Ward was the son of Ida Ella (nee Williams) and Hartford Columbus Mathis. He was a Navy pilot in World War II. Ward married Mary Virginia Stackable and they had three children.
Ward was a hammer driver at Carlton Forge Works. He owned and piloted a single engine Howard airplane. On Labor Day week-end in 1940, he flew co-worker, Elmer Hamler, back to Kansas City to visit Hamler's widowed mother, whom he had not seen in many years.
On Monday, May 30th, Mathis's plane left Kansas City, refueled at Santa Fe, New Mexico Municipal Airport and filed a flight plan, indicating he would end the flight in Long Beach. The plane was never heard from again. A three-state (California, New Mexico, Arizona) search was launched to locate the plane, but to no avail. Eventually, a fisherman off the coast of Ventura County, California, found a wheel to a plane that was later identified as being from the missing aircraft. Neither the rest of the aircraft nor the bodies were ever recovered.
Ward was a hammer driver at Carlton Forge Works. He owned and piloted a single engine Howard airplane. On Labor Day week-end in 1940, he flew co-worker, Elmer Hamler, back to Kansas City to visit Hamler's widowed mother, whom he had not seen in many years.
On Monday, May 30th, Mathis's plane left Kansas City, refueled at Santa Fe, New Mexico Municipal Airport and filed a flight plan, indicating he would end the flight in Long Beach. The plane was never heard from again. A three-state (California, New Mexico, Arizona) search was launched to locate the plane, but to no avail. Eventually, a fisherman off the coast of Ventura County, California, found a wheel to a plane that was later identified as being from the missing aircraft. Neither the rest of the aircraft nor the bodies were ever recovered.
Ward was the son of Ida Ella (nee Williams) and Hartford Columbus Mathis. He was a Navy pilot in World War II. Ward married Mary Virginia Stackable and they had three children.
Ward was a hammer driver at Carlton Forge Works. He owned and piloted a single engine Howard airplane. On Labor Day week-end in 1940, he flew co-worker, Elmer Hamler, back to Kansas City to visit Hamler's widowed mother, whom he had not seen in many years.
On Monday, May 30th, Mathis's plane left Kansas City, refueled at Santa Fe, New Mexico Municipal Airport and filed a flight plan, indicating he would end the flight in Long Beach. The plane was never heard from again. A three-state (California, New Mexico, Arizona) search was launched to locate the plane, but to no avail. Eventually, a fisherman off the coast of Ventura County, California, found a wheel to a plane that was later identified as being from the missing aircraft. Neither the rest of the aircraft nor the bodies were ever recovered.
Ward was a hammer driver at Carlton Forge Works. He owned and piloted a single engine Howard airplane. On Labor Day week-end in 1940, he flew co-worker, Elmer Hamler, back to Kansas City to visit Hamler's widowed mother, whom he had not seen in many years.
On Monday, May 30th, Mathis's plane left Kansas City, refueled at Santa Fe, New Mexico Municipal Airport and filed a flight plan, indicating he would end the flight in Long Beach. The plane was never heard from again. A three-state (California, New Mexico, Arizona) search was launched to locate the plane, but to no avail. Eventually, a fisherman off the coast of Ventura County, California, found a wheel to a plane that was later identified as being from the missing aircraft. Neither the rest of the aircraft nor the bodies were ever recovered.
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