Edward James Hartley, Jr. (1977)

BEAARD, HARTLEY, PAULETTI, STEILEN, STEWART

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/10/2007 at 16:41:52

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 22, 1977

E. J. HARTLEY, JR., Winterset

E. J. Hartley, Jr., 41, a postal carrier in his hometown of Winterset for eleven yeas, was killed last Friday, June 17, 1977, in a plane crash at the Winterset-Madison County Airport.

Hartley was flying a Morris Cassutt Racer, a single wing, one passenger craft built in 1971, which he bought in May 1976.

The plane was built in Virginia and Hartley had logged about 48 hours in the air with it at the time of the crash. He was an experienced pilot, having owned other aircraft, and served as an aircraft repairman with the military.

The accident occurred about 7 p.m. Hartley was apparently flying at an altitude of about 1,000 feet when the craft went into a spiral and impacted with the engine running in a cornfield about 200 yards west of the runway, not far from the airport hangers. The plane did not burn. Hartley was killed instantly.

Hartley had been a postal carrier in Winterset since July 16, 1966.

Funeral services were conducted Monday, June 20, at 10 a.m. from St. Joseph Catholic Church in Winterset. Rosary was said Sunday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. from Collins Funeral Home.

Officiating at the services was Father John Cunningham. Burial was made at the Winterset Cemetery.

Edward James Hartley, Jr., was born July 20, 1935, in Winterset, the son of Edward J. and Adah Marie Stewart Hartley. He served in the U. S. Army and was married October 8, 1960, to Rae Ann Beard in Winterset. She survives her husband.

Other survivors include two sons, Brian Edward, 15, and Christopher Scott, 14; his mother and two sisters, Mrs. James (Mary Catherine) Pauletti of Orion, Illinois, and Mrs. Charles (Agnes Diane) Steilen of Spokane, Washington.

Mr. Hartley was preceded in death by his father. He was a member of the Winterset V.F.W. and a former director of the Winterset Airport Authority.

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