Uncle Finds Boy's Body After 6-Day Search Sunday, June 29, 2002   BY STEPHEN HUNT THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE     A week after 4-year-old Simon Kofford wandered from a family picnic and fell into Little Cottonwood Creek, the boy's uncle discovered the boy's body and his father pulled it from the icy, rushing water.     Recovering Simon's body Saturday afternoon was "a great relief," said the victim's grandmother, Marilyn Kofford.     And it was "a blessing," she said, that Greg Kofford was there to bring his son out of the water.     "He's beat himself up several times because he wasn't right there" when Simon fell in, Marilyn Kofford said of her son.     Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard said the body was found at 3:30 p.m., about 1,000 yards below the Tanners Flat Campground, from where the boy disappeared last Sunday.     Phil Reschke, the uncle who found Simon, was among about 200 people searching the water and banks of the stream Saturday.     Moments before discovering the body, Reschke had stepped up on a rock and said a prayer, according to Marilyn Kofford. Then he looked down to see a plastic Gatorade bottle spinning in an eddy.     Reschke reached down and tried to flip the bottle out, but it kept floating back.     After five attempts at removing the bottle, Reschke said to himself, "I've got to check this out," said Kofford. "Then he reached down into the water and got Simon's little hand."     Family member David Richards, who is a Utah County search and rescue volunteer, yelled to the boy's father, who freed the boy from between a rock and a tree limb.     Richards and the boy's father carried the body to shore, where the parents were able to hold their son and say goodbye, said Marilyn Kofford.     "That helps with closure," she said.     A funeral is tentatively planned for Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, mourners are asked to donate to the LDS Church's perpetual education fund in Simon Kofford's name. "Simon loved to learn," his grandmother said.     Last Sunday, Simon's parents and five siblings attended church, then headed up the canyon to escape the heat, the grandmother said.     The boy disappeared while his family was picnicking within 30 feet of the swift, swollen stream.     Since then, the creek and its banks were repeatedly scoured by Sheriff's search teams, as well as members of the boy's family and church.    Observing that the stream is still "very high and dangerous," Kennard urged others planning to visit the canyons to use extra caution near the water.     "Please, please keep a hold of your kids," Kennard said. "Tether them to you, if you have to. I'd rather have your kids screaming at you than not screaming at all."     Because Simon's body was caught in an area that had been searched at least three times, Kennard speculated the body became caught there after being dislodged by searchers breaking up logjams upstream.     "The searchers were so wonderful today," Marilyn Kofford said Saturday. "There were over 200, a good deal in the water or walking the bank with sticks."         © Copyright 2002, The Salt Lake Tribune All material found on Utah OnLine is copyrighted The Salt Lake Tribune and associated news services. No material may be reproduced or reused without explicit permission from The Salt Lake Tribune.