From the Dallas Morning News, Tuesday, June 4, 1935, Sec. 1, p. 9:
Fort Worth, Texas, June 3 -- Funeral services for Dr. James Graham Estes, college professor and student flyer, who died in the crash of his private plane at the Raleigh (N.C.) airport Saturday, will be held in Fort Worth Tuesday. Faculty members of Texas Christian University, where he taught mathematics, will bear the body to its grave. Dr. E. M. Waits, university president, will officiate.
Dr. Estes, who was born in Fort Worth, received his doctor's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in aeronautical engineering after being graduated from Texas Christian University in 1924. He took up flying at the local airport. When he was killed he was forwarding his flying experience this summer in preparation for teaching aeronautics and physics at North Carolina State College at Raleigh.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Estes; two sisters and two brothers.
From the Dallas Morning News, Tuesday, June 4, 1935, Sec. 1, p. 9:
Fort Worth, Texas, June 3 -- Funeral services for Dr. James Graham Estes, college professor and student flyer, who died in the crash of his private plane at the Raleigh (N.C.) airport Saturday, will be held in Fort Worth Tuesday. Faculty members of Texas Christian University, where he taught mathematics, will bear the body to its grave. Dr. E. M. Waits, university president, will officiate.
Dr. Estes, who was born in Fort Worth, received his doctor's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in aeronautical engineering after being graduated from Texas Christian University in 1924. He took up flying at the local airport. When he was killed he was forwarding his flying experience this summer in preparation for teaching aeronautics and physics at North Carolina State College at Raleigh.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Estes; two sisters and two brothers.
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