Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Joe Boone

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The Hominy News
Vol. XXIV, Number 14
Hominy, Osage County, Oklahoma
Friday, Feb. 15, 1929
Front page, Col.4

Joe Boone, Aviator Killed at Fairfax
Plane in Which Pilot and student Flying Crashes

Joe Boone, 21 years old of Cushing and H. L. Helton, 35 years old Fairfax 
garage owner, were killed when the plane in which they were flying crashed 
into a canyon. 10 miles west of Fairfax at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 13.

Witnesses said that the motor stalled at 1,000 feet and the ship went into 
a tall spin.  Both bodies were badly mangled and the plane was demolished.

Helton is survived by a widow and three children.  Boone was not married.  
His parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Boone of Cushing.

During the last few months Boone had been teaching flying to a number of 
citizens in Hominy, Stillwater, Cushing and Fairfax.  Helton was one of 10 
in his present classes.

Young Boone and his parents resided in Hominy several years ago and he was 
a student in the city schools here.

A year ago he was a sophomore at the A. and M. college at Stillwater and 
quit school to take up flying at the Stillwater airport.  He was taught by 
R. P. Shannon, a commercial pilot, and several months ago bought Shannan's 
Swallow biplane and took it to Cushing.

Last week Boone proposed to the Cushing chamber of commerce that I finance 
him in a flying school to be established there.  A committee had been 
appointed to investigate Boone's proposition.

He was a well known state flyer and was one of the principal boosters for 
the Cushing airport, the management of which, it was said Wednesday, 
possibly was to go to him at its completion. 

Helton had been taking instruction for six weeks and had approximately four 
flying hours to his credit.

Mrs. T. J. Colley and Mrs. W. E. Schwaba went to Cushing Thursday to be 
with the stricken family of the young aviator.
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