The Salt Lake Tribune Newspaper April 28, 1943
VERNON WINIFRED PIERCE
SPANISH FORK---Funeral services for Vernon Winifred Pierce, 36, employed as a hod carrier at the Geneva plant of the Columbia Steal plant, who died at 10:15 Monday morning at the Utah Valley hospital as the result of a fall sustained at a early hour the same morning, will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at the Roosevelt LDS chapel by the bishop of the ward. Friends may call at the Claudin funeral home at Spanish Fork until Thursday evening. Burial will be at Roosevelt.
Mr. Pierce was born at Giles, August 9, 1907, a son of Martin Riley and Harriet Ann Peterson Pierce. He was educated in the schools of Carbon county.
He was a member of the LDS church and a high priest at the time of his death. He spent most of his life at Roosevelt, moving to Spanish Fork a few months ago. He married Miss Thelma Davis at Price, June 6, 1928. They were married in the Manti LDS temple in July of 1930.
He is survived by his widow, his mother, three daughters and a son, Betty Jean, Joyce, Shirley and Ronald Pierce of Spanish Fork; the following brothers and sisters; Ernest Pierce of Boulder City, Nev.; Leonard Pierce of Payson, Claude Pierce of Price, Mrs. Etta Bacon of Roosevelt, Mrs. Syrilda Munson of Provo, Mrs. Teressa Johnson of Castle Gate, Mrs. Vena Wells and Mrs. Dora Powell of Wellington, Mrs. Ada Newburt of Diego, Cal., and Mrs. Elda Throckmorton of Spanish Fork.
