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John Franklin Wynn

Birth
Tira, Hopkins County, Texas, USA
Death
Feb 1953 (aged 34)
Burial
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Paris News
(Paris, Lamar County, Texas)
Wed. Feb. 18, 1953
Pg. 11

Parisian's Nephew Lost Aboard Plane

John Wynn, 34, of Richmond, Pa., formerly of Sulphur Springs, was among the victims of the National Airlines plane crash Saturday night in the Gulf of Mexico. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Wynn of Sulphur Springs, he was a nephew of Mrs. James R. Gill of 228-6th S. E. here.

His body was not among the 17 recovered from the storm-battered plane which crashed with 41 passengers and a crew of five, enroute from Tampa, Fla., for New Orleans.

Mr. Wynn, executive of an insurance firm, was born at Tira, Hopkins County, and was graduated from Cooper High School, serving in the Navy during World War II.

Survivors besides his parents include his wife and a two-year-old son, and three brothers, Robert Wynn and James Wynn, Dallas, and Tom Wynn, Harrisburg, Pa.

Paris News
(Paris, Lamar County, Texas)
Wed. Feb. 18, 1953
Pg. 11

Parisian's Nephew Lost Aboard Plane

John Wynn, 34, of Richmond, Pa., formerly of Sulphur Springs, was among the victims of the National Airlines plane crash Saturday night in the Gulf of Mexico. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Wynn of Sulphur Springs, he was a nephew of Mrs. James R. Gill of 228-6th S. E. here.

His body was not among the 17 recovered from the storm-battered plane which crashed with 41 passengers and a crew of five, enroute from Tampa, Fla., for New Orleans.

Mr. Wynn, executive of an insurance firm, was born at Tira, Hopkins County, and was graduated from Cooper High School, serving in the Navy during World War II.

Survivors besides his parents include his wife and a two-year-old son, and three brothers, Robert Wynn and James Wynn, Dallas, and Tom Wynn, Harrisburg, Pa.


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