Edmund "Mike" Matucha 1902-1968

MATUCHA, FISHER, STALL

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 9/25/2021 at 07:43:28

16 May 1968 - The Tipton Conservative

Edmund "Mike" Matucha died at Northridge, Calif. May 1, following an illness of several months.

He was born at Tipton Feb. 19, 1902, attended Tipton schools and graduated from high school in 1920. He graduated from the Army Air Force school at Kelley Field, Tex. in 1922 with the rank of Second Lieutenant and was the youngest licensed commercial pilot at that time in the U.S.

He later flew the first scheduled air mail from Chicago to Kansas City May 12, 1926 for National Air Transport, which later merged with United Air Lines. He went on to become one of the first 10 pilots to reach a million miles in the air.

He was with American Air Lines for the last 25 years, working as a flight instructor.

His parents, Yaro Matucha and Bertha Matucha Wasley preceded him in death. Surviving are his wife, Darlyne of Nashville, Tenn. and brothers and sisters, Genevieve Matucha, Tarzana, Calif.; John, San Francisco; Kenneth (Tad), Tonganoxie, Kan.; Bernadine Stall, Phoenix, Ariz.; Raymond, Dearborn, Mich.; Harold, Drayton Plains, Mich. and Bertha Mae Fisher, Berwyn, Ill.

Interment was at Forest Lawn cemetery, Glendale, Calif.