The Helena Independent Record
Monday, April 21, 1952
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ONE BODY RECOVERED OF THREE DROWNED IN FLATHEAD LAKE

Kalispell, April 21 - Searchers have recovered the body of John Morrow, 56-year-old rural mail carrier, one of three Kalispell fishermen who apparently drowned in nearby Flathead lake Saturday.
Sheriff Dick Walsh said the other two men believed drowned are Morrow's 23-year-old son, Elvin, and Morrow's nephew, Clarence Rhodes, about 24.
Darkness halted the search late yesterday after Morrow's body was found, but it was resumed at day-break today.
Walsh said the three men left here Saturday morning for the lake, about 15 miles away. Their families called Walsh when the fishermen failed to return home that night.
Their overturned boat was found near the mouth of the Flathead river, which empties into the north end of the 43-mile-long lake.
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The Daily Inter Lake
Sunday, April 27, 1952
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UNION BURIAL SERVICES HELD FOR DROWNING ACCIDENT VICTIMS

Funeral services for the three victims of the drowning accident last week were held Friday afternoon at the Waggener & Campbell chapel.
The Rev. O. D. Harris of the Central Chrisitan church and the Rev. W. P. Griffiths of the Episcopal church officiated and music was furnished by Clide and Bill Carr accompanied at the organ by Mrs. J. M. Carlson.
Burial of John and Elvin Morrow was made in the Conrad Memorial Cemetery while Clarence Rhodes was buried in the Spring Creek cemetery. Graveside military rites were accorded at both cemeteries by the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Those acting as pallberers for John Morrow were John McMillan, J. J. Tucker, Joe Basye, Emil Anderson, Fred Metcalf and Peter Lavelle....

JOHN MORROW
John David Morrow was born July 16, 1895, in Fort Benton, Mont., the son of Sarah Elizabeth Morrow and David Mathson Morrow. He came to Kalispell in 1905 at the age of 10 and attended school here. He later enlisted in Co. E, 20th Engineers, in World War I, and was a survivor of the ill-fated Tuscania.
John Morrow was married Dec. 17, 1922 to Clara Lavina Rhodes and to this union three children were born, Harold Wayne, the deceased Elvin LeRoy, and Mrs. Martha Bull.
Surviving him are his widow, one son, Harold, a daughter, Mrs. Ed Bull, all of Kalispell. There are also six grandchildren, two brothers and six sisters and numerous other relatives.