13 Oct 1919 – 21 Feb 1939
2nd Great-Grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Great-Grandson of Louis Phillip Cardon and Susette Stalé
Grandson of Joseph Samuel Cardon and Selenia Mesenile Walker
Son of LeRoy Phillip Cardon and Margetta Adelaide Call
Second Victim Of CCC Tent Fire Dies
Burns Claim Life of S. L. Enrollee; Others Improve
The second of five C C C enrollees who were trapped in a flaming tent near Grantsville died Tuesday at 10:20 p. m. at Fort Douglas hospital.
The victim, Joy G. Cardon, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy P. Cardon of 429 Second East street, died only a few hours after funeral services were conducted for the tragedy’s first victim, Carl Emil Yensen, 24.
Young Cardon had been in critical condition since early Wednesday, when a gasoline explosion at South Willow C C C camp, in the Wasatch national forest about eight miles west of Grantsville, ignited the small tent and trapped him and his companions,
Rites Conducted
Yensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay N. Yensen of 3111 Nineteenth East street, died Sunday at 4 p. m. at Fort Douglas hospital, and funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1445 South State street by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel J. Miller, post chaplain. Burial was in Wasatch Lawn memorial park.
Meanwhile, the three others burned in the blaze were reported in fair condition at the post hospital. They are Mathew C. Hutchings, 19, of 135 Seventh East street; Melvin W. Garfield, 19, of 431 North Third West street, and Harold Schouten, 18, of 857 West Seventh South street.
The five were rushed to the hospital after a dipper of gasoline tossed into a wood stove by one of them caused an explosion which blocked escape from the tent Wednesday at 6 a. m. They were brought to Salt Lake City in a C C C truck after other enrollees at the camp pulled them from the flaming shelter.
Born in Bountiful
Young Cardon was born in Bountiful, October 13, 1917, but had lived in Salt Lake City since early childhood. He attended Lincoln lower division high school here, and for the past three years had been a member of the C C C.
Surviving are his parents; four brothers, Junius Welburn Cardon of Salt Lake City, LeRoy Willard Cardon of Tooele, Marvin Cardon of Santa Monica, Cal., and Woodrow Wilson Cardon of Los Angeles; three sisters, Mrs. Belva Call and Mrs. Addie Fae Hammond of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Lorita Dymock of Clover, Utah, and two grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Call of Salt Lake City.
-Published in The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), Wednesday, February 22, 1939, page 22
An Insight to Joy Guen Cardon
by Jeffrey L. Call
Joy was my mother Belva’s favorite Brother (Not Sister…brother with a different name). He was a very bright and loving boy that buffered my Mom against the older brothers like Marvin and Junious. Those two took the only Doll my mother had as a child and burned it at the stake. Mom was close to the Indians in their area around Ophir, Utah. She told her brothers that they would burn them at the stake as revenge. Joy had to help her escape to her favorite meadow in the Mountains and hid pieces of the burned doll in their beds as a reminder. Marvin and Junious jumped at shadows for weeks.
Joy was working at a Tennessee Valley Project in Salt Lake Vally. Someone tipped over a pot-Bellied stove in the tent and Joy did not make it out of the tent before he was fatally burned. My Mother told me she was heartbroken and cried continuously for three days. I have often imagined the reunion that occurred after Mom’s passing. She never told any of the stories about him, without shedding tears, till the day she died. Give them all a hug for me Mom .
Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, Plot: Gilcrest 707-5-W.
