Franklin was killed in an airplane crash 20 miles west of St. George.
Washington County News
Thursday, December 22, 1949
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Dr. Franklin Y. Gates, Jr., Found Dead in Wreckage Of Plane Near Gunlock
Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., Las Vegas physician, who has been missing since Friday, December 16, was found Thursday, December 22, about 30 miles northwest of St. George, dead in his plane that had crashed into the south side of Jackson peak, at about 6500 feet elevation.
It is thought Dr. Gates must have died instantly as his plane was "rolled into a ball" in a small gulley in scrub vegetation.
The wrecked plane was found by John Nordin, a Motoqua rancher, and his nephew, Marion Nelson, about 3 p.m. Thursday, five miles northeast of Nordin's ranch. They said they had been within a mile of the wrecked plane several times in the last few days without seeing it, and they said they did not think it could have been seen from the air.
The men have searched all day, every day since Sunday, as well as many others from Gunlock, Veyo, St. George and other places, on horseback and on foot as well as in planes from Las Vegas, St. George and Milford.
According to Mr. Nordin and Mr. Nelson, the plane was directly on the Las Vegas - Salt Lake airline, about 2 1/2 miles southeast of beacon 36. They also report there was very little snow in the region and the wreckage was not snow covered.
Dr. Gates was well known in Salt Lake City as a physician and as a leading personality at the University of Utah.
He served his internship at Los Angeles General hospital and Holy Cross and St. Marks hospitals in Salt Lake city. He served three years in the U. S. Army, and was an experienced flyer with a commercial license. Once before he was forced down in 1943 when he was flying mail between Salt Lake City and Wendover and was the object of a six-day search. He moved to Las Vegas in June 1949.
Surviving are his widow, Helen Woolley Gates, a son and daughter, Harvey and Linda Susan, his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Lurene Wilkinson and Florence Marie Gates, and one grandmother, Mrs. James Keate, all of Salt Lake City.
The body of Dr. Gates was brought to St. George Friday by a party headed by Sheriff Antone B. Prince of Washington county. In the group were John Nordin and his nephew, Marion Nelson, of Motoqua, who found the airplane Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Gates' badly mangled body was still inside the cockpit of the plane. After being carried out of the gully by horse, the body was brought to St. George by the Cannon funeral home ambulance, and then sent to Salt Lake City for funeral services.
E. E. Hughes, an aeronautical safety engineer for the Utah state aeronautical commission, who had joined in the search efforts and was in the party when the body was brought, said the plane appeared not to have power-crashed into the mountain, but seemed to have fallen straight down for some distance.
Mr. Hughes said the green colored aircraft blended so well with the foliage that it was impossible to detect the wreckage from the air.
Salt Lake Telegram
Saturday, December 24, 1949
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Airman's Rites Slated in S. L.
Funeral services will be conducted in Salt Lake City for Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., killed in the crash of his airplane Dec. 16, and who was the object of an interstate air search until the wreckage was located Friday, near St. George.
Dr. Gates was enroute to Salt Lake City to deliver Christmas gifts to his mother and children when the crash occurred. A Mother Goose rhyme book and a jig-saw puzzle were found in the wreckage, still partially wrapped in their gay Christmas paper.
Funeral services will be conducted at 12:15 p.m. in the Yalecrest ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 18th East and Yalecrest Ave.
Albert E. Bowen and John A. Widstoe, members of the council of the twelve apostles of the LDS church, will be speakers. Both are uncles of the deceased.
Alvin P. Dyer, LDS bishop of Monument Park ward, will officiate.
Friends may call at the family residence, 2050 Herbert ave., Tuesday from 10 to 11:45 a.m.
Interment will be in Salt Lake City cemetery.
Washington County News
Thursday, December 22, 1949
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Dr. Franklin Y. Gates, Jr., Found Dead in Wreckage Of Plane Near Gunlock
Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., Las Vegas physician, who has been missing since Friday, December 16, was found Thursday, December 22, about 30 miles northwest of St. George, dead in his plane that had crashed into the south side of Jackson peak, at about 6500 feet elevation.
It is thought Dr. Gates must have died instantly as his plane was "rolled into a ball" in a small gulley in scrub vegetation.
The wrecked plane was found by John Nordin, a Motoqua rancher, and his nephew, Marion Nelson, about 3 p.m. Thursday, five miles northeast of Nordin's ranch. They said they had been within a mile of the wrecked plane several times in the last few days without seeing it, and they said they did not think it could have been seen from the air.
The men have searched all day, every day since Sunday, as well as many others from Gunlock, Veyo, St. George and other places, on horseback and on foot as well as in planes from Las Vegas, St. George and Milford.
According to Mr. Nordin and Mr. Nelson, the plane was directly on the Las Vegas - Salt Lake airline, about 2 1/2 miles southeast of beacon 36. They also report there was very little snow in the region and the wreckage was not snow covered.
Dr. Gates was well known in Salt Lake City as a physician and as a leading personality at the University of Utah.
He served his internship at Los Angeles General hospital and Holy Cross and St. Marks hospitals in Salt Lake city. He served three years in the U. S. Army, and was an experienced flyer with a commercial license. Once before he was forced down in 1943 when he was flying mail between Salt Lake City and Wendover and was the object of a six-day search. He moved to Las Vegas in June 1949.
Surviving are his widow, Helen Woolley Gates, a son and daughter, Harvey and Linda Susan, his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Lurene Wilkinson and Florence Marie Gates, and one grandmother, Mrs. James Keate, all of Salt Lake City.
The body of Dr. Gates was brought to St. George Friday by a party headed by Sheriff Antone B. Prince of Washington county. In the group were John Nordin and his nephew, Marion Nelson, of Motoqua, who found the airplane Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Gates' badly mangled body was still inside the cockpit of the plane. After being carried out of the gully by horse, the body was brought to St. George by the Cannon funeral home ambulance, and then sent to Salt Lake City for funeral services.
E. E. Hughes, an aeronautical safety engineer for the Utah state aeronautical commission, who had joined in the search efforts and was in the party when the body was brought, said the plane appeared not to have power-crashed into the mountain, but seemed to have fallen straight down for some distance.
Mr. Hughes said the green colored aircraft blended so well with the foliage that it was impossible to detect the wreckage from the air.
Salt Lake Telegram
Saturday, December 24, 1949
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Airman's Rites Slated in S. L.
Funeral services will be conducted in Salt Lake City for Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., killed in the crash of his airplane Dec. 16, and who was the object of an interstate air search until the wreckage was located Friday, near St. George.
Dr. Gates was enroute to Salt Lake City to deliver Christmas gifts to his mother and children when the crash occurred. A Mother Goose rhyme book and a jig-saw puzzle were found in the wreckage, still partially wrapped in their gay Christmas paper.
Funeral services will be conducted at 12:15 p.m. in the Yalecrest ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 18th East and Yalecrest Ave.
Albert E. Bowen and John A. Widstoe, members of the council of the twelve apostles of the LDS church, will be speakers. Both are uncles of the deceased.
Alvin P. Dyer, LDS bishop of Monument Park ward, will officiate.
Friends may call at the family residence, 2050 Herbert ave., Tuesday from 10 to 11:45 a.m.
Interment will be in Salt Lake City cemetery.
Franklin was killed in an airplane crash 20 miles west of St. George.
Washington County News
Thursday, December 22, 1949
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Dr. Franklin Y. Gates, Jr., Found Dead in Wreckage Of Plane Near Gunlock
Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., Las Vegas physician, who has been missing since Friday, December 16, was found Thursday, December 22, about 30 miles northwest of St. George, dead in his plane that had crashed into the south side of Jackson peak, at about 6500 feet elevation.
It is thought Dr. Gates must have died instantly as his plane was "rolled into a ball" in a small gulley in scrub vegetation.
The wrecked plane was found by John Nordin, a Motoqua rancher, and his nephew, Marion Nelson, about 3 p.m. Thursday, five miles northeast of Nordin's ranch. They said they had been within a mile of the wrecked plane several times in the last few days without seeing it, and they said they did not think it could have been seen from the air.
The men have searched all day, every day since Sunday, as well as many others from Gunlock, Veyo, St. George and other places, on horseback and on foot as well as in planes from Las Vegas, St. George and Milford.
According to Mr. Nordin and Mr. Nelson, the plane was directly on the Las Vegas - Salt Lake airline, about 2 1/2 miles southeast of beacon 36. They also report there was very little snow in the region and the wreckage was not snow covered.
Dr. Gates was well known in Salt Lake City as a physician and as a leading personality at the University of Utah.
He served his internship at Los Angeles General hospital and Holy Cross and St. Marks hospitals in Salt Lake city. He served three years in the U. S. Army, and was an experienced flyer with a commercial license. Once before he was forced down in 1943 when he was flying mail between Salt Lake City and Wendover and was the object of a six-day search. He moved to Las Vegas in June 1949.
Surviving are his widow, Helen Woolley Gates, a son and daughter, Harvey and Linda Susan, his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Lurene Wilkinson and Florence Marie Gates, and one grandmother, Mrs. James Keate, all of Salt Lake City.
The body of Dr. Gates was brought to St. George Friday by a party headed by Sheriff Antone B. Prince of Washington county. In the group were John Nordin and his nephew, Marion Nelson, of Motoqua, who found the airplane Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Gates' badly mangled body was still inside the cockpit of the plane. After being carried out of the gully by horse, the body was brought to St. George by the Cannon funeral home ambulance, and then sent to Salt Lake City for funeral services.
E. E. Hughes, an aeronautical safety engineer for the Utah state aeronautical commission, who had joined in the search efforts and was in the party when the body was brought, said the plane appeared not to have power-crashed into the mountain, but seemed to have fallen straight down for some distance.
Mr. Hughes said the green colored aircraft blended so well with the foliage that it was impossible to detect the wreckage from the air.
Salt Lake Telegram
Saturday, December 24, 1949
Page 14
Airman's Rites Slated in S. L.
Funeral services will be conducted in Salt Lake City for Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., killed in the crash of his airplane Dec. 16, and who was the object of an interstate air search until the wreckage was located Friday, near St. George.
Dr. Gates was enroute to Salt Lake City to deliver Christmas gifts to his mother and children when the crash occurred. A Mother Goose rhyme book and a jig-saw puzzle were found in the wreckage, still partially wrapped in their gay Christmas paper.
Funeral services will be conducted at 12:15 p.m. in the Yalecrest ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 18th East and Yalecrest Ave.
Albert E. Bowen and John A. Widstoe, members of the council of the twelve apostles of the LDS church, will be speakers. Both are uncles of the deceased.
Alvin P. Dyer, LDS bishop of Monument Park ward, will officiate.
Friends may call at the family residence, 2050 Herbert ave., Tuesday from 10 to 11:45 a.m.
Interment will be in Salt Lake City cemetery.
Washington County News
Thursday, December 22, 1949
Page 1 & 6
Dr. Franklin Y. Gates, Jr., Found Dead in Wreckage Of Plane Near Gunlock
Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., Las Vegas physician, who has been missing since Friday, December 16, was found Thursday, December 22, about 30 miles northwest of St. George, dead in his plane that had crashed into the south side of Jackson peak, at about 6500 feet elevation.
It is thought Dr. Gates must have died instantly as his plane was "rolled into a ball" in a small gulley in scrub vegetation.
The wrecked plane was found by John Nordin, a Motoqua rancher, and his nephew, Marion Nelson, about 3 p.m. Thursday, five miles northeast of Nordin's ranch. They said they had been within a mile of the wrecked plane several times in the last few days without seeing it, and they said they did not think it could have been seen from the air.
The men have searched all day, every day since Sunday, as well as many others from Gunlock, Veyo, St. George and other places, on horseback and on foot as well as in planes from Las Vegas, St. George and Milford.
According to Mr. Nordin and Mr. Nelson, the plane was directly on the Las Vegas - Salt Lake airline, about 2 1/2 miles southeast of beacon 36. They also report there was very little snow in the region and the wreckage was not snow covered.
Dr. Gates was well known in Salt Lake City as a physician and as a leading personality at the University of Utah.
He served his internship at Los Angeles General hospital and Holy Cross and St. Marks hospitals in Salt Lake city. He served three years in the U. S. Army, and was an experienced flyer with a commercial license. Once before he was forced down in 1943 when he was flying mail between Salt Lake City and Wendover and was the object of a six-day search. He moved to Las Vegas in June 1949.
Surviving are his widow, Helen Woolley Gates, a son and daughter, Harvey and Linda Susan, his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Lurene Wilkinson and Florence Marie Gates, and one grandmother, Mrs. James Keate, all of Salt Lake City.
The body of Dr. Gates was brought to St. George Friday by a party headed by Sheriff Antone B. Prince of Washington county. In the group were John Nordin and his nephew, Marion Nelson, of Motoqua, who found the airplane Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Gates' badly mangled body was still inside the cockpit of the plane. After being carried out of the gully by horse, the body was brought to St. George by the Cannon funeral home ambulance, and then sent to Salt Lake City for funeral services.
E. E. Hughes, an aeronautical safety engineer for the Utah state aeronautical commission, who had joined in the search efforts and was in the party when the body was brought, said the plane appeared not to have power-crashed into the mountain, but seemed to have fallen straight down for some distance.
Mr. Hughes said the green colored aircraft blended so well with the foliage that it was impossible to detect the wreckage from the air.
Salt Lake Telegram
Saturday, December 24, 1949
Page 14
Airman's Rites Slated in S. L.
Funeral services will be conducted in Salt Lake City for Dr. Franklin Y. Gates Jr., killed in the crash of his airplane Dec. 16, and who was the object of an interstate air search until the wreckage was located Friday, near St. George.
Dr. Gates was enroute to Salt Lake City to deliver Christmas gifts to his mother and children when the crash occurred. A Mother Goose rhyme book and a jig-saw puzzle were found in the wreckage, still partially wrapped in their gay Christmas paper.
Funeral services will be conducted at 12:15 p.m. in the Yalecrest ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at 18th East and Yalecrest Ave.
Albert E. Bowen and John A. Widstoe, members of the council of the twelve apostles of the LDS church, will be speakers. Both are uncles of the deceased.
Alvin P. Dyer, LDS bishop of Monument Park ward, will officiate.
Friends may call at the family residence, 2050 Herbert ave., Tuesday from 10 to 11:45 a.m.
Interment will be in Salt Lake City cemetery.
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