Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Hibbard, Horace Ernest  'Ace' 1988
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Independent Enterprise 12-14-1988
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Wednesday, December 14, 1988

HORACE ERNEST "ACE" HIBBARD

Horace Ernest "Ace" Hibbard, 81, Payette, died Dec. 5, 1988, at home of 
natural causes. Services were at 2 p.m. Dec 9 at Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, 
Payette. Bishop Bevan Nelson of the Payette First Ward of the Church of Jesus 
Christ of Latter-day Saints officiated. Burial and fly-by followed at 
Riverside Cemetery, Payette.

He was born April 30, 1907, at Garden City, Mo. As a boy he moved to 
California where he was raised and educated. He graduated from Lodi High 
School in 1925. He was involved in aviation as a very young man, and was the 
forth man in California to receive an instructors permit. He flew in a cross 
country air race in 1930, he lost his propeller over Missouri and landed in a 
corn field to retrieve it. During World War II he was the commander of Thunder 
Bird II, a fighter pilot training base at Phoenix, Ariz. After the war he 
managed an air field at Auburn, Calif. until 1964. He then moved to Nevada, 
Oregon, and then to Payette. He continued to work in aviation throughout his 
life. He was a crop duster spray pilot for Farmers Supply Co-op of Ontario 
until in his 70's. His last flight took place on January 1985. At the age of 
77 he logged his final flying hours at 14,791. He married Velda Nelson Dec. 
27, 1979 at Winnemucca. He was a member of the Experimental Aircraft 
Association of Payette. He enjoyed reading, and building experimental aircraft.

Survivors include his wife, Velda of Payette; by a previous marriage, two 
sons, Norman E. Hibbard of Alameda, Calif., and Richard M. Hibbard of Napa, 
Calif.; one daughter, Patricia L. Day of Stevinson, Calif.; two stepsons, Pete 
Hibbard of Boise, and Kevin Hibbard of New Plymouth; one stepdaughter, Debbie 
Reed of Kingston, Wash., and one brother, James B. Hibbard of Lockeford, 
Calif. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister.

Memorials may be made to a favorite charity, in care of Shaffer-Jensen Memory 
chapel, P.O. Box 730, Payette, 83661.

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