Clarence Reed
Burbank
News Examiner, Thursday, 2 June 1938,
page 1
The body of Reed Burbank, sixteen month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Burbank, was recovered from a Montpelier irrigation canal at the conclusion of a two hour search, after his disappearance from home last Friday morning. The child had been staying at the home of his mother's sister, Mrs. Bruce Beck, and was playing in the yard at their home at 8:30. Shortly after the child disappeared.
Officers and volunteers started to search the canal, which runs at the back of the Beck residence, when the alarm was turned in and the body was recovered a quarter of a mile north of Montpelier cemetery, nearly two miles from the scene of the disappearance at approximately 10:30. When the child disappeared his mother was recovering from an appendectomy at the Bear Lake Hospital.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the chapel in Bennington at one pm and the following ritual was in order: opening song by Bennington choir "Beautiful Land"; invocation W W Clark; song "Your Sweet Little Rosebud" choir; speakers Arthur Crane, Conover Wright; organ solo, Mrs. Sam Hall; remarks Charles Collett; closing song "Thy Will Be Done" choir; benediction Sam Hall.
Interment was made in the cemetery in Bennington and the graveside dedication was offered by William Lindsay.