♥꧁⁀✿ William Jay Monahan ✿⁀꧂♥

༺✿ڰۣڿ✿༻ Thanks to Louise Keiser, The Blithe Spirit for transferring this memorial!!༺✿ڰۣڿ✿༻

Thoughts from Bill's mom:

Mr. Bill - If ever honor had a child he is that child. Firm and upright in character, compassionate, charitable, and helpful to those in need, a loving husband and father, brother and son, he will never leave us.

Dear Pippa, my springtime girl. A true friend from the beginning, we shall be to the end. Capable, courageous and loving. She is a gift to me from Mr. Bill. (Bill's wife)

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Guard jet crashes, killing city lawyer

A Richmond lawyer who was also a pilot in the Virginia Air National Guard died when his jet crashed along the North Carolina coast.

William Jay Monahan, a partner in the firm of Monahan and Sager and a major in the air guard, was flying a single-seat Vought A-7D on a routine training mission when the plance went down about 20 miles north of Cape Hatteras.

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Major Monahan died during a routine training mission with the Virginia Air National Guard while piloting a single-seat A-7D fighter-bomber which crashed into the water 20 miles north of Cape Hatteras, NC. He had accumulated over 3700 hours of flying time in various aircraft at the time.

A native of Blackstone, he earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering in 1963 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.

He then joined the Air Force, earned his pilot's wings in 1964 and left the service in 1969. He joined the Air National Guard shortly after and earned a law degree from College of William & Mary in June 1972.

He was rated a command pilot and served as chief of command post for the Guard's 192nd Tactical Fight Group.

Nineteen days before the plane crash he had filed the paperwork for the SHORT CHASER, a device for detecting short circuits in wiring systems. The Trademark was later considered abandoned in 1983 due to "incomplete response" from him.

Information provided by [email protected]

---Son of William John Monahan and Dorolyn June Zilles Monahan. Husband of Phyllis Lehn Monahan and father of a son, William Joseph Monahan.

Age 41, died in an accidental plane crash at 0935 hours. North Carolina death certificate specifies Pamlico Sound, Stumpy Point AF Range, Dare County, NC. His profession was a Lawyer. He was a partner in the firm of Monahan and Sager and a major in the air national guard. Burial on 27.Feb.1982, Lakeview.