Clipper Pioneers - In Memory Of...
Denny Dinsmore passed away on March 13, 2010. More information to follow.
Tom L. Miller was a Flight Engineer with Pan Am for 28 years. He flew out of SFO for a number of years until we moved to Los Angeles area...where he flew out of LAX until he retired in 1983.
Tom passed away March 1,2010 from Alzheimer's and Parkenson disease. He was 80 years old . Tom and his wife Anna were married 60 years and had three beautiful daughters, three grandchildren and one great grandson. Tom fought a long battle with Alzheimer's
Anna says: "I know he is in a better place now.....but I miss him so very much.I am thankful for the years we did have together."
We miss all of our Pa n Am friends....we lost touch with so many friends.
Memorial for Tom on April 10,2010 at 2p.m. at Quail Run Club House in Paso Robles, Ca.93446
Connie Mazzarella, former JFK flight attendant, advises that Capt. Al Berry passed away on December 12 in New Milford, CT. No other details are available.
Retired Pan Am Switchboard Operator, Ann M. Jurasek, age 82, of 3017 Fortesque Avenue, Oceanside, New York, a former resident of Banner Elk, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida, died Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside.
Ann Jurasek is survived by her husband Frank; two daughters, Linda Petrizzi of Oceanside and Nancy Preudhomme of West Babylon, New York; two sons, Robert Jurasek of Miami Beach, Florida and John Jurasek of Apple Valley, California, and one brother, John Mahoney and wife Lillian of Tampa, Florida. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, a number of nieces, great-nieces, and great-nephews.
Funeral arrangements for Ann Jurasek will take place in Boone, North Carolina; dates are still pending.
Memorial contributions may be made to Nassau County American Legion, (Legacy Fund), in care of Frank Colon, 85 Cleveland Avenue, RVC, New York, 11570.
Online condolences may be sent to the Jurasek family at www.hamptonfuneralservice.com.
Hampton Funeral and Cremation Service is coordinating all arrangements on behalf of the family.
William Louis Hussman passed away peacefully at his home in Minden on February 4, 2010 at the age of 88. He instructed military pilots when the war broke out and then was hired by Pan American Airways in 1943, retiring after 35 years in 1978. His career began aboard the early Pan Am Clipper flying boats based at Treasure Island and ended with a smooth landing in San Francisco as captain aboard the Boeing 747. He was highly regarded as a pilot by the company and his fellow employees and considered a real gentleman and an all around good guy by all. Read more >>>
Melvin J. Fuller took his final flight at age 88 on January 28, 2010 in Santa Rosa, CA. Mel was born on the second of February, 1922. He liked to mention that he and Charles Lindhberg had the same birthdate, only his (Mel?s) was 20 years later.
He led an exemplary life -- working hard and playing hard, along side of his loving wife, Pearl, of 67 years. A pilot for Pan Am for 36 years, he never missed a flight. He was fond of saying flying for PanAm was such a great adventure, that if PanAm ever became aware that how much he enjoed his job, would have flown for free.
He was an enthusiastic Rotarian, a happy hiker and a great tennis player. A man that all who had the privilege to know admired. He will be sorely missed by his many friends and all of his family. He'd requested no services, donations to Hospice would be nice.
His obit/Guestbook may be found at www.marinij.com/obits
Capt. R.W. Savory passed away in January 2010, in Santa Rosa, CA. He had reached the venerable age of 100, last October.
Edmund Buchser, Jr., retired Lt. Colonel, United States Marine Corps, and retired Pan Am captain, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, passed away, January 10, 2010. More >>>
For a list of those who passed in 2008-2009, click on the links in the right-hand column of this page.