Walter Herbert Berrett

From The Ogden Standard-Examiner Newspaper, Thursday Evening, September 29, 1938, Page 7: MISHAP CLAIMS IDAHO FARMER - North Ogden Native Killed When Derrick Pole Falls. -- LINROSE, Idaho, September 29 -- William H Berrett, prominent farmer here, was killed instantly Wednesday when his skull was crushed by a falling derrick pole. The accident occurred at the ranch of Charles Sparrow, five miles southeast of Preston, and was witnessed by Sparrow, who was assisting Berrett.

He was born April 6, 1884, at North Ogden, Utah a son of Richard T. and Annie Tonne Berrett. He was married on June 20, 1906, in Salt Lake City, to Charlotte Jeanette Gibson of Ogden. H e was active in LDS church affairs and had been a member of the Linrose quorum of seventy.

Surviving are his widow; two sons and two daughters, Havor Berrett of Pocatello; Mrs. Janet Davis of Salt Lake City; and John R. and Marian Berrett of Linrose, and the following brother and sisters: Mrs. Edna Lyons of Logan; Mrs. Emily A Baylock of Ogden; Orson P. Berrett of Roy, Utah; Earl R. Berrett of Salt Lake City and Thomas F. Berrett of Ogden.

Ogden Standard- Examiner September 30, 1938 Page 8B -- WALTER H. BERRETT -- NORTH OGDEN, September 30 - Funeral services for Walter H. Berrett who was killed Wednesday in a hay derrick accident at Linrose, Idaho, will be held in the North Ogden L.D.S. ward chapel Sunday at two p.m. with Bishop D. Ariel Nash of the Linrose ward conducting. Friends may view the body at the home of Mr. Berrett's relatives in North Ogden Saturday and Sunday until time of services. Hendricks mortuary of Preston has charge of arrangements.

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