|  |  |
|
| | |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, March 5, 1958 June 18, 1940 ~ March 1, 1958 Janice Kauger Killed in Plane Disaster Near Colony Home Three Others Lost As Craft Fails Takeoff Janice Kauger, 17-year-old Colony highschool honor student, and her three male companions, students at Southwestern State college, lost their lives when their 4-passenger Piper Tri-Pacer crashed and burned south of Colony at 4:41 p.m. Saturday. The bodies were burned beyond recognition and it was several hours before all of the victims could be identified. Janice was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny R. Kauger, prominent Colony family. The young men were identified as Jimmy Tisdal, 21-year-old son of Dr. W.C. Tisdal, 21-year-old son of Dr. W.C. Tisdal, Clinton; Richardson Jackson, 19, Clinton, and Glen Castle, 19, Altus. The plane belonged to Dr. Tisdal who was the pilot. The following account of the tragedy was told to a Herald reporter by Colony relatives and friends of Janice. Young Castle visited Miss Kauger in the Kauger home. Mrs. Kauger said she left the two studying in the living room while she went to a near-by church. When she returned Janice and Glen had left. Glen's car was found parked and locked beside the blacktop road near a vacant farm house 1 ½ miles south of Colony. Lamont Vetch, Colony high school principal, said he arrived at the scene of the accident about 20 minutes after the crash. He was in the yard at his home when the plane circled twice over town and flew south, indicating that by prearrangement Janice and her escort were to meet Tisdal and Jackson south of town. Jerry Abbott and F.W. Pendleton, highway patrolman, and Jack Marshan, CAA investigator, found footprints leading to the Edwin Frantz pasture east of the highway. Indications were that after landing, the pilot made more than one attempt to take off. The plane crashed in a 100-foot deep canyon, coming to rest on a ledge about half way down the east bank. The plane was headed north and the right wing was crumpled. The framework of the plane was intact and the bodies were all huddled in the craft. The four occupants had traveled less that a half mile, when the crash came. Dr. C.B. Sullivan, family physician for many years, was called to Colony to treat Mrs. Kauger for a state of shock. Janice Kay was born June 18, 1940, in the Carnegie hospital. She had lived in Colony all of her life. She would have graduated in May. "Janice's death is a terrible loss to the school," Principal Vesch said. She was a straight A Student, member of the Oklahoma Honor Society, county officer in 4-H, participated in school plays on the basketball and soft hall teams. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Services were at 2 p.m. Monday in the highschool auditorium. Conducting the rites were Dr. Donald Hamm, Weatherford, and Bro. Walter Teal. Burial was in Fairview cemetery. Survivors include the parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Kauger, Colony; a sister, Mrs. Yvonne Reynolds, Weatherford, and her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Bottom, Colony. |
This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma CemeteriesThe information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.