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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300570041-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: March 12, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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SALT LAKE CITY,UTAH
DESERET NEWS-
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MAR 1 2 15
18 8 DESERET NEWS, Friday, March 12, 196
r.'
1unera service were p
friday for Brig. Gen. H. Lynn
%stler, former asistant com-
manding general of the Utah
ith Infantry Reserve Division,
alt Lake City.
Gen. Ostler was killed instant-
in an auto-truck collision
' hursday morning near Eagle,
olo.
According to the Colorado
I ighway,: Patrol, the accident
ccnrredin clear weather. Gen.
suer apparently' dozed at the
heel of his car, crossing the
enter line into the path of an
phroaching truck and trailer.
Eagle is 90 miles west of Den-
er on Highway 6-24.
Gen. Ostler was en route to
.11 Lake City to attend the fun-
r. a] of an aunt, Mrs. Pauline
:healer Yard, 105 E. South
o nple.
I was working for the Cen-
d hr:elligence Agency in Den-
-I . ColFi "`"""--
Frig. Gen. Ostler was assist-
nt commander of the 96th Div!-
ion with units in Utah, Idaho,
'ashington, Arizona and Oregon
orn 1950 to 1960 when h~, re-
red.
A native of Salt Lake City, he
lt ?as commissioned a second
I eutenant
Brig. Gen. Ostler
. . . on way to S.L.
cers Reserve Corps, Sept. 17,
1932. He was promoted to bri-
gadier general in 1954.
He entered active duty Feb.
10, 1941. His assignments in
World War II included assist-
ant adjutant general Armored
force Training Center, Ft.
Knox, Ky., and the Western
e aujutant general,
quarters, 5th U.S. Army Euro
pean Theater of Operations; ad-1
jutant general, U.S. Forces
Austria, and Officer Reserve
Corps staff adviser to com-
manding general, 6th Army, j
Presidio, San Francisco, Calif. I
His decorations include the;
Legion of Merit, the Bronze'
Star, the Army. Commendations
Medal, the Order of the British,
Empire, the Medaille do la Re-
connaissance-of France and the
Order of the Crown of Italy.
He 'was born Aug. 8, 1903, a
son of Harry and Minerva May,
Margetts Ostler.
He graduated from LDS Highs
School and LDS Business Col-
lege. Following schooling het
joined his father in the Ostler)
Candy Company business.
He married Francis Preece in
1921 in the Salt Lako Temple.
He is survived by his widow; two.
daughters, Mrs. A. B. (Pauline)
Blakemore Jr., and Mrs. Marvin'
(Lynnae) Emery, Troth Salt
Lake City; five grandchildren;
three sisters and one brother;,
Mrs. George R. (Retta) Russell,'
Salt Lake City; Mrs. Lewis
(Florence) Ellsworth, Boise,;
Idaho; Mrs. L. K. (Darlene),
Krantz, Idaho Fall ,. Idaho;
Harry R., Sail Lake City. One
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