Robert H. Solley, age 54 and his wife Gladys, age 47, of Fort Collins CO., died in a small air plane accident on November 28, 1971, along with friends, Emanuel "Chuck" Boxberger, age 40, and Frances Ellen Boxberger age 35, their children, Kathryn Lee age 15, and Kristina Sue age 17, and William John "Billy" Boxberger 11, all of Fort Collins CO.
The Piper Cherokee airplane, with Chuck Boxberger at the controls, had taken off from the Sessions Airport, a small private airfield, when it crashed at 10:00 am, approximately four miles from the runway. Thick timber in the crash area of the Davey Crockett National Forest prevented searchers from recovering the bodies from the wreckage until seven hours after the crash. A deer hunter who witnessed the crash said he heard the plane take off and then heard the engine fail. It skimmed along tree tops before crumpling to a stop. The East Texas area was under a severe thunderstorm watch at the time of the crash and it was raining. The dense forest, coupled with bad weather caused the delay in finding the plane. The plane did not burn after the crash.
Gladys married Robert Salley in 1966 in Kilgore TX. She was a housewife and before her marriage was a resident of Forest TX. She is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage.
Funeral services are pending through O.T. Allen and Son's Funeral Chapel in Alto TX.
Printed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan 11-29-1971
The Piper Cherokee airplane, with Chuck Boxberger at the controls, had taken off from the Sessions Airport, a small private airfield, when it crashed at 10:00 am, approximately four miles from the runway. Thick timber in the crash area of the Davey Crockett National Forest prevented searchers from recovering the bodies from the wreckage until seven hours after the crash. A deer hunter who witnessed the crash said he heard the plane take off and then heard the engine fail. It skimmed along tree tops before crumpling to a stop. The East Texas area was under a severe thunderstorm watch at the time of the crash and it was raining. The dense forest, coupled with bad weather caused the delay in finding the plane. The plane did not burn after the crash.
Gladys married Robert Salley in 1966 in Kilgore TX. She was a housewife and before her marriage was a resident of Forest TX. She is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage.
Funeral services are pending through O.T. Allen and Son's Funeral Chapel in Alto TX.
Printed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan 11-29-1971
Robert H. Solley, age 54 and his wife Gladys, age 47, of Fort Collins CO., died in a small air plane accident on November 28, 1971, along with friends, Emanuel "Chuck" Boxberger, age 40, and Frances Ellen Boxberger age 35, their children, Kathryn Lee age 15, and Kristina Sue age 17, and William John "Billy" Boxberger 11, all of Fort Collins CO.
The Piper Cherokee airplane, with Chuck Boxberger at the controls, had taken off from the Sessions Airport, a small private airfield, when it crashed at 10:00 am, approximately four miles from the runway. Thick timber in the crash area of the Davey Crockett National Forest prevented searchers from recovering the bodies from the wreckage until seven hours after the crash. A deer hunter who witnessed the crash said he heard the plane take off and then heard the engine fail. It skimmed along tree tops before crumpling to a stop. The East Texas area was under a severe thunderstorm watch at the time of the crash and it was raining. The dense forest, coupled with bad weather caused the delay in finding the plane. The plane did not burn after the crash.
Gladys married Robert Salley in 1966 in Kilgore TX. She was a housewife and before her marriage was a resident of Forest TX. She is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage.
Funeral services are pending through O.T. Allen and Son's Funeral Chapel in Alto TX.
Printed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan 11-29-1971
The Piper Cherokee airplane, with Chuck Boxberger at the controls, had taken off from the Sessions Airport, a small private airfield, when it crashed at 10:00 am, approximately four miles from the runway. Thick timber in the crash area of the Davey Crockett National Forest prevented searchers from recovering the bodies from the wreckage until seven hours after the crash. A deer hunter who witnessed the crash said he heard the plane take off and then heard the engine fail. It skimmed along tree tops before crumpling to a stop. The East Texas area was under a severe thunderstorm watch at the time of the crash and it was raining. The dense forest, coupled with bad weather caused the delay in finding the plane. The plane did not burn after the crash.
Gladys married Robert Salley in 1966 in Kilgore TX. She was a housewife and before her marriage was a resident of Forest TX. She is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage.
Funeral services are pending through O.T. Allen and Son's Funeral Chapel in Alto TX.
Printed in the Fort Collins Coloradoan 11-29-1971
Bio by: Shirley Utley Cressler
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