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Show Greenville Lieutenant Killed In Plane Crash Second Lieutenant J. Byron Blackner, 25, son of J. Walter and Margaret Murdock Blackner of Greenville and newhew of Mrs. Dell Kesler of Milford, was killed Wednesday in a plane crash some 71 miles east of El Paso, Texas. Four other occupants of the plane, of which Lieutenant Blackner is ! believed to have been pilot-instruc-jtor, were reported to have been killed in the crash, the plane having hav-ing been on a routine combat training flight from their base at Hobbs, New Mexico. A graduate of Beaver high school and B. A. C. at Cedar City, : Lieutenant Blackner also had attended at-tended the U. S. A. C. at Logan for three terms. As a member of the Beaver unit of the national guard, he went' to Camp San Lui3 i-Obispo with that organization in March, 1941 but later transferred to the air1 corps and qualified as a pilot. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Afton Blackner, a former Utah girl whom he married December 4, i 1941 at Los Angeles, and their little daughter, Linda Lee, who have been -making their home in i Hobbs; also a brother, Morrice Blackner, with the United States navy, and five sisters: Mrs. Pauline Paul-ine Stoddard, Salt Lake City; and Misses Dora Jean, Winnie, Shirley Lou and Celesta Mary Blackner all of Greenville. |