernal Express, April 11, 1924
Mark Hislop Laid To Rest In Maeser Friday. Many Paid Tribute to Young Man Who Was Killed Saturday, March 29, in Snow Slide in Provo Canyon.
(From our Maeser Correspondent) Impressive funeral services were held Friday at 2:00 o'clock in the Maeser Ward Chapel for Mark Hislop, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hislop, who gave his life in an attempt to help clear the Denver and Rio Grande train tracks of snow piled up in a snow slide.
The house was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives. Bishop Sylvannus Collett officiated. The casket of the departed was a complete bank of beautiful flowers from the many devoted friends and admirers.
Music was furnished by the Maeser Ward Choir, rendering the following numbers: "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go, " Unanswered Yet," and as a closing number "I Need Thee Every Hour." Mima Bavis sang a vocal solo, "Face To Face."
The speakers were John L. McConkie, Thomas Bingham, H. Walter Woolley and President Wallace Calder who told the of the honorable and faithful life of the deceased's parents and paid high tribute to the departed. O.D. Allen offered the opening prayer and Thomas Caldwell pronounced the benediction.
Interment was made in the Vernal Cemetery with Joseph P. Hacking dedicating the grave. A large funeral procession attended the remains to the last resting place.
Boyhood chums of Mr. Hislop acted as pallbearers: Milton Hacking, Tom Timothy, Amasa Caldwell, Lindsay Oaks, Harvey and Harold McKenn. Besides the floral offering from the many Vernal friends and relatives, magnificient pieces were sent from Provo and other places.
Mark Hislop was born May 3, 1902 in Maeser Ward, the son of George W.Bingham and Phoebe Bingham Hislop. He grew to manhood in Maeser and about a year ago went to Provo and found employment in the steel foundry. The 16th of August, 1923, he married Mabel Freestone, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Freestone of Vernal. About three weeks ago the foundry closed and Friday, the day of the first snow slide in Provo Canyon, Mr. Hislop accepted employment with the D. and R.G. Railroad Company. When he went to the canyon on Saturday morning it was his first day's work on his new job. The young man had only been on the scene about an hour and one-half when the second avalanche came and caught them.
Besides his widow, mother and father, Mr. Hislop leaves the following brothers and sisters to mourn his untimely death, George T. Hislop of Tonopah, Nevada; Dave, Warren, Mrs. Nellie Hacking and Mrs. Jessie Thomas of Vernal, all of whom attended the funeral. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Vernal Express, April 11, 1924
(From our Maeser Correspondent) Impressive funeral services were held Friday at 2:00 o'clock in the Maeser Ward Chapel for Mark Hislop, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hislop, who gave his life in an attempt to help clear the Denver and Rio Grande train tracks of snow piled up in a snow slide.
The house was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives. Bishop Sylvannus Collett officiated. The casket of the departed was a complete bank of beautiful flowers from the many devoted friends and admirers.
Music was furnished by the Maeser Ward Choir, rendering the following numbers: "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go, " Unanswered Yet," and as a closing number "I Need Thee Every Hour." Mima Bavis sang a vocal solo, "Face To Face."
The speakers were John L. McConkie, Thomas Bingham, H. Walter Woolley and President Wallace Calder who told the of the honorable and faithful life of the deceased's parents and paid high tribute to the departed. O.D. Allen offered the opening prayer and Thomas Caldwell pronounced the benediction.
Interment was made in the Vernal Cemetery with Joseph P. Hacking dedicating the grave. A large funeral procession attended the remains to the last resting place.
Boyhood chums of Mr. Hislop acted as pallbearers: Milton Hacking, Tom Timothy, Amasa Caldwell, Lindsay Oaks, Harvey and Harold McKenn. Besides the floral offering from the many Vernal friends and relatives, magnificient pieces were sent from Provo and other places.
Mark Hislop was born May 3, 1902 in Maeser Ward, the son of George W.Bingham and Phoebe Bingham Hislop. He grew to manhood in Maeser and about a year ago went to Provo and found employment in the steel foundry. The 16th of August, 1923, he married Mabel Freestone, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Freestone of Vernal. About three weeks ago the foundry closed and Friday, the day of the first snow slide in Provo Canyon, Mr. Hislop accepted employment with the D. and R.G. Railroad Company. When he went to the canyon on Saturday morning it was his first day's work on his new job. The young man had only been on the scene about an hour and one-half when the second avalanche came and caught them.
Besides his widow, mother and father, Mr. Hislop leaves the following brothers and sisters to mourn his untimely death, George T. Hislop of Tonopah, Nevada; Dave, Warren, Mrs. Nellie Hacking and Mrs. Jessie Thomas of Vernal, all of whom attended the funeral. Two sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.
Vernal Express, April 11, 1924
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