Jefferson City Post-Tribune, January 12, 1943:
Lieut. Robert C. Markway, son of Police Chief and Mrs. Ben Markway, 1225 Moreland Ave., was instantly killed at 11:30 yesterday when an army B-25 plane crashed in the Central Colorado plains.
A telegram announcing his death was received by Mr. and Mrs. Markwy this morning. It is the policy of the army and navy not to release the names of the victims until after the nearest kin has been notified. Particulars are rarely given out. It was learned, however, that wreckage of the plane was strewn over a wide area twenty-four miles northeast of Colorado Springs. A rescue crew was guided to the spot by a farmer who saw the craft fall. The plane burst into flames. Some of the bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage. Six men were in the plane. The telegram was received from Peterson Field where Markway had been stationed. Prior to being sent to Colorado he was stationed at Baker's Field and Sacramento, Calif.
The body is expected to arrive here tomorrow and the funeral will probably take place Friday morning from the Immaculate Conception Church of which he was a lifelong member. The body will be taken to the Thorpe J. Gordon Funeral home immediately upon its arrival.
Eight days after he was commissioned a second lieutenant and navigator he was given a furlough arriving here Dec 20 and spending two weeks with his parents. He left here Jan. 3 and the family had a letter from him yesterday written the day before his death.
Young Markway was born in Jefferson City June 27, 1920. He attended Immaculate Conception school to the tenth grade and then went to St. Peters High school. He was a letterman on the football team during his Junior and Senior years. Upon leaving St. Peters he attended Junior College. While attending grade school and later high school he carried the Post-Tribune and later worked in the mail room of the News and Tribune. After his graduation there he obtained a position in the state highway department which he held until he enlisted in the army air corps Jan. 3, 1942. He first sought to be a pilot but later changed to navigator and won his wings just a month before his death.
He was a member of the young men's Sodality of the I.C. Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Beta Sigmas.
Besides his parents he is survived by one brother, Leroy, at the School of Mines in Rolla and one sister, Rose Mary at home.
Lieut. Robert C. Markway, son of Police Chief and Mrs. Ben Markway, 1225 Moreland Ave., was instantly killed at 11:30 yesterday when an army B-25 plane crashed in the Central Colorado plains.
A telegram announcing his death was received by Mr. and Mrs. Markwy this morning. It is the policy of the army and navy not to release the names of the victims until after the nearest kin has been notified. Particulars are rarely given out. It was learned, however, that wreckage of the plane was strewn over a wide area twenty-four miles northeast of Colorado Springs. A rescue crew was guided to the spot by a farmer who saw the craft fall. The plane burst into flames. Some of the bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage. Six men were in the plane. The telegram was received from Peterson Field where Markway had been stationed. Prior to being sent to Colorado he was stationed at Baker's Field and Sacramento, Calif.
The body is expected to arrive here tomorrow and the funeral will probably take place Friday morning from the Immaculate Conception Church of which he was a lifelong member. The body will be taken to the Thorpe J. Gordon Funeral home immediately upon its arrival.
Eight days after he was commissioned a second lieutenant and navigator he was given a furlough arriving here Dec 20 and spending two weeks with his parents. He left here Jan. 3 and the family had a letter from him yesterday written the day before his death.
Young Markway was born in Jefferson City June 27, 1920. He attended Immaculate Conception school to the tenth grade and then went to St. Peters High school. He was a letterman on the football team during his Junior and Senior years. Upon leaving St. Peters he attended Junior College. While attending grade school and later high school he carried the Post-Tribune and later worked in the mail room of the News and Tribune. After his graduation there he obtained a position in the state highway department which he held until he enlisted in the army air corps Jan. 3, 1942. He first sought to be a pilot but later changed to navigator and won his wings just a month before his death.
He was a member of the young men's Sodality of the I.C. Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Beta Sigmas.
Besides his parents he is survived by one brother, Leroy, at the School of Mines in Rolla and one sister, Rose Mary at home.
Jefferson City Post-Tribune, January 12, 1943:
Lieut. Robert C. Markway, son of Police Chief and Mrs. Ben Markway, 1225 Moreland Ave., was instantly killed at 11:30 yesterday when an army B-25 plane crashed in the Central Colorado plains.
A telegram announcing his death was received by Mr. and Mrs. Markwy this morning. It is the policy of the army and navy not to release the names of the victims until after the nearest kin has been notified. Particulars are rarely given out. It was learned, however, that wreckage of the plane was strewn over a wide area twenty-four miles northeast of Colorado Springs. A rescue crew was guided to the spot by a farmer who saw the craft fall. The plane burst into flames. Some of the bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage. Six men were in the plane. The telegram was received from Peterson Field where Markway had been stationed. Prior to being sent to Colorado he was stationed at Baker's Field and Sacramento, Calif.
The body is expected to arrive here tomorrow and the funeral will probably take place Friday morning from the Immaculate Conception Church of which he was a lifelong member. The body will be taken to the Thorpe J. Gordon Funeral home immediately upon its arrival.
Eight days after he was commissioned a second lieutenant and navigator he was given a furlough arriving here Dec 20 and spending two weeks with his parents. He left here Jan. 3 and the family had a letter from him yesterday written the day before his death.
Young Markway was born in Jefferson City June 27, 1920. He attended Immaculate Conception school to the tenth grade and then went to St. Peters High school. He was a letterman on the football team during his Junior and Senior years. Upon leaving St. Peters he attended Junior College. While attending grade school and later high school he carried the Post-Tribune and later worked in the mail room of the News and Tribune. After his graduation there he obtained a position in the state highway department which he held until he enlisted in the army air corps Jan. 3, 1942. He first sought to be a pilot but later changed to navigator and won his wings just a month before his death.
He was a member of the young men's Sodality of the I.C. Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Beta Sigmas.
Besides his parents he is survived by one brother, Leroy, at the School of Mines in Rolla and one sister, Rose Mary at home.
Lieut. Robert C. Markway, son of Police Chief and Mrs. Ben Markway, 1225 Moreland Ave., was instantly killed at 11:30 yesterday when an army B-25 plane crashed in the Central Colorado plains.
A telegram announcing his death was received by Mr. and Mrs. Markwy this morning. It is the policy of the army and navy not to release the names of the victims until after the nearest kin has been notified. Particulars are rarely given out. It was learned, however, that wreckage of the plane was strewn over a wide area twenty-four miles northeast of Colorado Springs. A rescue crew was guided to the spot by a farmer who saw the craft fall. The plane burst into flames. Some of the bodies were thrown clear of the wreckage. Six men were in the plane. The telegram was received from Peterson Field where Markway had been stationed. Prior to being sent to Colorado he was stationed at Baker's Field and Sacramento, Calif.
The body is expected to arrive here tomorrow and the funeral will probably take place Friday morning from the Immaculate Conception Church of which he was a lifelong member. The body will be taken to the Thorpe J. Gordon Funeral home immediately upon its arrival.
Eight days after he was commissioned a second lieutenant and navigator he was given a furlough arriving here Dec 20 and spending two weeks with his parents. He left here Jan. 3 and the family had a letter from him yesterday written the day before his death.
Young Markway was born in Jefferson City June 27, 1920. He attended Immaculate Conception school to the tenth grade and then went to St. Peters High school. He was a letterman on the football team during his Junior and Senior years. Upon leaving St. Peters he attended Junior College. While attending grade school and later high school he carried the Post-Tribune and later worked in the mail room of the News and Tribune. After his graduation there he obtained a position in the state highway department which he held until he enlisted in the army air corps Jan. 3, 1942. He first sought to be a pilot but later changed to navigator and won his wings just a month before his death.
He was a member of the young men's Sodality of the I.C. Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Beta Sigmas.
Besides his parents he is survived by one brother, Leroy, at the School of Mines in Rolla and one sister, Rose Mary at home.
