In honor of Dad’s 82nd birthday, I am sharing these photos.
After Dad’s first wife, Vicki, passed away, most of her photos and other documents were scanned. Found in those documents were these two class pictures for Dad. These are for his 1952 and 1953 class years. Since he graduated in 1961, these are likely his 3rd and 4th grade pictures. He attended Plain City Elementary in Plain City, Utah.
Back (l-r): Gary Butler, Frances Rochell, (unknown teacher behind Frances), Linda Knight, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Kenneth Clark, unknown, Kenneth Wayment; Middle: unknown, Kent Hodson, Elaine Rogers, Connie Poulsen, Kay East, Carole Carver, May Endow, unknown; Front: Dean Allred, Fred Coy, unknown, Ernest Hansen, Leon Taylor, Milo Ross, unknown, unknown.
Back (l-r): Carol Wheatley, Connie Poulsen, Austin McWilliams, Mr. Leslie Gerald Bundy, Kenneth Wayment, Kenneth Clark, unknown, Cleora Meyerhoffer, unknown, Gary Butler, Donna Mae Jensen; Middle: Elgie Post, Elayne Rogers, May Endow, unknown, Frances Rochell, Linda Knight, Carole Carver, Kay East, Deanna Slater; Front: Kent Hodson, Larry, Dean Allred, Fred Coy, Leon Taylor, Milo Ross, unknown, Jeff East, Ernest Hansen
Mr. Leslie Gerald “Jerry” Bundy (1929 – 1999)
Ms. Emma Walker Munson (1918 – 1992)
Dean Allred (1943 – alive)
Ilene Bingham (1943 – alive)
Gary Butler (1943 – alive)
Carole Carver (1943 – alive)
Kenneth Clark (1943 – alive)
Fred Coy (1943 – alive)
Jeff East (1943 – alive)
Kay East (1943 – alive)
Maye Endow (1943 – alive) married Bothwell
Ernest Walter Hansen (1943 – 2010)
John Kent Hodson (1943 – 2022)
Donna Mae Jensen (1943 – alive)
Linda Knight (1943 – alive) married Charlton
Austin McWilliams (1943 – alive)
Cleora Mae Meyerhoffer (1943 – 2013) married Oliver
Standard Examiner article about Plain City plane crash
I previously wrote an article about the piece of airplane scrap Grandpa kept in his front yard. I referenced this newspaper article and that I would type it up and make it available. Here it is. Before, here is a picture of that piece of scrap Grandpa Ross picked up in Mike Pananzio’s garden.
Piece of airplane wreckage Milo Ross picked up in Mike Pananzio’s garden
Cargo Plane Loses Wing Over Plain City; 2 Die In Crash
Ogden Utah, Saturday October 15, 1960
Smoke Billow From Ship In Mid-Air, Witnesses Say
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Plain City – At least two airmen were killed at 11a.m. today when a Capitol Airlines C46 twin-engined plane leased to the Air Force lost a wing and spun into a cornfield.
Eyewitnesses said the plane caught fire in mid-air and fell to earth in a field of Paul Knight at 1975 N 4000 W.
Debris was scattered for more than a mile and a gaping hole in the open field underscored the violence of the impact.
Identities of the dead were not known immediately. Parts of the two bodies were strewn over the area.
An Air Force spokesman said it was believed only the unidentified pilot and co-pilot were aboard.
No one in this community of about 900 people was injured but authorities evacuated residents living in nearby houses.
The Air Forces said the plane was owned by Capitol Airways of Berry Field, Nashville, Tenn. It was contracted by the Air Force to haul freight and was inbound to hill Air force Base about 10 miles southeast of the crash site.
The plane presumably was swinging into the fight pattern to approach the landing strips.
Plain City residents said it was traveling almost directly toward Ben Lomond peak when it came to grief.
Estimates of its altitude varied, but one source said it looked to be about 1,00 feet up.
Louis E Pierce of Brigham City was one eye witness. He said saw the plane in the air and heard and engine sputter, then saw a black smoke cloud and saw one wing fall off.
Whether it broke loose before the plane nosed to earth or was blown that distance by the explosion could not be learned.
Hill Air Force Base officials were airlifted to the scene by helicopter.
Also called to the scene were the Weber County fire department and officers of the Weber County sheriff.
Moss ambulance Service was called, but the attendant said, “There was nothing to pick up. We saw parts of one body all over a field. Hill AFB officials would not release any information on the crash. They and officials of the Federal Aviation Agency were at the scene within the first hour and ordered the area roped off.
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I found this article online from the Standard Examiner on the 17th, two days after the above article.
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TRIO PROBING FOR REASON IN AIR CRASH.
A three-man investigating panel from the Federal Aviation Agency is probing today for the cause of a spectacular plane crash Saturday in Plain City which killed two civilians when the plane plummeted into a corn field minus a wing. The crew from the FAA offices in San Francisco is headed by JACK BROWN and is headquartered at Hill Air Force Base. Meanwhile, the scene of the crash, a corn field owned by PAUL KNIGHT of 1874 N. 400 W., is being guarded by members of the Weber County Jeep Patrol. The wind that fell, carrying with it one of the plane’s two engines, completely blocked a road from the Plain City cemetery and created a serious fire hazard because of spilled fuel from the wing tanks. The wing was removed from the highway by jeep patrol members. FAA investigators are searching through a sea of charred and burned debris, scattered over a wide area extending in all directions from the 20 to 30-foot crater made when the plane hit the ground. Enroute To Hill. The plane, a C46, was enroute to Hill Air Force Base from Rapid City, S.D., carrying about 10,000 pounds of Air Force cargo and was under contract to the Air Force by Capitol Airways of Berry Field, Nashville, Tenn. Killed instantly were the pilot and co-pilot, identified at REED A. BURT, 42, Salt Lake City, and Oliver N. CHADWELL, JR., Edmonton, Okla. The crash and the movement of the plane moments before the crash took place place in full view of several eye witnesses. The height of the plane and its apparent trouble drew the attention of several who said they saw the wing drop off and then saw the plane plunge to the ground, bursting into flames. The intense heat of the fire made it impossible for anyone to attempt rescuing crew members and their bodies were so badly broken it was impossible for officials at the scene to determine the size of the crew.
Ogden Standard Examiner Utah 1960-10-17
Reed Allen Burt was born 30 September 1917 in Salt Lake City. He married Jewell Alma Butler (1920-2018) 16 February 1944 in Midland, Texas. His wife and three children survived him.
Oliver Henry Chadwell Jr was born in May 1929 in Oklahoma. I cannot see that he was married.
Sagacity 