Police Officer/Marshall Alonzo Theodore Larsen, 40, Mt. Pleasant City Marshal, was shot and killed Monday in front of Colstrom and Sparks Tavern on Main Street, by an assailant he had just ejected from the establishment for disorderly conduct.
Alonzo Theadore Larsen, 40, was born July 23, 1905, in Mt. Pleasant, a son of Andrew and Christine Mateson Larsen.
He graduated from North Sanpete High School and had worked for a time at Wendover, Utah, and for Geneva Steel Plant, Provo.
He married Helen Jones in September, 1929, in Mt. Pleasant.
Survivors include his widow and his mother, both of Mt. Pleasant; four brothers, J. Farrel Larsen, Mt. Pleasant; Jay Raphael Larsen and James Berkeley Larsen, both of Shelley, Ida.; two sisters, Mrs. Ina I. Jones, Wendover, and Mrs. Blanche L. Roylance, Gunnison.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune - October 15-16, 1945
Marshal Larsen is memorialized at Panel: 15-E: 4 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Alonzo Theadore Larsen, 40, was born July 23, 1905, in Mt. Pleasant, a son of Andrew and Christine Mateson Larsen.
He graduated from North Sanpete High School and had worked for a time at Wendover, Utah, and for Geneva Steel Plant, Provo.
He married Helen Jones in September, 1929, in Mt. Pleasant.
Survivors include his widow and his mother, both of Mt. Pleasant; four brothers, J. Farrel Larsen, Mt. Pleasant; Jay Raphael Larsen and James Berkeley Larsen, both of Shelley, Ida.; two sisters, Mrs. Ina I. Jones, Wendover, and Mrs. Blanche L. Roylance, Gunnison.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune - October 15-16, 1945
Marshal Larsen is memorialized at Panel: 15-E: 4 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Police Officer/Marshall Alonzo Theodore Larsen, 40, Mt. Pleasant City Marshal, was shot and killed Monday in front of Colstrom and Sparks Tavern on Main Street, by an assailant he had just ejected from the establishment for disorderly conduct.
Alonzo Theadore Larsen, 40, was born July 23, 1905, in Mt. Pleasant, a son of Andrew and Christine Mateson Larsen.
He graduated from North Sanpete High School and had worked for a time at Wendover, Utah, and for Geneva Steel Plant, Provo.
He married Helen Jones in September, 1929, in Mt. Pleasant.
Survivors include his widow and his mother, both of Mt. Pleasant; four brothers, J. Farrel Larsen, Mt. Pleasant; Jay Raphael Larsen and James Berkeley Larsen, both of Shelley, Ida.; two sisters, Mrs. Ina I. Jones, Wendover, and Mrs. Blanche L. Roylance, Gunnison.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune - October 15-16, 1945
Marshal Larsen is memorialized at Panel: 15-E: 4 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Alonzo Theadore Larsen, 40, was born July 23, 1905, in Mt. Pleasant, a son of Andrew and Christine Mateson Larsen.
He graduated from North Sanpete High School and had worked for a time at Wendover, Utah, and for Geneva Steel Plant, Provo.
He married Helen Jones in September, 1929, in Mt. Pleasant.
Survivors include his widow and his mother, both of Mt. Pleasant; four brothers, J. Farrel Larsen, Mt. Pleasant; Jay Raphael Larsen and James Berkeley Larsen, both of Shelley, Ida.; two sisters, Mrs. Ina I. Jones, Wendover, and Mrs. Blanche L. Roylance, Gunnison.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune - October 15-16, 1945
Marshal Larsen is memorialized at Panel: 15-E: 4 on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Plaque above gravestone:
THAT WE MAY NEVER FORGET.
PEACE OFFICER
KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
LON T. LARSEN OCT. 15, 1945
MT. PLEASANT, UT
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