(Logandale, NV) - Funeral services are scheduled Monday at 11:00AM in the Logandale LDS Stake Center for Elder Jace Edwards Davis of Logandale who died last week while serving a mission in the Romania Bucharest Mission. He and his companion Elder McKay Choy Burrows of Highland, Utah died Friday, January 29 from an accidental natural gas asphyxiation, according to LDS church spokesman Scott Trotter. Elder Davis was serving as a district leader and second counselor in a branch presidency when he died.

Davis is the son of Larry and Donna Davis of Logandale. He was in the fourteenth month of his two year missionary service and expected to return home at the end of this year.

"Jace was a wonderful young man and he will be greatly missed," said LDS Logandale Stake President Matt Messer. "He was a strong and faithful missionary. I have spoken to his Mission President who said that Jace was doing a wonderful job in Romania."

Davis was a 2007 Moapa Valley High School graduate, valedictorian and editor of the yearbook. He showed his love for music by playing violin in the Chamber Orchestra, as well as the piano. He enjoyed sports and was Academic All-State in both baseball and tennis. After high school, he attended Brigham Young University Idaho for one year.

The LDS church has over 52,000 missionaries serving throughout the world. The Logandale Stake currently has 55 missionaries serving in the mission field.

Information from - Moapa Valley Progress and Las Vegas Review Journal.