Donald Eugene
Pinguely
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 20 November 1928,
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Donald Pinguely, 20, Melbourne Ky. youth who was injured in an airplane crash near Newtown O. Sunday is dead at General Hospital, Cincinnati. Pinguely was injured while riding with Miss Edna Hopkins, 17, of 328 W Ninth st. Newport. He suffered a broken left leg, cuts and bruises and possible skull fractures.
Miss Hopkins received severe cuts and wrist and foot fractures, but reports from Bethesda Hospital say that her condition is good and she stands a better than fair chance of getting well. Pinguely and Miss Hopkins took an airplace ride Sunday, with Gobel Blankenship, 28, also fo 328 W Ninth st. Newport Blankenship is a student aviator.
Flying from the Dixie Davis Flying Field near the Union Levy, Blankenship had been roaming around from some time, when suddenly, when near Newtown, his plane was seen to go into a tail spin at a height of 1000 feet and he crash followed.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 20 November 1928,
page 11
Donald Pinguely, 20, Melbourne Ky. died at General Hospital Tuesday of injuries suffered Sunday in an airplane crash near Newtown. Coroner Frederick C Swing was notified of the death. Pinguely had a broken left leg, cuts and bruises and may have had a skull fracture, hospital physicians said. Goebel Blankenship, 28, a student aviator at the Dixie Davis Flying field Inc. Union Levee, was treated for cuts at General Hospital and then went to his home.
Douglas Pinguely, also of Membourne, was at his brother's side when he died. Witnesses said the plane went into a tail spin and fell 1000 feet. The crash occurred about a half mile from the spot where Lovell E Conelly was killed and Theodore Hunter, Milford O. was injured, recently when their plane crashed after a tail spin.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 21 November 1928,
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Funeral services for Donald Pinguely, 20, Melbourne Ky. who died Tuesday at General Hospital of injuries suffered Sunday in an airplane crash near Newtown, will be conducted Thursday at 2:30 pm at his home by Rev J Newton Clos, Newport. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
After his graduation from Highland High School last June, Pinguely enrolled for a two year course in mechanical engineering at Ohio Mechanics Institute. He is survived by his parents Dr. and Mrs. J E Pinguely; a brother, Douglas and a sister, Mrs. Gwendolyn Williamson, Bellevue.