Buncombe County NcArchives Obituaries.....Gentry, Donald Wyatt 1972
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 12-25-1972, SECT. A, P. 8
DONALD WYATT GENTRY

   COURTLAND – A funeral service for Donald Wyatt Gentry, 36, of RFD 1, 
Courtland, was held Friday at 4 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, 
Franklin, by the Rev. C.B. King and the Rev. Richard A. Bergdoll.
   Burial was held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Meadowbrook Church Cemetery, Hot Springs, 
N.C.
   Gentry died Tuesday, Dec. 19 in a plane crash near Newsoms.
   A native of Asheville, N.C., he was a son of Wyatt H. and Mrs. Parasadie 
Edwards Gentry of Hendersonville, N.C. and the husband of Mrs. Lorie Gregory 
Gentry.
   He was employed as a game warden for the state of Virginia.
   Besides his wife and parents, he is survived by four daughters, Linda Carol 
Gentry, Janet Gentry, Donna Gentry and Barbara Jean Gentry; one son Donald Wyatt 
Gentry, Jr., all of Courtland; one sister Mrs. Viola G. Brevard of 
Hendersonville, N.C.; two brothers, Joel Gentry of Jackson, Miss. And David 
Gentry of Chatham.


D.W. GENTRY DIES IN CRASH
THE TIDEWATER NEWS - 12-21-1972, P. A-1
  NEWSOMS - Southampton County Game Warden D.W. Genty, 36, of Courtland and another 
man were killed Tuesday night when their single engine plane crashed into a farm 
pond near here.
  Killed with Gentry in the two passenger plane was game warren Alan C. Flippo, 26, 
of Virginia Beach. Flippo was listed as the pilot.
  According to F.N. Satterly, information officer for the Virginia Commission of 
Game and Inland Fisheries, the last radio report from the plane came at 9:45 p.m.  
Tuesday. Satterly said the craft was on a routine law enforcement mission looking 
for illegal hunters.
  The plane was reported missing late Tuesday night when it failed to return to the 
Portsmouth-Chesapeake Airport.
  Authorities were unable to locate the plane until its wreckage was sighted at 10 a.m. 
Wednesday by the Southampton County sheriff's department and members of the state 
game commission.
  According to Civil Air Patrol Capt. Joseph Sanson, Franklin, three aircraft from 
the C.A.P. in Portsmouth and a helicopter from the State Police took part in the search.
  Ken Zelowski, accident prevention counselor for the Federal Aeronautics Administration 
who investigated the crash, said the plane's engine apparently stopped in flight and 
the plane lost altitude. It glided into a tree along a farm pond on the Ralph L. Porter 
property about a mile from Newsoms.
  The plane split open, dumping Flippo on the bank, hit another tree on the pond's edge, 
burst into flames and came to rest in about a foot of water.
  Gentry's body was found inside the burned out wreckage.
  An on-site observer said the plane came down just 100 yards from a large field where 
it might have been able to land safely.
  The dead men's remains were taken to the Southampton Memorial Hospital morgue.



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