Funeral Held at Louisa, Kentucky, for Major Wood
Planes Drop Flowers As Pilot, Killed While on Speed Flight, Is lowered into the Grave
1927 was the greatest time in aviation history. Pilots were flying across the nation and across the Altantic from NY to Paris for the first time. Daring young men raced each other in "National Tours". Thousands of spectators gathered to watch. Major John Perry Wood was one of these flyers.
He was lost in one such race as his plane crashed in Needles, California. He is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Louisa, Kentucky next to his brother and mother. He never married.
Entered into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame in Nov 2008
Sister : Dorothy A. Wood Willit is at # 81022511 Married to Robert Willet
brother: Jay Northup Wood is at #133303032
Sister: Lucy Rowe Wood Gould married to Charles French Gould
Planes Drop Flowers As Pilot, Killed While on Speed Flight, Is lowered into the Grave
1927 was the greatest time in aviation history. Pilots were flying across the nation and across the Altantic from NY to Paris for the first time. Daring young men raced each other in "National Tours". Thousands of spectators gathered to watch. Major John Perry Wood was one of these flyers.
He was lost in one such race as his plane crashed in Needles, California. He is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Louisa, Kentucky next to his brother and mother. He never married.
Entered into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame in Nov 2008
Sister : Dorothy A. Wood Willit is at # 81022511 Married to Robert Willet
brother: Jay Northup Wood is at #133303032
Sister: Lucy Rowe Wood Gould married to Charles French Gould
Funeral Held at Louisa, Kentucky, for Major Wood
Planes Drop Flowers As Pilot, Killed While on Speed Flight, Is lowered into the Grave
1927 was the greatest time in aviation history. Pilots were flying across the nation and across the Altantic from NY to Paris for the first time. Daring young men raced each other in "National Tours". Thousands of spectators gathered to watch. Major John Perry Wood was one of these flyers.
He was lost in one such race as his plane crashed in Needles, California. He is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Louisa, Kentucky next to his brother and mother. He never married.
Entered into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame in Nov 2008
Sister : Dorothy A. Wood Willit is at # 81022511 Married to Robert Willet
brother: Jay Northup Wood is at #133303032
Sister: Lucy Rowe Wood Gould married to Charles French Gould
Planes Drop Flowers As Pilot, Killed While on Speed Flight, Is lowered into the Grave
1927 was the greatest time in aviation history. Pilots were flying across the nation and across the Altantic from NY to Paris for the first time. Daring young men raced each other in "National Tours". Thousands of spectators gathered to watch. Major John Perry Wood was one of these flyers.
He was lost in one such race as his plane crashed in Needles, California. He is buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Louisa, Kentucky next to his brother and mother. He never married.
Entered into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame in Nov 2008
Sister : Dorothy A. Wood Willit is at # 81022511 Married to Robert Willet
brother: Jay Northup Wood is at #133303032
Sister: Lucy Rowe Wood Gould married to Charles French Gould
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