s/o Dwight Dennis & Mary Florence (Cook) Hopkins∼Services for Clarence Russell "Skip" Hopkins, general manager of Snow Aeronautical Company of Olney were held at St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
Hopkins, 42, was killed instantly when the S2A crop duster plane he was flying in a demonstration crashed near the Municipal Airoprot of Lemesa.
Hopkins was ferrying the S-2A manufactured by Snow Aeronautical to Artesia, New Mexico to deliver to a customer there. He stopped at Lamesa to give a demonstration flight before prospective customers.
A story int he Lamesa Daily Reporter said Ralph Gary, Lamesa aerial service operator. employe of Melvin Fiedler were watching the craft while in operation above the airport and witnessed the crash.
The plane was flying level and banked for a left turn, then smashed nose first into the ground. The plane apparently stalled.
He attended Brown University at Province, Rhode Island.
He married Miss Mary Geneva Jackson at Texarkansa, Texas on 17 June 1954.
Survived by his wife; one daughter - Karen; one son - Curtis; four brothers; four sisters who live in Massachusetts.
Hopkins had lived in Altus, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma and Harlingen where he became associated with Leland Snow in Snow Aeronautical Company. He came to Olney in January 1958, when the firm moved from Harlingen to Olney Municipal Airport.
He was a veteran of the US Air Force during World War II and belonged to St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
The Olney Enterprise
Olney, Young County, Texas
23 June 1960
Hopkins, 42, was killed instantly when the S2A crop duster plane he was flying in a demonstration crashed near the Municipal Airoprot of Lemesa.
Hopkins was ferrying the S-2A manufactured by Snow Aeronautical to Artesia, New Mexico to deliver to a customer there. He stopped at Lamesa to give a demonstration flight before prospective customers.
A story int he Lamesa Daily Reporter said Ralph Gary, Lamesa aerial service operator. employe of Melvin Fiedler were watching the craft while in operation above the airport and witnessed the crash.
The plane was flying level and banked for a left turn, then smashed nose first into the ground. The plane apparently stalled.
He attended Brown University at Province, Rhode Island.
He married Miss Mary Geneva Jackson at Texarkansa, Texas on 17 June 1954.
Survived by his wife; one daughter - Karen; one son - Curtis; four brothers; four sisters who live in Massachusetts.
Hopkins had lived in Altus, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma and Harlingen where he became associated with Leland Snow in Snow Aeronautical Company. He came to Olney in January 1958, when the firm moved from Harlingen to Olney Municipal Airport.
He was a veteran of the US Air Force during World War II and belonged to St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
The Olney Enterprise
Olney, Young County, Texas
23 June 1960
s/o Dwight Dennis & Mary Florence (Cook) Hopkins∼Services for Clarence Russell "Skip" Hopkins, general manager of Snow Aeronautical Company of Olney were held at St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
Hopkins, 42, was killed instantly when the S2A crop duster plane he was flying in a demonstration crashed near the Municipal Airoprot of Lemesa.
Hopkins was ferrying the S-2A manufactured by Snow Aeronautical to Artesia, New Mexico to deliver to a customer there. He stopped at Lamesa to give a demonstration flight before prospective customers.
A story int he Lamesa Daily Reporter said Ralph Gary, Lamesa aerial service operator. employe of Melvin Fiedler were watching the craft while in operation above the airport and witnessed the crash.
The plane was flying level and banked for a left turn, then smashed nose first into the ground. The plane apparently stalled.
He attended Brown University at Province, Rhode Island.
He married Miss Mary Geneva Jackson at Texarkansa, Texas on 17 June 1954.
Survived by his wife; one daughter - Karen; one son - Curtis; four brothers; four sisters who live in Massachusetts.
Hopkins had lived in Altus, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma and Harlingen where he became associated with Leland Snow in Snow Aeronautical Company. He came to Olney in January 1958, when the firm moved from Harlingen to Olney Municipal Airport.
He was a veteran of the US Air Force during World War II and belonged to St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
The Olney Enterprise
Olney, Young County, Texas
23 June 1960
Hopkins, 42, was killed instantly when the S2A crop duster plane he was flying in a demonstration crashed near the Municipal Airoprot of Lemesa.
Hopkins was ferrying the S-2A manufactured by Snow Aeronautical to Artesia, New Mexico to deliver to a customer there. He stopped at Lamesa to give a demonstration flight before prospective customers.
A story int he Lamesa Daily Reporter said Ralph Gary, Lamesa aerial service operator. employe of Melvin Fiedler were watching the craft while in operation above the airport and witnessed the crash.
The plane was flying level and banked for a left turn, then smashed nose first into the ground. The plane apparently stalled.
He attended Brown University at Province, Rhode Island.
He married Miss Mary Geneva Jackson at Texarkansa, Texas on 17 June 1954.
Survived by his wife; one daughter - Karen; one son - Curtis; four brothers; four sisters who live in Massachusetts.
Hopkins had lived in Altus, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma and Harlingen where he became associated with Leland Snow in Snow Aeronautical Company. He came to Olney in January 1958, when the firm moved from Harlingen to Olney Municipal Airport.
He was a veteran of the US Air Force during World War II and belonged to St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
The Olney Enterprise
Olney, Young County, Texas
23 June 1960
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
