A family and community are mourning the loss of the father and son, whose bodies were found over the weekend.

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John Hollenhorst reports
(Oct. 23)--

The culprit was a camp-lantern or space heater. Possibly both.

The victims: a father and son who apparently excelled in their daily lives and whose death left family and friends groping for answers.

Tears. Puzzlement, outside the Parry family's home in Draper.

BOB SHOBER/FAMILY FRIEND: "THIS FAMILY IS VERY TIGHT. THE SUPPORT GROUP HERE IS JUST PHENOMENAL."

They came to grieve... for Bruce Parry and his son Aaron, two people who enjoyed life together and died together inside the camper shell of a truck.

They were on a deer hunting and camping trip in the chilly high-country of Sanpete County, their bodies found Sunday morning by family members.

BOB SHOBER/FAMILY FRIEND: "THEY ARE VERY STRONG. THEY ARE. BUT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH A VERY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE RIGHT NOW."

A lifelong friend says Bruce was a gentleman's gentleman. He excelled in sports as a young man, he's number 24, and as an adult excelled as salesman, husband, father.

Fifteen-year-old Aaron is called a "clone" of his Dad. The two worked together at sports. Aaron earned a varsity letter, as a freshman, just last Thursday.

BOB SHOBER/FAMILY FRIEND: "EVERYONE THAT KNOWS THEM TRIES TO LIVE TO THEIR STANDARD. I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO EXPLAIN THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THEY ARE OTHER THAN THAT RIGHT THERE."

But something went wrong inside the camper shell. Father and son died from inhaling carbon monoxide, evidently from a lantern and space heater.

Both were out of fuel by the time the bodies were discovered. It's not known if they were malfunctioning.

Family and friends are puzzled.

BOB SHOBER/FAMILY FRIEND: "I'VE HUNTED, I'VE CAMPED, I'VE DONE A LOT OF THINGS WITH BRUCE. AND HE IS PROBABLY THE MOST SAFETY CONSCIOUS PERSON I KNOW."

Bruce Parry left behind a widow and Aaron's three older sisters.

BOB SHOBER/FAMILY FRIEND: "BRUCE AND AARON ARE SUPERMEN IN MY LIFE. AND SUPERMAN'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE."

Sadly, such deaths are not especially rare. About 40 people a year die in Utah from carbon-monoxide.

The Parry family is hoping others will learn a sense of caution from their family tragedy.