Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Russell, Basil 1930
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Payette Enterprise 1-23-1930
Payette Enterprise 
Payette, Idaho 
Thursday, January 23, 1930
 
CRASH VICTIM PAYETTE BOY    
 
BASIL RUSSELL, PILOT OF ILL FATED PLANE WHO LOST HIS LIFE WITH 15 PASSENGERS 
AT SAN CLEMENTE, CALIF., WAS PAYETTE BOY    
 
Basil Russell, 28 year old pilot who with 15 passengers were killed when his 
plane was wrecked and burned near San Clemente, Calif., the account of which 
has been fully given in the daily papers, was a Payette boy, born on a farm in 
Washoe bottom, where he spent the most of his life.  He was the youngest son 
of Mrs. F. B. Russell of Ontario, who first received the sad news of the fatal 
accident over the radio a few hours after it occurred and soon after the 
information was confirmed by a telegram from his brother.  Besides his mother 
who left Wednesday for Los Angeles to be present at the funeral, his other 
relatives here are, his two uncles A. A. Stroup and S. C. Stroup, his 
grandmother, Mrs. Jacob Stroup of Ontario.
 
Russell's early ambitions let to living and his last visit here was about two 
years ago when he landed in his plane near his old home in Washoe.
 
He recently became a passenger pilot of the Maddox Air Lines in California and 
was returning from Mexico with 15 passengers at the time of the accident.

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