2 Are Killed In Crash
Of Plane Near Cheshire
GALLIPOLIS - Ohio Valley friends of James Shamblin, 31, and Mark Coyner, Jr., 32, today told the tragic story of the airplane crash which took their lives at 6:55 p.m. Friday in a cornfield back of Cheshire.
Shamblin, a Cheshire man, who was born in Point Pleasant, was dead on arrival at Holzer Hospital of a fractured skull and neck. He also had a fractured right arm.
Coyner, who had lived in Point Pleasant three and one half years was killed instantly. He sustained a fractured skull and neck, fracture of both legs and arms, crushed chest and severe lacerations.
The airplane was a 65-horsepower 1942 Aeronca. According to State Highway Patrolman G.L. Bryan and other witnesses, Coyner was riding in the front seat of the two-place dual control craft and probably was piloting it.
The pair was practicing landings and takeoffs at Ura Swisher's. It was on a takeoff, according to Bryan, that the fatal accident occurred. The plane had cleared the field and had reached an altitude of 500 feet when the motor apparently failed. The airplane dropped nose first into a cornfield owned by Alva Kail of Cheshire Route 1 and was demolished.
The cornfield is about 500 feet south of the Swisher airport. The plane was owned jointly by Coyner and Jimmy Snodgrass of Racine.
Investigating the crash were state highway patrolman C.L. Bryan and C.L. Boggs, Sheriff George Ehman and Deputy Sheriff Sid Vance, and also present at the scene were state highway patrolman David Profitt and Mit White, and Coroner David R. Warehime.
James Harry Shamblin, Jr., was born April 16, 1923, son of J.H. and Edith Bonecutter Shamblin, one of 10 children. They survive him.
Brothers and sisters surviving are: Mrs. Ralph (Gladys) Rife, Donald, George, Rose, Carroll, and Tony, all of Cheshire; Ray Shamblin of Kanauga; and Mrs. Edward (Betty) Miles of Bascom, Ohio.
He married the former Norma McDade in Russell, Ky., in 1941, and she survives with three children, Gary, Larry, and Terry.
After attending school at Cheshire, Shamblin spent all of his life as a sailor or working on the river. He was on the river until the joined the Navy during World War II. At the time of his death he was foreman of the Ohio River Dredge Co. of Huntington.
Miller's funeral home said that services "probably' will be Sunday afternoon, with burial definitely in Gravel Hill Cemetery.
Coyner, born May 8, 1922, was the only child of Mark and Iva Cutright Coyner, who survive. His home was Point Pleasant Route 1, Sand Hill Road.
He married Virginia Garrison of Buchanon, W.Va., which was his birthplace, and she survives with three children: Mark Daniel, 11, Peggy Ann, 8, and Linda Lou, 5.
He was graduated from Buchanon High School and West Virginia Wesleyan University, and was a former attache of the Mason County Health Department. He left that position some weeks ago to become salesman for the Martin Steel Corp., builder of steel silos.
Coyner was a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, serving from August 1942, to October 1945. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion and the Masonic Lodge.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Short Chapel and the body will be taken following the service to the Polling Funeral Home where last rites will be held Monday at 3 p.m. and burial in the Heabner Cemetery. The Rev. Alvan C. Young will officiate. Friends may call at the Short Funeral Home.
Athens Messenger
September 19, 1954.
2 Are Killed In Crash
Of Plane Near Cheshire
GALLIPOLIS - Ohio Valley friends of James Shamblin, 31, and Mark Coyner, Jr., 32, today told the tragic story of the airplane crash which took their lives at 6:55 p.m. Friday in a cornfield back of Cheshire.
Shamblin, a Cheshire man, who was born in Point Pleasant, was dead on arrival at Holzer Hospital of a fractured skull and neck. He also had a fractured right arm.
Coyner, who had lived in Point Pleasant three and one half years was killed instantly. He sustained a fractured skull and neck, fracture of both legs and arms, crushed chest and severe lacerations.
The airplane was a 65-horsepower 1942 Aeronca. According to State Highway Patrolman G.L. Bryan and other witnesses, Coyner was riding in the front seat of the two-place dual control craft and probably was piloting it.
The pair was practicing landings and takeoffs at Ura Swisher's. It was on a takeoff, according to Bryan, that the fatal accident occurred. The plane had cleared the field and had reached an altitude of 500 feet when the motor apparently failed. The airplane dropped nose first into a cornfield owned by Alva Kail of Cheshire Route 1 and was demolished.
The cornfield is about 500 feet south of the Swisher airport. The plane was owned jointly by Coyner and Jimmy Snodgrass of Racine.
Investigating the crash were state highway patrolman C.L. Bryan and C.L. Boggs, Sheriff George Ehman and Deputy Sheriff Sid Vance, and also present at the scene were state highway patrolman David Profitt and Mit White, and Coroner David R. Warehime.
James Harry Shamblin, Jr., was born April 16, 1923, son of J.H. and Edith Bonecutter Shamblin, one of 10 children. They survive him.
Brothers and sisters surviving are: Mrs. Ralph (Gladys) Rife, Donald, George, Rose, Carroll, and Tony, all of Cheshire; Ray Shamblin of Kanauga; and Mrs. Edward (Betty) Miles of Bascom, Ohio.
He married the former Norma McDade in Russell, Ky., in 1941, and she survives with three children, Gary, Larry, and Terry.
After attending school at Cheshire, Shamblin spent all of his life as a sailor or working on the river. He was on the river until the joined the Navy during World War II. At the time of his death he was foreman of the Ohio River Dredge Co. of Huntington.
Miller's funeral home said that services "probably' will be Sunday afternoon, with burial definitely in Gravel Hill Cemetery.
Coyner, born May 8, 1922, was the only child of Mark and Iva Cutright Coyner, who survive. His home was Point Pleasant Route 1, Sand Hill Road.
He married Virginia Garrison of Buchanon, W.Va., which was his birthplace, and she survives with three children: Mark Daniel, 11, Peggy Ann, 8, and Linda Lou, 5.
He was graduated from Buchanon High School and West Virginia Wesleyan University, and was a former attache of the Mason County Health Department. He left that position some weeks ago to become salesman for the Martin Steel Corp., builder of steel silos.
Coyner was a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, serving from August 1942, to October 1945. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion and the Masonic Lodge.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Short Chapel and the body will be taken following the service to the Polling Funeral Home where last rites will be held Monday at 3 p.m. and burial in the Heabner Cemetery. The Rev. Alvan C. Young will officiate. Friends may call at the Short Funeral Home.
Athens Messenger
September 19, 1954.
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