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Dienna Champneys

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Dienna Champneys

Birth
Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA
Death
23 Nov 1962 (aged 21)
Howard County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
O-0-85-3E
Memorial ID
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Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 28, 1962
Granddaughter of Champneys Dies in Crash

EVANSTON (Special) – Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Champneys attended funeral services in Ogden Monday for their granddaughter, Dienna Champneys, 21, who died in a plane crash in Maryland Friday, Nov. 23. A stewardess for United Air Lines, she was traveling as a passenger when the plane crashed near Ellicott, Md. All 17 persons aboard will killed.

Miss Champneys was born March 30, 1941, in Ogden, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle E. Champneys. She was graduated from Weber college in 1961. Her parents said she took the flight Friday after having Thanksgiving dinner with her brother, Stephen Champneys, who is stationed with the navy at Bayonne, N.J.

She began her career with the airline last January and since February had been flying out of Newark, N.J. She was an on-the-job trainee for the airline.

Miss Champneys was a finalist in the Miss Ogden beauty contest in 1960. In 1961 she was voted outstanding member of the Ladaneda Social club at Weber college.

Surviving are her parents, one sister, Mrs. Robert (Sheryl) Clements, Ogden; two brothers, David Champneys, Ogden; Stephen Champneys, Bayonne, N.J.; grandfather Irl O. Champneys, Evanston and grandmother, Mrs. Anna Brown, Ogden.

Funeral services were conducted at the Larkin mortuary chapel in Ogden. Burial was in the Ogden cemetery.
Rock Springs Daily Rocket, Nov 28, 1962
Granddaughter of Champneys Dies in Crash

EVANSTON (Special) – Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Champneys attended funeral services in Ogden Monday for their granddaughter, Dienna Champneys, 21, who died in a plane crash in Maryland Friday, Nov. 23. A stewardess for United Air Lines, she was traveling as a passenger when the plane crashed near Ellicott, Md. All 17 persons aboard will killed.

Miss Champneys was born March 30, 1941, in Ogden, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle E. Champneys. She was graduated from Weber college in 1961. Her parents said she took the flight Friday after having Thanksgiving dinner with her brother, Stephen Champneys, who is stationed with the navy at Bayonne, N.J.

She began her career with the airline last January and since February had been flying out of Newark, N.J. She was an on-the-job trainee for the airline.

Miss Champneys was a finalist in the Miss Ogden beauty contest in 1960. In 1961 she was voted outstanding member of the Ladaneda Social club at Weber college.

Surviving are her parents, one sister, Mrs. Robert (Sheryl) Clements, Ogden; two brothers, David Champneys, Ogden; Stephen Champneys, Bayonne, N.J.; grandfather Irl O. Champneys, Evanston and grandmother, Mrs. Anna Brown, Ogden.

Funeral services were conducted at the Larkin mortuary chapel in Ogden. Burial was in the Ogden cemetery.


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