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Notes for Forrest Dean BREYFOGLE

Contributor writes:

The Bennington Evening Banner
Bennington, Vermont, Tuesday July 10, 1956

History's Worst Air Disaster
Shattered Homes and Careers

By Bill Becker
Associated Press Reporter

For the 128 victims of history's greatest airline catastrophe, death came swiftly in the Grand Canyon of Arizona.

But it will be a lingering sorrow for at least twice that many kin, including some 150 children left fatherless, motherless or both.

Whether from California, New Jersey, Ohio or Missouri, most of the passengers aboard the colliding Trans World and United airliners June 30 had growing families broken asunder in a few shattering seconds,

To the breaking of dozens of homes can be added the loss of brilliant careers.

The two planes bore a cross section of the American public: industrial tycoons, a Wall Street broker, a young mathematical wizard, a scholarship winning stewardess, a farm agent, a service station operator, engineers, lawyers, Hucksters, housewives and eager kids getting the trip as a summer reward.

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All these were among the 70 persons on the TWA Super Constellation. Up front sat Capt. Jack Gandy, 41, Mission, Kan., father of four; his copilot Jim Ritner, 31 Fairmont, MO., father of three; and two flight engineers, Forrest Breyfogle, 37, Kansas City, and Harry H. Allen, of Los Angeles, each twice a dad.

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Source: Ancestry.com, Newspaper Archive

FORREST BREYFOGLE RITES

Memorial Services Held For T. W. A. Flight Engineer

About 250 persons attended a memorial service yesterday for Forrest Dean Breyfogle, 37, flight engineer on the T. W. A. airliner that, crashed in the Grand Canyon.

The service was held at the Gladstone Methodist church in Kansas City North, and was conducted by the Rev. R. A. Boone, pastor at the church. The Breyfogle home is at 4413 North Grand avenue.

Mr. Boone read the Twenty-third and Forty-sixth Psalms and passages from the 15th Chapter of First Corinthians.

"In God's greatness there is room for many patterns and events which we cannot understand at present, though through our faith we shall come to understand," Mr. Boone said.

SOURCE: The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO July 8, 1956

CONTRIBUTOR WRITES:

Forrest was married and had two adopted children. he grew up in Alton, Illinois, son of Howard Breyfogle and were from the Rueban branch.

SOURCE: Letter dated December 27, 2006 Wanetta Breyfogle

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