The Region - News from Feb. 27, 1987

In a Santa Ana chapel, 50 people mourned the death of Ansel E. Young, 59, an accountant killed in an explosion last week in Laguna Hills. Some sheriff’s deputies have suggested that Young may have been killed as he tried to set a bomb under a car belonging to the mother of a longtime enemy. Harold Vincent of El Toro and Young were reportedly involved in a dispute over water rights in Oregon. But after the memorial service, relatives and friends of Young said they did not believe that Young set the bomb. “It’s not true,” said the Rev. Norman Versteeg of the Irvine Seventh-day Adventist Church, who led the service. He added, “None of the people I know think that he planted the bomb.” Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Dick Olson said it may take investigators three more weeks of studying bomb fragments to determine what happened.