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Carrollton High School
Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas
Senior ClassJack Keneipp
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OBITUARY
Carrollton Burial Set For Navy Crash Victim
CARROLLTON, Texas, April 29. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday
at the Carrollton Methodist Church for Naval Aviation Cadet Jack Keneipp, who
was killed in an airplane crash Tuesday. Cadet Keneipp was born at Mount Carmel,
Ill., but lived at Carrollton from the time he started to school there in the
third grade. He volunteered for naval air service last summer and was sent to
Texas A. & M. College for a two-month course and was awarded a private pilot's
license there. He went to Athens, Ga., for active naval training and was
killed twenty days after going to Lambert Field, St. Louis, Mo., for further
work.
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams
From Evelyn Pearl Money's Scrapbook |
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Jack
Keneipp Dies While In Training For Navy Flier
Word was received here Tuesday of the death of Jack Conway Keneipp of
Carrollton.
Keneipp, who was twenty-one last November, was born in Illinois and moved to
Carrollton with his family about thirteen years ago.
He was graduated from the Carrollton High School n 1929 and later completed a
business course in Dallas. He was employed at Corpus Christi prior to enlistment
in the Naval Air Force.
He completed his C.A.A. Primary Training at Texas A. and M. College and spent
several weeks here with his family around Christmas before he was ordered to
report to Athens, Ga., to enter the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School
Early in April he completed his course at Athens and was transferred to the
Naval Air Station at Robertson Missouri.
Survivors besides his mother include three sisters,
Mrs. R. B. Pierce and Miss
Peggy of the home address and Mrs. Fred Werner of Dallas.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon at the Carrollton
Methodist church with the Rev. Felix R. Kindel, pastor, officiating. Burial will
be at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
The Carrollton Chronicle, April 30, 1943
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams |
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Cadet Killed In Crash of Training PlaneNaval
Aviation Cadet Jack Conway Keneipp, 21, son of Mrs. Alice C. Keneipp of
Carrollton and former football star there, was killed Tuesday in the crash of a
training plane at the Lambert-St. Louis Naval Air Base, his family has been
notified.
The plane in which he was riding apparently went into a spin while he was on a
routine solo flight, they said.
Keneipp was a graduate of the Carrollton High School and had been captain of the
football team there.
He is survived by his mother and three sisters, Mrs. R. B. Pierce and Miss Peggy
Keneipp, Carrollton, and Mrs. Fred Werner, Dallas.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Carrollton Methodist
Church with the Rev. Felix Kindel officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery
The Dallas Morning News - April 29, 1943
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams |
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