Lt. H. R. Leeper Killed In Florida, June 28
Lt. Harold R. Leeper, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Leeper of Houston, Tex., but formerly of this county, was killed when his plane crashed June 28. He and another pilot, in separate planes, were at a high altitude; the second pilot saw the Leeper plane falling rapidly and tried to follow it, but lost sight of it. Others at the airport reported a plane falling in a stream about two miles away. The stream was not deep but muddy, but they failed to find the plane or body.
Lt. Leeper was instructor at aviation bases in Corpus Christi and Dallas, Texas. He had joined the navy air force in 1941, and had asked for Foreign Service and was training preparatory to such a move when the accident occurred.
Memorial services were held simultaneously at Melbourne, Fla., and Houston, Tex., July 1. Besides his parents, a sister and two brothers, survive. He was a grandson of Mrs. James Leeper of Luray and a nephew of C. H. Kittle of Arbela.
Memphis Reveille - Memphis, Missouri - July 8, 1943 ed. - p1, c2
Lt. Harold R. Leeper, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Leeper of Houston, Tex., but formerly of this county, was killed when his plane crashed June 28. He and another pilot, in separate planes, were at a high altitude; the second pilot saw the Leeper plane falling rapidly and tried to follow it, but lost sight of it. Others at the airport reported a plane falling in a stream about two miles away. The stream was not deep but muddy, but they failed to find the plane or body.
Lt. Leeper was instructor at aviation bases in Corpus Christi and Dallas, Texas. He had joined the navy air force in 1941, and had asked for Foreign Service and was training preparatory to such a move when the accident occurred.
Memorial services were held simultaneously at Melbourne, Fla., and Houston, Tex., July 1. Besides his parents, a sister and two brothers, survive. He was a grandson of Mrs. James Leeper of Luray and a nephew of C. H. Kittle of Arbela.
Memphis Reveille - Memphis, Missouri - July 8, 1943 ed. - p1, c2
Lt. H. R. Leeper Killed In Florida, June 28
Lt. Harold R. Leeper, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Leeper of Houston, Tex., but formerly of this county, was killed when his plane crashed June 28. He and another pilot, in separate planes, were at a high altitude; the second pilot saw the Leeper plane falling rapidly and tried to follow it, but lost sight of it. Others at the airport reported a plane falling in a stream about two miles away. The stream was not deep but muddy, but they failed to find the plane or body.
Lt. Leeper was instructor at aviation bases in Corpus Christi and Dallas, Texas. He had joined the navy air force in 1941, and had asked for Foreign Service and was training preparatory to such a move when the accident occurred.
Memorial services were held simultaneously at Melbourne, Fla., and Houston, Tex., July 1. Besides his parents, a sister and two brothers, survive. He was a grandson of Mrs. James Leeper of Luray and a nephew of C. H. Kittle of Arbela.
Memphis Reveille - Memphis, Missouri - July 8, 1943 ed. - p1, c2
Lt. Harold R. Leeper, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Leeper of Houston, Tex., but formerly of this county, was killed when his plane crashed June 28. He and another pilot, in separate planes, were at a high altitude; the second pilot saw the Leeper plane falling rapidly and tried to follow it, but lost sight of it. Others at the airport reported a plane falling in a stream about two miles away. The stream was not deep but muddy, but they failed to find the plane or body.
Lt. Leeper was instructor at aviation bases in Corpus Christi and Dallas, Texas. He had joined the navy air force in 1941, and had asked for Foreign Service and was training preparatory to such a move when the accident occurred.
Memorial services were held simultaneously at Melbourne, Fla., and Houston, Tex., July 1. Besides his parents, a sister and two brothers, survive. He was a grandson of Mrs. James Leeper of Luray and a nephew of C. H. Kittle of Arbela.
Memphis Reveille - Memphis, Missouri - July 8, 1943 ed. - p1, c2
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