Robert Anthony “Bobby” Harris Jr.

Birth: 5 Aug 1950
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Death: 14 Nov 1970 (aged 20)
Kenova, Wayne County, West Virginia, USA
Burial: Gate of Heaven Cemetery

Montgomery, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Plot: Section 8 Lot 636 Grave 6
Memorial ID: 34311516 View Source

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College Football Player, Plane Crash Victim. He was a quarterback for Marshall in 1970, and was on the chartered plane (and also started the East Carolina game) when it crashed at Tri-State Airport on November 14, 1970. The crash was the worst in American sports history.

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Robert A. Harris

1924–2015
Betty Jane Kroger Harris

1926–2013

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34311516/robert_anthony-harris: accessed ), memorial page for Robert Anthony “Bobby” Harris Jr. (5 Aug 1950–14 Nov 1970), Find a Grave Memorial ID 34311516, citing Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Montgomery, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Gladys Turner Dinkeloo (contributor 46891301).

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Bobby Harris front row, 3rd L-R. Mark Andrews and Jack Repasy (also victims of the Marshall Plane Crash) also in back row 2nd and last. All 3 friends and graduates of Archbishop Moeller High School.

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