STANLEY HAROLD VERNON (obituary from Milford News June 21, 1945)

Impressive funeral services were held this Thursday in the Milford LDS ward chapel for Jack E. Neely, his ten year old daughter, Mary Lou, and Stanley H. Vernon, victims of Milford’s latest tragedy––a tailspin crash of a small plane in which they were riding Monday evening. (Mr. Vernon was the pilot and co-owner of the plane.) Stanley Harold Vernon, a Union Pacific dispatcher at the time of his untimely death, was born in Oakley, Utah July 6, 1916. He graduated from Tooele high school in 1935, taking an active interest in Scouting and becoming assistant Scoutmaster the year following his graduation. He later graduated in 1937 from a course in television, taken at Kansas City, and had made (ham) radio and photo-developing a hobby and remunerative activity, taking a keen delight in making photo prints for boys in the armed services, especially those in Pacific areas ¬-for friends and strangers alike. He continued his interest in Scouting locally (in Milford, Utah) by serving as leader of a troop of Air Scouts and was also active as a sportsman, having been elected to the presidency of the Milford Wildlife Protective association at the recent annual meeting of the club. Joining the Milford Lions club at the time of its reactivation last November, he was serving in the capacity of first vice president of the new setup. He was married September 9, 1931 (correction-1936 in Nephi, Utah) to Evelyn Johnson of Silver City. First entering Union Pacific service as a telegraph operator in 1937, he later became a dispatcher and served at Las Vegas, Nevada, prior to coming to Milford April 10, 1942. “Stan” is survived by his widow, five-year old daughter, Linda Lee, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Vernon, and sister Bonnie, all of Milford; a brother, Weston, serving with an army searchlight battalion in New Guinea; and two grand-fathers, Joseph Vernon of Wanship and George G. Stevens of Los Angeles.