FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR NAPLES FATHER

NAPLES (Special) -- Funeral services were held on Thursday at 1:00 p.m. in the Naples chapel under the direction fo the Naples bishopric for James Karren, 47, whose death occurred on September 11 from concussion of the brain and other injuries sustained when he fell from a caffold while cleaning the ceiling at the Naples chapel.

The singing was rendered by a double mixed quartet composed of A. G. and Frank Goodrich, Mrs. J. N. Lybbert, Mrs. Clyde Chivers, Mrs. J. Wallace Johnson, Mrs. Clark Goodrich, J. N. Lybbert and Lynn Goodrich who sang "Sometime We'll Understand," "The Harvest Time," "In The Garden" and Lead Me Gently Home."

The speakers were Alvin Weeks, J. Wallace Johnson. President Archie Johnson and Bishop LaVell Manwaring.

The pallbearers were High Priests: Frank Merrell, Arthur Harrison, Fuller Merrell, Mark Cook, Charles Weist and Albert Henry.

The invocation was offered by A. G. Goodrich and the benediction by Clarence W. Palmer. Ther floral offerings were beautiful.

Interment was made in the Vernal Memorial Park under the direction of the Swain Funeral Home with Porter Goodrich dedicating the grave.

The deceased was born February 24, 1892, the son of John D. and Alice Cox Karren. He was active in civic and church affairs having been president of the 2nd Quorum of Elders of the Stake for several years and a second counselor to the High Priests Quorum to the last Ernest Eaton.

In 1913 he filled a mission in the Northern States.

Surviving are his widow Gladys Goodrich Karren, a son, Douglas, two daughters, Sybil and Geraldine, all of Vernal; also the following brothers and sisters: Hugh, Harold, Jacob and Andrew Karren, Mrs. John Watkins, Mrs. Henry (unreadable)

-Vernal Express, September 21, 1939, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

James Henry Karren, 47, died at 8 p.m. on September 11, 1939 in Valley Hospital in Vernal, Uintah County, Utah due to a fractured skull from a fall from a scaffold from the Naples Ward Chapel while he was working on the building.

He was born February 24, 1892 in Vernal, Utah to James Daniel Karren and Alice Hannah Cox Karren. He married Gladys Goodrich September 24, 1915 in Salt Lake City. Surviving him is his wife. His occupation was farmer.

Interment was made at the Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery. Swain Funeral Home handled the funeral arrangements.

-death certificate

Surviving him are his wife Gladys, three children, Sibyl Cook, Douglas D. Cook and Geraldine Cook. He was preceded in death by one son, Milton, who died in 1926.