Stuber, Stanley E. died 1950
STUBER, POPE, KOTH, KLAIBER, SASS
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Date: 6/8/2009 at 20:47:23
Clayton County Register, 16 Mar. 1950.
Major Stanley E. Stuber, 28, son of Mrs. Roy Koth of St. Olaf, was killed last Saturday afternoon when his C-47 twin engine Douglass airplane exploded near Hope, Ark.
Three crew members parachuted to safety when Major Stuber ordered them to bail out when the plane caught fire. The big ship exploded, however, before he could get out himself.
The men were on a flight from their base at Fairfield Suison Airbase in California to Barkesdale Airforce Base, Louisiana.
The body was brought to the Schultz funeral home at Monona yesterday, escorted by Captain Shearer of the Fairfield Suison Airbase. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Monona Lutheran church with burial in the Lutheran cemetery there.
Survivors are: his wife, Marjorie Stuber, and four-year-old daughter Connie Jo of Fairfield, Calif.; his mother, Mrs. Roy Koth, and step-father, Roy Koth, of St. Olaf; a brother, M/Sgt Harold E. Stuber, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; two half-sisters, Miss Vivian Stuber, Ft. Wayne, and Mrs. Irene Klaiber, Denver, Colo.; and his grandparents, Mrs. Minnie Sass, McGregor, and Mrs. John G. Stuber, Ft. Wayne.
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Rites for Major Stuber Are Held at Monona
Monona- Military services for Major Stanley Stuber, killed March 11 in a plane crash at Hope, Ark., were held Friday in St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church here. Burial was in the Lutheran cemetery.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. William Stuber, he was born at McGregor, but grew up in Monona. He was married April 24, 1943 to Marjorie Pope of Monona at Burbank, Calif. He had been a pilot for 13 months and received his major's commission in August, 1949. A veteran of World War II, he fought in North Africa and Italy. In addition to his wife and daughter, Connie Jo, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Roy Koth, of Elkader, and a brother, Harold, of Texas.
~Oelwein Daily Register, March 18, 1950
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