From Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, ID) - Sunday, March 26, 1961:
AMERICAN FALLS - A Utah man, son of a Pocatello resident, was killed Friday afternoon when his single-engine airplane crashed shortly after taking off from the Pocatello airport. Gayle E. Waters, 32, Holladay, Utah, son of Mrs. Eldon Waters, crashed in Power County during a storm. He had left Pocatello Municipal airport after visiting his mother. The plane crashed about 3:30 p.m. in the mountains near Bannock Creek about five miles northwest of Pauline in the Arbon Valley. Mrs. Waters said she had taken her son to the airport shortly after 3 p.m. and she had watched him take off from the runway and head towards American Falls. Coroner Bud Kelly said Waters' body was 183 feet from the first piece of wreckage. The plane was scattered over a large area.
Waters was the father of three children, all under age three. He was born July 21, 1928 at Rexburg to Eldon Claude and Miley Brower Waters. His father died in 1957.
Waters married Donna Shariffs in May 1957 in Salt Lake City. He was the owner and manager of a plumbing shop in Salt Lake City at the time of his death.
Survivors are his mother; his wife, three sons, Royd, 2, Kevin, 1, and Danny, one month; two sisters, Mrs. John Lee and Judy Waters, both of Salt Lake City; a brother, Gary of Vernal, Utah, and grandmothers, Lottie Waters and Ada M. Brower, both of Rigby, Idaho.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 28 at Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.
AMERICAN FALLS - A Utah man, son of a Pocatello resident, was killed Friday afternoon when his single-engine airplane crashed shortly after taking off from the Pocatello airport. Gayle E. Waters, 32, Holladay, Utah, son of Mrs. Eldon Waters, crashed in Power County during a storm. He had left Pocatello Municipal airport after visiting his mother. The plane crashed about 3:30 p.m. in the mountains near Bannock Creek about five miles northwest of Pauline in the Arbon Valley. Mrs. Waters said she had taken her son to the airport shortly after 3 p.m. and she had watched him take off from the runway and head towards American Falls. Coroner Bud Kelly said Waters' body was 183 feet from the first piece of wreckage. The plane was scattered over a large area.
Waters was the father of three children, all under age three. He was born July 21, 1928 at Rexburg to Eldon Claude and Miley Brower Waters. His father died in 1957.
Waters married Donna Shariffs in May 1957 in Salt Lake City. He was the owner and manager of a plumbing shop in Salt Lake City at the time of his death.
Survivors are his mother; his wife, three sons, Royd, 2, Kevin, 1, and Danny, one month; two sisters, Mrs. John Lee and Judy Waters, both of Salt Lake City; a brother, Gary of Vernal, Utah, and grandmothers, Lottie Waters and Ada M. Brower, both of Rigby, Idaho.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 28 at Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.
From Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, ID) - Sunday, March 26, 1961:
AMERICAN FALLS - A Utah man, son of a Pocatello resident, was killed Friday afternoon when his single-engine airplane crashed shortly after taking off from the Pocatello airport. Gayle E. Waters, 32, Holladay, Utah, son of Mrs. Eldon Waters, crashed in Power County during a storm. He had left Pocatello Municipal airport after visiting his mother. The plane crashed about 3:30 p.m. in the mountains near Bannock Creek about five miles northwest of Pauline in the Arbon Valley. Mrs. Waters said she had taken her son to the airport shortly after 3 p.m. and she had watched him take off from the runway and head towards American Falls. Coroner Bud Kelly said Waters' body was 183 feet from the first piece of wreckage. The plane was scattered over a large area.
Waters was the father of three children, all under age three. He was born July 21, 1928 at Rexburg to Eldon Claude and Miley Brower Waters. His father died in 1957.
Waters married Donna Shariffs in May 1957 in Salt Lake City. He was the owner and manager of a plumbing shop in Salt Lake City at the time of his death.
Survivors are his mother; his wife, three sons, Royd, 2, Kevin, 1, and Danny, one month; two sisters, Mrs. John Lee and Judy Waters, both of Salt Lake City; a brother, Gary of Vernal, Utah, and grandmothers, Lottie Waters and Ada M. Brower, both of Rigby, Idaho.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 28 at Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.
AMERICAN FALLS - A Utah man, son of a Pocatello resident, was killed Friday afternoon when his single-engine airplane crashed shortly after taking off from the Pocatello airport. Gayle E. Waters, 32, Holladay, Utah, son of Mrs. Eldon Waters, crashed in Power County during a storm. He had left Pocatello Municipal airport after visiting his mother. The plane crashed about 3:30 p.m. in the mountains near Bannock Creek about five miles northwest of Pauline in the Arbon Valley. Mrs. Waters said she had taken her son to the airport shortly after 3 p.m. and she had watched him take off from the runway and head towards American Falls. Coroner Bud Kelly said Waters' body was 183 feet from the first piece of wreckage. The plane was scattered over a large area.
Waters was the father of three children, all under age three. He was born July 21, 1928 at Rexburg to Eldon Claude and Miley Brower Waters. His father died in 1957.
Waters married Donna Shariffs in May 1957 in Salt Lake City. He was the owner and manager of a plumbing shop in Salt Lake City at the time of his death.
Survivors are his mother; his wife, three sons, Royd, 2, Kevin, 1, and Danny, one month; two sisters, Mrs. John Lee and Judy Waters, both of Salt Lake City; a brother, Gary of Vernal, Utah, and grandmothers, Lottie Waters and Ada M. Brower, both of Rigby, Idaho.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 28 at Larkin Mortuary in Salt Lake City. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.
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