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- The Helena Independent (MT) -- 18 Oct 1937
REICHLE COUPLE KILLED AS PLANE LOSES WING, DIVES -- Amateur Pilot is One Victim, Passenger is a Woman
Reichle, 17 Oct -- As his mother looked on from her home, Joseph Polish, 24, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Rudolph Polish, 21-year old mother ofa baby girl, crashed to their deaths here this afternoonwhen Polish's airplane lost a wing and plunged tothe ground from a height of 500 feet. The accident occurred hardly half a mile from the Polish ranch home. Polish's wrist watch was stopped at 3:30 pm. Young Polish, an amateur pilot, had taken his sister-in-law up just after landing with two passengers, Willis and William Smith, Reichle ranch laborers. Plane Old -- The plane, a second-hand, open-cockpit monoplane, had been purchased two weeks ago by Polish, who flew it here from Minneapolis. Mrs. Polish's body was badly mangled. Polish apparently shut off the ignition for the wreckage did notcatch fire. Witnesses said the right wing appeared to fall from the plane while it was about 500 feet from the ground, and theship plunged into a vertical dive, leveling off just before strikingtheearth and plowing into the side of a hill. Wreckage was strewn over a large area. The missing wing was found 155 yards from where the plane crashed. Young Polish, who had been flying for five years, and who frequently took passengers for shortflights, was said to have been qualifiedfor a transport pilot's license. The plane which crashed today was histhird machine. The Family -- Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Polish, preeminent ranchers ofthis section, Polish is survived by severalbrothers and sisters, including a sister, Mrs. Evelyn Jensen of Russell, CO. Mrs. Polish's husband, daughter, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Arbour, of Reichle, survive.
from FindAGrave.com -- excerpted 05 Jun 2012
Nellie Evelyn Arbour Polish
Birth: 1915
Wisdom, Beaverhead Co, MT
Death: 17 Oct 1937
Beaverhead Co, MT
Parents: Joseph Carl Arbour (1890 - 1965) & Alice Florence Stephens Arbour (1895 - 1964)
Inscription: Polish 1915 Nellie 1937
Note: Single Stone with seven family names
Burial: Mountain View Cemetery, Dillon, Beaverhead Co, MT
Plot: Plat B, Blk A, Lot 101, Space 4
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