Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Hebrews 1:14
Funeral services for C. L. Newburn Jr., age 89, of Jacksonville, are scheduled for 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville with the late Dr. Harold Brunson, Dr. Hal Brunson, Bro. Barnwell Anderson and Deacon James Spivey officiating.
Burial will be at Still Waters Memorial Gardens, Jacksonville.
Services are under the direction of Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
Mr. Newburn passed away Saturday, December 18, 2010 in Jacksonville.
He was born January 5, 1921 in Jacksonville, TX.
Mr. Newburn was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville, served in the United State Navy as a pilot during World War II. and was owner/CEO of Bonner Place in Jacksonville.
It was January 8, 1945, when Lt. C. L. Newburn, a Navy pilot in World War II, shot down a suicide bomber during the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn took off from his carrier, the U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay, early that morning before sunrise. Eleven small carriers sent planes north to Luzon at Linguyen Gulf. Their job was to circle the fleet that was shelling the beach and give them protection from suicide planes.
About 7:15 he got a radio message that a suicide plane was coming in and that his assignment was to intercept it. He spotted the plane and shot it down, causing it to crash about twenty feet from a cruiser. When he pulled up and was about five hundred feet above the fleet, they opened fire, not realizing that his was an American plane.
His plane caught fire and he realized that he was hit in the foot and leg. After that, he doesn't remember anything until he came to in the water with the parachute open. He inflated his "Mae West" (a life preserver named for the movie star). Then he became aware that he didn't have a right leg and was bleeding profusely. He was able to staunch the bleeding with the shroud line off his parachute.
As he tells the story, "I lay there a minute, and I looked behind me and I saw a toe sticking up, I reached back and started patting it and it was my leg. It had just broke and had gone around behind me. And I patted it and it came right back around. Naturally I was happy about that".
He remained conscious and was approached by the destroyer U.S.S. Allen Sumner. The sailors saw him out in the water, but they didn't know whether he was American or Japanese. So he looked into the barrels of about ten rifles. He pulled off his helmet and pointed to his hair and his eyes. By the time they got him on board, the pain was overwhelming and the doctor sedated him. Eventually, he was transferred to a hospital ship where he had seven operations on his leg, but it was permanently shortened.
By the time Newburn got back home to Jacksonville eight months later, the war had ended.
Newburn's Navy career began in Jacksonville in 1942, when he enlisted and was initially assigned to a flight school here. The ground school was at Lon Morris College and the flight training at an airport north of Jacksonville. They began by learning to fly Piper cubs. Several months passed before he finally went to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he flew Steermans, two-wing planes with an open cockpit. He liked the feel of flying. At Corpus Christi, he began to fly larger planes out over the Gulf of Mexico. He finished that segment of his training August 18, 1943, and got married the same day!
After further training in Opelika, Florida, he went to the Great Lakes where he had to make seven carrier landings before finally being shipped to the West Coast, ready to join a squadron and debark for the Philippines.
The U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay was what was called a "midget carrier" –able to carry twenty fighter planes and sixteen torpedo planes. When he left San Diego on the Hoggatt, he did not know his squadron's assignment. By January 1945, they were in place ready for the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn believes that a ministering spirit within him helped him get out of the plane and pull the ripcord. Otherwise, he can't explain how he managed to survive his encounter with the suicide plane.
He says of his service in the Navy, "I feel like I was fortunate to grow up at the time I grew up. I was fortunate to go through what I went through. It wasn't all pleasant, but I went through it and I'm glad that I did".
He is preceded in death by his parents Dr. C. L. Newburn and Mrs. Bertha Phillips Newburn, step mother Massey Newburn, son Columbus Lum Newburn, III, and sister Billybob Newburn Dublin.
Survivors include wife of 67 years Gwen Davis Newburn of Jacksonville; daughter Jan Newburn Brazier of Jacksonville; daughter-in-law Sharon Newburn of Jacksonville; three grandchildren Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV and Sarah Nicole Newburn and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV, Richmond Dublin, David Dublin, David Johnson, Roy Darby and James Spivey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Beal, Ronnie O'Dell, Harold Sanders and Bonner Place staff.
The family will receive friends from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
A special thanks to the nursing staff at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and for the loving care of his special angels, Michelle Pike, Fran Cleaver, David Moore and Patricia Garner and also Bonner Place nursing staff for their tender loving care.
Please send me no flowers for they fade away in days. Please send a donation to Jacksonville College to help students find their way.
Funeral services for C. L. Newburn Jr., age 89, of Jacksonville, are scheduled for 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville with the late Dr. Harold Brunson, Dr. Hal Brunson, Bro. Barnwell Anderson and Deacon James Spivey officiating.
Burial will be at Still Waters Memorial Gardens, Jacksonville.
Services are under the direction of Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
Mr. Newburn passed away Saturday, December 18, 2010 in Jacksonville.
He was born January 5, 1921 in Jacksonville, TX.
Mr. Newburn was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville, served in the United State Navy as a pilot during World War II. and was owner/CEO of Bonner Place in Jacksonville.
It was January 8, 1945, when Lt. C. L. Newburn, a Navy pilot in World War II, shot down a suicide bomber during the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn took off from his carrier, the U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay, early that morning before sunrise. Eleven small carriers sent planes north to Luzon at Linguyen Gulf. Their job was to circle the fleet that was shelling the beach and give them protection from suicide planes.
About 7:15 he got a radio message that a suicide plane was coming in and that his assignment was to intercept it. He spotted the plane and shot it down, causing it to crash about twenty feet from a cruiser. When he pulled up and was about five hundred feet above the fleet, they opened fire, not realizing that his was an American plane.
His plane caught fire and he realized that he was hit in the foot and leg. After that, he doesn't remember anything until he came to in the water with the parachute open. He inflated his "Mae West" (a life preserver named for the movie star). Then he became aware that he didn't have a right leg and was bleeding profusely. He was able to staunch the bleeding with the shroud line off his parachute.
As he tells the story, "I lay there a minute, and I looked behind me and I saw a toe sticking up, I reached back and started patting it and it was my leg. It had just broke and had gone around behind me. And I patted it and it came right back around. Naturally I was happy about that".
He remained conscious and was approached by the destroyer U.S.S. Allen Sumner. The sailors saw him out in the water, but they didn't know whether he was American or Japanese. So he looked into the barrels of about ten rifles. He pulled off his helmet and pointed to his hair and his eyes. By the time they got him on board, the pain was overwhelming and the doctor sedated him. Eventually, he was transferred to a hospital ship where he had seven operations on his leg, but it was permanently shortened.
By the time Newburn got back home to Jacksonville eight months later, the war had ended.
Newburn's Navy career began in Jacksonville in 1942, when he enlisted and was initially assigned to a flight school here. The ground school was at Lon Morris College and the flight training at an airport north of Jacksonville. They began by learning to fly Piper cubs. Several months passed before he finally went to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he flew Steermans, two-wing planes with an open cockpit. He liked the feel of flying. At Corpus Christi, he began to fly larger planes out over the Gulf of Mexico. He finished that segment of his training August 18, 1943, and got married the same day!
After further training in Opelika, Florida, he went to the Great Lakes where he had to make seven carrier landings before finally being shipped to the West Coast, ready to join a squadron and debark for the Philippines.
The U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay was what was called a "midget carrier" –able to carry twenty fighter planes and sixteen torpedo planes. When he left San Diego on the Hoggatt, he did not know his squadron's assignment. By January 1945, they were in place ready for the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn believes that a ministering spirit within him helped him get out of the plane and pull the ripcord. Otherwise, he can't explain how he managed to survive his encounter with the suicide plane.
He says of his service in the Navy, "I feel like I was fortunate to grow up at the time I grew up. I was fortunate to go through what I went through. It wasn't all pleasant, but I went through it and I'm glad that I did".
He is preceded in death by his parents Dr. C. L. Newburn and Mrs. Bertha Phillips Newburn, step mother Massey Newburn, son Columbus Lum Newburn, III, and sister Billybob Newburn Dublin.
Survivors include wife of 67 years Gwen Davis Newburn of Jacksonville; daughter Jan Newburn Brazier of Jacksonville; daughter-in-law Sharon Newburn of Jacksonville; three grandchildren Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV and Sarah Nicole Newburn and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV, Richmond Dublin, David Dublin, David Johnson, Roy Darby and James Spivey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Beal, Ronnie O'Dell, Harold Sanders and Bonner Place staff.
The family will receive friends from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
A special thanks to the nursing staff at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and for the loving care of his special angels, Michelle Pike, Fran Cleaver, David Moore and Patricia Garner and also Bonner Place nursing staff for their tender loving care.
Please send me no flowers for they fade away in days. Please send a donation to Jacksonville College to help students find their way.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Hebrews 1:14
Funeral services for C. L. Newburn Jr., age 89, of Jacksonville, are scheduled for 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville with the late Dr. Harold Brunson, Dr. Hal Brunson, Bro. Barnwell Anderson and Deacon James Spivey officiating.
Burial will be at Still Waters Memorial Gardens, Jacksonville.
Services are under the direction of Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
Mr. Newburn passed away Saturday, December 18, 2010 in Jacksonville.
He was born January 5, 1921 in Jacksonville, TX.
Mr. Newburn was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville, served in the United State Navy as a pilot during World War II. and was owner/CEO of Bonner Place in Jacksonville.
It was January 8, 1945, when Lt. C. L. Newburn, a Navy pilot in World War II, shot down a suicide bomber during the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn took off from his carrier, the U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay, early that morning before sunrise. Eleven small carriers sent planes north to Luzon at Linguyen Gulf. Their job was to circle the fleet that was shelling the beach and give them protection from suicide planes.
About 7:15 he got a radio message that a suicide plane was coming in and that his assignment was to intercept it. He spotted the plane and shot it down, causing it to crash about twenty feet from a cruiser. When he pulled up and was about five hundred feet above the fleet, they opened fire, not realizing that his was an American plane.
His plane caught fire and he realized that he was hit in the foot and leg. After that, he doesn't remember anything until he came to in the water with the parachute open. He inflated his "Mae West" (a life preserver named for the movie star). Then he became aware that he didn't have a right leg and was bleeding profusely. He was able to staunch the bleeding with the shroud line off his parachute.
As he tells the story, "I lay there a minute, and I looked behind me and I saw a toe sticking up, I reached back and started patting it and it was my leg. It had just broke and had gone around behind me. And I patted it and it came right back around. Naturally I was happy about that".
He remained conscious and was approached by the destroyer U.S.S. Allen Sumner. The sailors saw him out in the water, but they didn't know whether he was American or Japanese. So he looked into the barrels of about ten rifles. He pulled off his helmet and pointed to his hair and his eyes. By the time they got him on board, the pain was overwhelming and the doctor sedated him. Eventually, he was transferred to a hospital ship where he had seven operations on his leg, but it was permanently shortened.
By the time Newburn got back home to Jacksonville eight months later, the war had ended.
Newburn's Navy career began in Jacksonville in 1942, when he enlisted and was initially assigned to a flight school here. The ground school was at Lon Morris College and the flight training at an airport north of Jacksonville. They began by learning to fly Piper cubs. Several months passed before he finally went to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he flew Steermans, two-wing planes with an open cockpit. He liked the feel of flying. At Corpus Christi, he began to fly larger planes out over the Gulf of Mexico. He finished that segment of his training August 18, 1943, and got married the same day!
After further training in Opelika, Florida, he went to the Great Lakes where he had to make seven carrier landings before finally being shipped to the West Coast, ready to join a squadron and debark for the Philippines.
The U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay was what was called a "midget carrier" –able to carry twenty fighter planes and sixteen torpedo planes. When he left San Diego on the Hoggatt, he did not know his squadron's assignment. By January 1945, they were in place ready for the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn believes that a ministering spirit within him helped him get out of the plane and pull the ripcord. Otherwise, he can't explain how he managed to survive his encounter with the suicide plane.
He says of his service in the Navy, "I feel like I was fortunate to grow up at the time I grew up. I was fortunate to go through what I went through. It wasn't all pleasant, but I went through it and I'm glad that I did".
He is preceded in death by his parents Dr. C. L. Newburn and Mrs. Bertha Phillips Newburn, step mother Massey Newburn, son Columbus Lum Newburn, III, and sister Billybob Newburn Dublin.
Survivors include wife of 67 years Gwen Davis Newburn of Jacksonville; daughter Jan Newburn Brazier of Jacksonville; daughter-in-law Sharon Newburn of Jacksonville; three grandchildren Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV and Sarah Nicole Newburn and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV, Richmond Dublin, David Dublin, David Johnson, Roy Darby and James Spivey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Beal, Ronnie O'Dell, Harold Sanders and Bonner Place staff.
The family will receive friends from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
A special thanks to the nursing staff at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and for the loving care of his special angels, Michelle Pike, Fran Cleaver, David Moore and Patricia Garner and also Bonner Place nursing staff for their tender loving care.
Please send me no flowers for they fade away in days. Please send a donation to Jacksonville College to help students find their way.
Funeral services for C. L. Newburn Jr., age 89, of Jacksonville, are scheduled for 2:00 pm Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville with the late Dr. Harold Brunson, Dr. Hal Brunson, Bro. Barnwell Anderson and Deacon James Spivey officiating.
Burial will be at Still Waters Memorial Gardens, Jacksonville.
Services are under the direction of Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
Mr. Newburn passed away Saturday, December 18, 2010 in Jacksonville.
He was born January 5, 1921 in Jacksonville, TX.
Mr. Newburn was a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Jacksonville, served in the United State Navy as a pilot during World War II. and was owner/CEO of Bonner Place in Jacksonville.
It was January 8, 1945, when Lt. C. L. Newburn, a Navy pilot in World War II, shot down a suicide bomber during the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn took off from his carrier, the U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay, early that morning before sunrise. Eleven small carriers sent planes north to Luzon at Linguyen Gulf. Their job was to circle the fleet that was shelling the beach and give them protection from suicide planes.
About 7:15 he got a radio message that a suicide plane was coming in and that his assignment was to intercept it. He spotted the plane and shot it down, causing it to crash about twenty feet from a cruiser. When he pulled up and was about five hundred feet above the fleet, they opened fire, not realizing that his was an American plane.
His plane caught fire and he realized that he was hit in the foot and leg. After that, he doesn't remember anything until he came to in the water with the parachute open. He inflated his "Mae West" (a life preserver named for the movie star). Then he became aware that he didn't have a right leg and was bleeding profusely. He was able to staunch the bleeding with the shroud line off his parachute.
As he tells the story, "I lay there a minute, and I looked behind me and I saw a toe sticking up, I reached back and started patting it and it was my leg. It had just broke and had gone around behind me. And I patted it and it came right back around. Naturally I was happy about that".
He remained conscious and was approached by the destroyer U.S.S. Allen Sumner. The sailors saw him out in the water, but they didn't know whether he was American or Japanese. So he looked into the barrels of about ten rifles. He pulled off his helmet and pointed to his hair and his eyes. By the time they got him on board, the pain was overwhelming and the doctor sedated him. Eventually, he was transferred to a hospital ship where he had seven operations on his leg, but it was permanently shortened.
By the time Newburn got back home to Jacksonville eight months later, the war had ended.
Newburn's Navy career began in Jacksonville in 1942, when he enlisted and was initially assigned to a flight school here. The ground school was at Lon Morris College and the flight training at an airport north of Jacksonville. They began by learning to fly Piper cubs. Several months passed before he finally went to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he flew Steermans, two-wing planes with an open cockpit. He liked the feel of flying. At Corpus Christi, he began to fly larger planes out over the Gulf of Mexico. He finished that segment of his training August 18, 1943, and got married the same day!
After further training in Opelika, Florida, he went to the Great Lakes where he had to make seven carrier landings before finally being shipped to the West Coast, ready to join a squadron and debark for the Philippines.
The U.S.S. Hoggatt Bay was what was called a "midget carrier" –able to carry twenty fighter planes and sixteen torpedo planes. When he left San Diego on the Hoggatt, he did not know his squadron's assignment. By January 1945, they were in place ready for the invasion of the Philippines.
Newburn believes that a ministering spirit within him helped him get out of the plane and pull the ripcord. Otherwise, he can't explain how he managed to survive his encounter with the suicide plane.
He says of his service in the Navy, "I feel like I was fortunate to grow up at the time I grew up. I was fortunate to go through what I went through. It wasn't all pleasant, but I went through it and I'm glad that I did".
He is preceded in death by his parents Dr. C. L. Newburn and Mrs. Bertha Phillips Newburn, step mother Massey Newburn, son Columbus Lum Newburn, III, and sister Billybob Newburn Dublin.
Survivors include wife of 67 years Gwen Davis Newburn of Jacksonville; daughter Jan Newburn Brazier of Jacksonville; daughter-in-law Sharon Newburn of Jacksonville; three grandchildren Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV and Sarah Nicole Newburn and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Scott Brazier, Lum Newburn IV, Richmond Dublin, David Dublin, David Johnson, Roy Darby and James Spivey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Beal, Ronnie O'Dell, Harold Sanders and Bonner Place staff.
The family will receive friends from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at Autry Funeral Home, Jacksonville.
A special thanks to the nursing staff at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and for the loving care of his special angels, Michelle Pike, Fran Cleaver, David Moore and Patricia Garner and also Bonner Place nursing staff for their tender loving care.
Please send me no flowers for they fade away in days. Please send a donation to Jacksonville College to help students find their way.
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