Today, I received such an email regarding the family of Clarence Clay Crawford. Not only did this email prompt me to make a correction, but also to do additional research. That's when I discovered that the death of Clay Crawford made the national news. A search of Newspapers.com found that several newspapers reported the crash of United Airlines Flight 585 outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado on March 3, 1991.
A list of those killed in the crash was published in papers on March 5, 1991.
Clay Crawford and his wife, Jo Crawford, were included in that list of passengers.
Although I couldn't find an obituary for Clay or Jo Crawford on Newspapers.com, I was able to find a transcription of an obituary on Genealogy Bank.
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO) - Tuesday, March 5, 1991
C. CLAY, 72, and JO CRAWFORD, 65, of Colorado Springs, were returning from a month's vacation in Hawaii. Friends said the couple loved to travel and had made annual trips to the islands for the last few years. They had a fondness for the Far East.
He was the president of CF&I Steel in Pueblo until retiring in 1976. He then spent time in Indonesia with International Executive Service Corp., counseling workers there on how to set up and run steel mills.
He earned a degree in metallurgical engineering in 1940 from the Colorado School of Mines and worked for the Army Corps of Engineers from 1940-1946.
He was a member of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo board of directors, a trustee of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, a past chairman of the St. Mary Corwin Hospital Fund in Pueblo, and a member of the Colorado Association of Commerce.
Jo Crawford, described by friends as a "beautiful and vivacious lady," was a volunteer for numerous community groups and raised money for the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and Pioneers Museum.
She also served on the building committee of the First United Methodist Church and was a former member of the board of the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in Pueblo.
Both belonged to the Garden of the Gods Club.
"She was always willing to do anything you asked her to do," said friend Mary Beth Naye.
They are survived by his children, Crete Crawford Wood of New Canaan, Conn.; Wilson Clay Crawford and James Paul Crawford of Denver; and her daughters, Laurel Jo McLean and Dottie Stout of Colorado Springs and Mary Leslie Gray of Tulsa, Okla. Together, they had 10 grandchildren.
Three members of the United States Olympic Training Center were also among the victims.
At some point, I might have gone back to this third cousin once removed and done this additional research. The likelihood of that occurring in the near future would be small. Thus, I'm thankful for the prompting of this email!
Footnotes:
"All 25 on United Jetliner Die in Fiery Crash," The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida), 4 March 1991, page 1; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online August 2019).
"Air Fatalaties Investigated: Crash of Boeing 737 Claims 25 Lives," The Republic (Columbus, Indiana), 4 March 1991, page 2; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online August 2019).
"Searchers Continue to Look for Clues to Airplane Crash," The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California), 5 March 1991, page A-9; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapers.com : viewed online August 2019).
"Obituary for C. Clay and Jo Crawford: Businessmen, vacationeers among United 585 passengers," transcription, The Gazette, (Colorado Springs, CO), 5 March 1991; Public Member Story, , submitter, linked to , Genealogy Bank, www.genealogybank.com.
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