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Mormon Church Official Dies in Nevada Highway Accident; Others InjuredGOLDEN KIMBALL OF COUNCIL OF SEVENTIES IS VICTIMEarly Morning Crash Take* Place on Road Between Lovelock and FemleyOthers in Party Brought To Reno Hospital But Are Not Seriously HurtAn early morning automobile accident on the Nevada desert, about fifty miles east of here, resulted in the death today of eighty-five year old J. Golden Kimball or Salt Lake City, president of the First Council of the Seventies of the La ter-Day Saints (Mormon) Church and Injuries to three other persons, in-I eluding Kimball's wife, Jenny. BROUGHT TO HOSPITAL j Mrs. Kimball and the two other j occupants of their machine, Richard I Brown of San Francisco and Miss i Virginia Mitchell of Salt Lake City,| were brought to the Washoe General hospital here by the driver of a passing Grey round bus.Sheriff Jim Smith of Churchill county and Coroner Harold Bellinger of Fallon said the Kimball | machine, driven by Brown, skidded and crashed into an embankment as it approached a detour sign at high speed.Mrs. Kimball suffered lacerations and shock, Miss Mitchell was bruised and cut and an arm was broken. Brown, grandson of Kim-i ball, was released from the hospital after being treated for a forehead cut.PLAN INQUESTCoroner Bellinger said an Inquest | Into Kimball's death and plans for disposition of his body will be held i up until Mrs. Kimball and other occupants of the machine are able to leave the hospital.The party was en route to Salt Lake City at the time the accident occurred in the sparsely settled settled region about ten miles east of Springer's hot springs station. BORN IN 1853 SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 2 lt;#}-* J. Golden Kimball, one of the general authorities of the Later-Day Saints Church killed in an automobile accident near Fallon, Nev., was born June 9. 1853. and was eighty-five years old.He was president of the First Council of Seventies, the second group in authority in the Mormon Church outranked only by the Council cf Twelve.President Kimball was the son of Heber C. Kimball, an early day leader of the church. He filled a mission to the southern states in 1883 and in 1891 became president of the mission. He was ordained a
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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Fri, Sep 02, 1938
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