Carl Cecil Adler, 1908-1967

ADLER, ASHLEY

Posted By: Peggy Mayberry Powell (email)
Date: 10/12/2018 at 16:41:02

Carl Cecil Adler, 1908-1967
Miss Eleanor Ashley, 1939-1967

The Moville Record or Sioux City Journal

Funeral services held for plane crash victims

Two experienced airplane pilots of Sioux City died in the wreckage of a two-engine plane Wednesday night, Jan. 25 about 400 yards from the airport.

Carl Cecil Adler, 58, 2715 Vine Ave., and his widow’s niece, Miss Eleanor Ashley, 27, of Anthon, were the victims. Their bodies were found in the plane’s wreckage Thursday afternoon by a farmer.

There were no eye-witnesses to the crash and no one heard anything. However, a heavy rain squall was reported at the site around 11 p.m. Wednesday, about the time Mr. Adler and Miss Ashley were scheduled to arrive at the Bloomington airport with radio components transported from Fort Dodge, Iowa to the Radio Corporation of America plant there.

Services for Miss Ashley were held at 2:30 pm. Sunday at the Methodist Church of Anthon. The Rev. John Wallace officiated. Burial was made in Oak Hill Cemetery at Anthon under direction of the Walters Funeral Home of Anthon.

Pallbearers were Bruce and William Fey and Edward, William, Charles and Arthur Ashley

Eleanor Ashley was born June 12, 1939 at Anthon. She was graduated from Anthon High School in 1957 and from Wayne Nebr. State College in 1961. She was art teacher at Remsen-Union and Onawa, Iowa schools before devoting full time to teaching flying. She had taken flight instruction at Rickenbacker Airport in North Sioux City and had qualified for pilot instructor commercial and multi-engine flying.

Miss Ashley’s survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ashley of Anthon; two sisters, Mrs. Bendt (Margaret) Brodersen of Scottsbluff, Nebr., and Laura Ashley, a student at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion; three brothers, Michael of Pierson and Marion and Barry at home; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ashley of Anthon and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rathsack of Moville.

Funeral services for Carl Adler were held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic church at Anthon. Rev. A. Conlon officiated. Burial was made in St. Joseph Catholic cemetery at Anthon.

Pallbearers were Edward, William, Charles and Arthur Ashley and William and Bruce Fey.

Mr. Adler’s survivors include the widow, Betty; two daughters, Mrs. Betty Dykshorn and Mrs. Martha Cantrell, both of Sioux City; a son, Max C. Adler dispatcher of Ozark airlines in Springfield, Mo.; his mother, Addie Adler of Anthon; a sister, Mrs. Raphael Curtin of Anthon; a brother, Kenneth Adler of Anthon and eight grandchildren.

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Findagrave.com: gave year of birth and death for Miss Eleanor Ashley

Findagrave.com : gives date of birth and plus place of death for Carl Cecil Adler

The Anthon Herald, 2 February 1967, page 1: Funeral services for Carl Cecil Adler, 58, of Sioux City who died in a plane crash near Bloomington, Indiana, Wednesday night, January 25, 1967, were held Monday morning at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anthon with Rev. A. Conlon officiating. Burial was in St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery at Anthon. Pallbearers were Edward, William, Charles and Arthur Ashley, William and Bruce Fey. Mr. Adler was born October 18, 1908, in Sioux City. He married Betty Ashley February 8, 1932, at Anthon. They farmed near Anthon until 1945. They lived in Ida Grove from 1945 to 1951, at Sheldon from 1951 to 1961, and from 1961 to 1964 at Clear Lake where Mr. Adler was a pilot for Winnebago Industries of Forest City, Iowa. They moved to Sioux City in 1964 where he was employed as a pilot for Duling Optical Company. Mr. Adler had been a commercial pilot for nearly forty years, and had logged 12,000 hours of flying time. Survivors include the widow, two daughters, Mrs. Betty Dykshorn and Mrs. Martha Cantrell, both of Sioux City, one son, Max C. Adler, a dispatcher at Ozark Airlines in Springfield, Missouri; his mother, Mrs. Addie Adler of Anthon, one sister, Mrs. Raphael Curtin of Anthon, one brother, Kenneth Adler of Anthon and eight grandchildren.