obituary:
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Crash Victim's Funeral is Set.
Mount Hope (RNS) --- Funeral services for Airman 2C. Donald Branscome, Mount Hope, who was killed in a plane crash in Alaska, will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 12 in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri, his family has been notified by the Air Force.
Branscome died with 11 other men in the crash Sept. 1.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Bell Brancome; a son, Donald Wayne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Branscome of Mount Hope; and two sisters, Mrs. Robert McGraw of Beckley and Mrs. Carl Humphrey of Bradley.
Branscome was graduated from Mount Hope High School in 1952 and had been in the Air Force since May 1952. He was a student aerial engineer and had planned to make a career of the Air Force.
Brancome had been at Elmdorf Air Force Base, Alaska, since three weeks before the crash, and his wife and 20-month-old son had been with him two weeks.
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Raleigh Register
Beckley, W. Va.
Tuesday Afternoon
September 20, 1955
page 10
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Crash Victim's Funeral is Set.
Mount Hope (RNS) --- Funeral services for Airman 2C. Donald Branscome, Mount Hope, who was killed in a plane crash in Alaska, will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 12 in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri, his family has been notified by the Air Force.
Branscome died with 11 other men in the crash Sept. 1.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Bell Brancome; a son, Donald Wayne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Branscome of Mount Hope; and two sisters, Mrs. Robert McGraw of Beckley and Mrs. Carl Humphrey of Bradley.
Branscome was graduated from Mount Hope High School in 1952 and had been in the Air Force since May 1952. He was a student aerial engineer and had planned to make a career of the Air Force.
Brancome had been at Elmdorf Air Force Base, Alaska, since three weeks before the crash, and his wife and 20-month-old son had been with him two weeks.
__________________
Raleigh Register
Beckley, W. Va.
Tuesday Afternoon
September 20, 1955
page 10
obituary:
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Crash Victim's Funeral is Set.
Mount Hope (RNS) --- Funeral services for Airman 2C. Donald Branscome, Mount Hope, who was killed in a plane crash in Alaska, will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 12 in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri, his family has been notified by the Air Force.
Branscome died with 11 other men in the crash Sept. 1.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Bell Brancome; a son, Donald Wayne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Branscome of Mount Hope; and two sisters, Mrs. Robert McGraw of Beckley and Mrs. Carl Humphrey of Bradley.
Branscome was graduated from Mount Hope High School in 1952 and had been in the Air Force since May 1952. He was a student aerial engineer and had planned to make a career of the Air Force.
Brancome had been at Elmdorf Air Force Base, Alaska, since three weeks before the crash, and his wife and 20-month-old son had been with him two weeks.
__________________
Raleigh Register
Beckley, W. Va.
Tuesday Afternoon
September 20, 1955
page 10
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Crash Victim's Funeral is Set.
Mount Hope (RNS) --- Funeral services for Airman 2C. Donald Branscome, Mount Hope, who was killed in a plane crash in Alaska, will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 12 in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri, his family has been notified by the Air Force.
Branscome died with 11 other men in the crash Sept. 1.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Bell Brancome; a son, Donald Wayne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Branscome of Mount Hope; and two sisters, Mrs. Robert McGraw of Beckley and Mrs. Carl Humphrey of Bradley.
Branscome was graduated from Mount Hope High School in 1952 and had been in the Air Force since May 1952. He was a student aerial engineer and had planned to make a career of the Air Force.
Brancome had been at Elmdorf Air Force Base, Alaska, since three weeks before the crash, and his wife and 20-month-old son had been with him two weeks.
__________________
Raleigh Register
Beckley, W. Va.
Tuesday Afternoon
September 20, 1955
page 10
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