Son of Emory E. Frame
Jack was married to Mary K. Cutlip.
They were married on May 3, 1946 in Charleston, WV.
He was 24 and she was 22.
When she remarried in 1958, she was listed as divorced, but she and Jack were married when he passed away.
Lived on Summers Avenue, South Charleston, WV
Occupation: Insurance Salesman
Cause of Death: Airplane Crash at 5:50 pm on June 6, 1952
The Stinson landed nose first in about two feet of water and soft mud.
Bodies of MURPHY and FRAME were taken from the plane in the water shortly after the crash, but RAHALL'S body remained in the water and wreckage until 12:30 a.m. when it became known that he had been a passenger in the plane.
Trooper Lawrence Craft said that MURPHY had flown to Toledo several days ago to purchase a new car, and had left one of his passengers there to drive the car back. He, RAHALL and FRAME had spent the night in Columbus and were en route back to Charleston when the crash happened.
It was not known that RAHALL was a passenger until the fourth man, identified as Dick Shuck, an employe of MURPHY, arrived here with the new car about midnight and said that RAHALL had been with the others when the plane took off from Columbus.
The plane was partially dragged from the water and RAHALL'S body was found in the wreckage, Craft said.
First to reach the wreckage of the Stinson were Tom West of Poca and Dennis Jones, Ralph Davis and Charles Boggens all of Nitro, who were on the highway a short distance away.
They plunged through the underbrush and then waded into the muddy water to pull the bodies of MURPHY and FRAME from the wreckage.
"We thought that MURPHY was possibly still alive when we got him out," Davis said. "But he couldn't have lived more than a few moments afterward."
CLARK, who had flown a "total of more than 12,000 hours, I'm sure," Col. Stark said, was one of the best pilots of small craft in the Kanawha valley, Stark commented. He and CLARK had known each other for many years, and Stark said that he had given CLARK instruction in flying many years ago.
CLARK, ironically, had taught MURPHY to fly. CLARK had operated Clark field on the Winfield road several years. He was one of the fliers who operated from old Wertz field at Institute, and had flown in this vicinity since about 1930. At one time he operated a seaplane base, the first in this area, on the Kanawha river, and during the last war he taught flying under government contract.
A watch of FRAME'S wrist had stopped at 5:50 p.m. indicating the time of the wreck, but the watch on the arm of KIRBY was still running hours after the accident.
All five bodies were mangled, that of FRAME so badly that identification was almost impossible for a time.
Charleston Daily Mail West Virginia 1952-06-07
Jack was married to Mary K. Cutlip.
They were married on May 3, 1946 in Charleston, WV.
He was 24 and she was 22.
When she remarried in 1958, she was listed as divorced, but she and Jack were married when he passed away.
Lived on Summers Avenue, South Charleston, WV
Occupation: Insurance Salesman
Cause of Death: Airplane Crash at 5:50 pm on June 6, 1952
The Stinson landed nose first in about two feet of water and soft mud.
Bodies of MURPHY and FRAME were taken from the plane in the water shortly after the crash, but RAHALL'S body remained in the water and wreckage until 12:30 a.m. when it became known that he had been a passenger in the plane.
Trooper Lawrence Craft said that MURPHY had flown to Toledo several days ago to purchase a new car, and had left one of his passengers there to drive the car back. He, RAHALL and FRAME had spent the night in Columbus and were en route back to Charleston when the crash happened.
It was not known that RAHALL was a passenger until the fourth man, identified as Dick Shuck, an employe of MURPHY, arrived here with the new car about midnight and said that RAHALL had been with the others when the plane took off from Columbus.
The plane was partially dragged from the water and RAHALL'S body was found in the wreckage, Craft said.
First to reach the wreckage of the Stinson were Tom West of Poca and Dennis Jones, Ralph Davis and Charles Boggens all of Nitro, who were on the highway a short distance away.
They plunged through the underbrush and then waded into the muddy water to pull the bodies of MURPHY and FRAME from the wreckage.
"We thought that MURPHY was possibly still alive when we got him out," Davis said. "But he couldn't have lived more than a few moments afterward."
CLARK, who had flown a "total of more than 12,000 hours, I'm sure," Col. Stark said, was one of the best pilots of small craft in the Kanawha valley, Stark commented. He and CLARK had known each other for many years, and Stark said that he had given CLARK instruction in flying many years ago.
CLARK, ironically, had taught MURPHY to fly. CLARK had operated Clark field on the Winfield road several years. He was one of the fliers who operated from old Wertz field at Institute, and had flown in this vicinity since about 1930. At one time he operated a seaplane base, the first in this area, on the Kanawha river, and during the last war he taught flying under government contract.
A watch of FRAME'S wrist had stopped at 5:50 p.m. indicating the time of the wreck, but the watch on the arm of KIRBY was still running hours after the accident.
All five bodies were mangled, that of FRAME so badly that identification was almost impossible for a time.
Charleston Daily Mail West Virginia 1952-06-07
Son of Emory E. Frame
Jack was married to Mary K. Cutlip.
They were married on May 3, 1946 in Charleston, WV.
He was 24 and she was 22.
When she remarried in 1958, she was listed as divorced, but she and Jack were married when he passed away.
Lived on Summers Avenue, South Charleston, WV
Occupation: Insurance Salesman
Cause of Death: Airplane Crash at 5:50 pm on June 6, 1952
The Stinson landed nose first in about two feet of water and soft mud.
Bodies of MURPHY and FRAME were taken from the plane in the water shortly after the crash, but RAHALL'S body remained in the water and wreckage until 12:30 a.m. when it became known that he had been a passenger in the plane.
Trooper Lawrence Craft said that MURPHY had flown to Toledo several days ago to purchase a new car, and had left one of his passengers there to drive the car back. He, RAHALL and FRAME had spent the night in Columbus and were en route back to Charleston when the crash happened.
It was not known that RAHALL was a passenger until the fourth man, identified as Dick Shuck, an employe of MURPHY, arrived here with the new car about midnight and said that RAHALL had been with the others when the plane took off from Columbus.
The plane was partially dragged from the water and RAHALL'S body was found in the wreckage, Craft said.
First to reach the wreckage of the Stinson were Tom West of Poca and Dennis Jones, Ralph Davis and Charles Boggens all of Nitro, who were on the highway a short distance away.
They plunged through the underbrush and then waded into the muddy water to pull the bodies of MURPHY and FRAME from the wreckage.
"We thought that MURPHY was possibly still alive when we got him out," Davis said. "But he couldn't have lived more than a few moments afterward."
CLARK, who had flown a "total of more than 12,000 hours, I'm sure," Col. Stark said, was one of the best pilots of small craft in the Kanawha valley, Stark commented. He and CLARK had known each other for many years, and Stark said that he had given CLARK instruction in flying many years ago.
CLARK, ironically, had taught MURPHY to fly. CLARK had operated Clark field on the Winfield road several years. He was one of the fliers who operated from old Wertz field at Institute, and had flown in this vicinity since about 1930. At one time he operated a seaplane base, the first in this area, on the Kanawha river, and during the last war he taught flying under government contract.
A watch of FRAME'S wrist had stopped at 5:50 p.m. indicating the time of the wreck, but the watch on the arm of KIRBY was still running hours after the accident.
All five bodies were mangled, that of FRAME so badly that identification was almost impossible for a time.
Charleston Daily Mail West Virginia 1952-06-07
Jack was married to Mary K. Cutlip.
They were married on May 3, 1946 in Charleston, WV.
He was 24 and she was 22.
When she remarried in 1958, she was listed as divorced, but she and Jack were married when he passed away.
Lived on Summers Avenue, South Charleston, WV
Occupation: Insurance Salesman
Cause of Death: Airplane Crash at 5:50 pm on June 6, 1952
The Stinson landed nose first in about two feet of water and soft mud.
Bodies of MURPHY and FRAME were taken from the plane in the water shortly after the crash, but RAHALL'S body remained in the water and wreckage until 12:30 a.m. when it became known that he had been a passenger in the plane.
Trooper Lawrence Craft said that MURPHY had flown to Toledo several days ago to purchase a new car, and had left one of his passengers there to drive the car back. He, RAHALL and FRAME had spent the night in Columbus and were en route back to Charleston when the crash happened.
It was not known that RAHALL was a passenger until the fourth man, identified as Dick Shuck, an employe of MURPHY, arrived here with the new car about midnight and said that RAHALL had been with the others when the plane took off from Columbus.
The plane was partially dragged from the water and RAHALL'S body was found in the wreckage, Craft said.
First to reach the wreckage of the Stinson were Tom West of Poca and Dennis Jones, Ralph Davis and Charles Boggens all of Nitro, who were on the highway a short distance away.
They plunged through the underbrush and then waded into the muddy water to pull the bodies of MURPHY and FRAME from the wreckage.
"We thought that MURPHY was possibly still alive when we got him out," Davis said. "But he couldn't have lived more than a few moments afterward."
CLARK, who had flown a "total of more than 12,000 hours, I'm sure," Col. Stark said, was one of the best pilots of small craft in the Kanawha valley, Stark commented. He and CLARK had known each other for many years, and Stark said that he had given CLARK instruction in flying many years ago.
CLARK, ironically, had taught MURPHY to fly. CLARK had operated Clark field on the Winfield road several years. He was one of the fliers who operated from old Wertz field at Institute, and had flown in this vicinity since about 1930. At one time he operated a seaplane base, the first in this area, on the Kanawha river, and during the last war he taught flying under government contract.
A watch of FRAME'S wrist had stopped at 5:50 p.m. indicating the time of the wreck, but the watch on the arm of KIRBY was still running hours after the accident.
All five bodies were mangled, that of FRAME so badly that identification was almost impossible for a time.
Charleston Daily Mail West Virginia 1952-06-07
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