William Parker Kerr

Dallas Crash Fatal to Three -- Fort Worth, March 31, 1956: A twin-engine private plane crashed in a residential section a quarter mile south of Meacham Field in north Fort Worth at 11:25 a.m. today, killing its three passengers. The victims, identified from papers, were: Maner Graham, 49, a Midland oil producer; Tex Maner Graham, 18, his son, also of Midland; and William Kerr, about 16, of Dallas. Witnesses said one of the plane's engines failed. It crashed in a garden at the back of a vacant lot, in a thickly populated area. No house was damaged and no resident was injured. Ascension Mata, 37, and some other men were working on cars in the vacant lot. Mata said the plane missed them by about 100 feet. It crashed in the garden. The canopy was thrown over a fence, into an alley. Two bodies were in the canopy and the third was thrown clear in the alley. The Orange, Texas, Leader, Sunday, April 1, 1956.

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