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Continental Airlines Flight 11
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Continental Airlines Flight 11

Birth
Death
22 May 1962
Unionville, Putnam County, Missouri, USA
Cenotaph
Unionville, Putnam County, Missouri, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.476757, Longitude: -93.0022583
Plot
Northeast corner of the courthouse square
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Memorial site for Continental Airlines, Flight 11

This memorial is in honor of the crew and passengers who died on Continental Airlines Flight 11, which exploded over the Cincinnati, Iowa (Appanoose County) and Unionville, Missouri (Putnam County) area.

According to the Jefferson City Post Tribune article on August 1, 1962, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) determined that the Boeing 707 airplane, traveling from Chicago, Illinois to Kansas City, Missouri crashed due to a dynamite explosion on board. There were no survivors.

The Press Telegram in Long Beach California published the list of passengers on May 23, 1962:

Fred R Gray (50) – Pacific Palisades, CA (pilot)
E. J. Sullivan – Inglewood, CA
Jack Dean Allen (32) – Palos Verdes, CA
David Olssen (39) – El Segundo, CA
Marilyn Bloomquist (24) – El Segundo, CA (crew)
Mary McGrath (20) – El Segundo, CA (crew)
Joyce Rush (23) – Manhattan Beach, CA
Ann Berry (21)– Los Angeles, CA (Crew)
Jack Alexander – Dallas, TX
K. H. Berger – Rochester, NY
*Don D Bowman
Marcus Brand (27) – Overland Park, KS
Buford Carter (27) – Alden, KS
William C. Chapin – Rochester, NY
James A. Charity (37) – Des Plaines, IL
T. J. Cox (48) Meade, KS
Thomas G. Doty – Merriam, KS
Geneva Fraley – Independence, MO
C. Fritz – Kansas City, KS
Robert C. Gach
(32) – Chicago, IL another link
Philip E. Giberson – Jackson, MI
Sidney H. Goldberg – Hewlett Harbor, NY
Frank J. Greene, Jr (30) – Cleveland, OH
*Maurice E. Hamilton
John Hamm – Kansas City, MO
Henry Hanna – Lyons, KS
Fred P. Herman (46) – Dearborn, MI
R. I. Hoare – Surrey, England
Dale Horn (29) – Independence, MO
Edward A. Kuhn – Aurora, IL
Robert Miller, Melrose Park, IL
Virgil W. Mourning (45) Franklin, MI
Takehiko Nakano – Evanston, IL
R. A. Reld
Andy Roucka – Chicago, IL
Bruce Stewart – Des Plaines, IL
Robert Tabors – Providence, RI
Rex O. Thomas – Mount Prospect, IL
Frank Tutile – Liberal, KS
Edward Waffle – Kansas City, MO
Clifford Waldon – Lavrene, OK
James Webb – Anaheim, CA
Roger Welch (45) – Grosse Pointe, MI
B. J. Wilkes – Durham, NC
Russell Woll – Guymon, OK

*Don Bowman and Maurice Hamilton did not appear on the original passenger lists released by Continental airlines on May 23, 1962.

Memorial site for Continental Airlines, Flight 11

This memorial is in honor of the crew and passengers who died on Continental Airlines Flight 11, which exploded over the Cincinnati, Iowa (Appanoose County) and Unionville, Missouri (Putnam County) area.

According to the Jefferson City Post Tribune article on August 1, 1962, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) determined that the Boeing 707 airplane, traveling from Chicago, Illinois to Kansas City, Missouri crashed due to a dynamite explosion on board. There were no survivors.

The Press Telegram in Long Beach California published the list of passengers on May 23, 1962:

Fred R Gray (50) – Pacific Palisades, CA (pilot)
E. J. Sullivan – Inglewood, CA
Jack Dean Allen (32) – Palos Verdes, CA
David Olssen (39) – El Segundo, CA
Marilyn Bloomquist (24) – El Segundo, CA (crew)
Mary McGrath (20) – El Segundo, CA (crew)
Joyce Rush (23) – Manhattan Beach, CA
Ann Berry (21)– Los Angeles, CA (Crew)
Jack Alexander – Dallas, TX
K. H. Berger – Rochester, NY
*Don D Bowman
Marcus Brand (27) – Overland Park, KS
Buford Carter (27) – Alden, KS
William C. Chapin – Rochester, NY
James A. Charity (37) – Des Plaines, IL
T. J. Cox (48) Meade, KS
Thomas G. Doty – Merriam, KS
Geneva Fraley – Independence, MO
C. Fritz – Kansas City, KS
Robert C. Gach
(32) – Chicago, IL another link
Philip E. Giberson – Jackson, MI
Sidney H. Goldberg – Hewlett Harbor, NY
Frank J. Greene, Jr (30) – Cleveland, OH
*Maurice E. Hamilton
John Hamm – Kansas City, MO
Henry Hanna – Lyons, KS
Fred P. Herman (46) – Dearborn, MI
R. I. Hoare – Surrey, England
Dale Horn (29) – Independence, MO
Edward A. Kuhn – Aurora, IL
Robert Miller, Melrose Park, IL
Virgil W. Mourning (45) Franklin, MI
Takehiko Nakano – Evanston, IL
R. A. Reld
Andy Roucka – Chicago, IL
Bruce Stewart – Des Plaines, IL
Robert Tabors – Providence, RI
Rex O. Thomas – Mount Prospect, IL
Frank Tutile – Liberal, KS
Edward Waffle – Kansas City, MO
Clifford Waldon – Lavrene, OK
James Webb – Anaheim, CA
Roger Welch (45) – Grosse Pointe, MI
B. J. Wilkes – Durham, NC
Russell Woll – Guymon, OK

*Don Bowman and Maurice Hamilton did not appear on the original passenger lists released by Continental airlines on May 23, 1962.


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