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Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Scribner Family

I have come across a rather interesting archive on a website maintained by the Clark County, Wisconsin Internet Library; a collection of dedicated person who place historic records and news archives on the internet to the general public. It details the 1940 wedding of Velma Scribner to a Mr Harvey in Los Angeles, California. Velma was of course the sister to Alice Scribner, the air hostess so tragically killed in 1933 in the Chesterton crash. Interestingly Velma wore the wedding dress that had been intended for her sister Alice who was meant to be getting married.

If ANYONE from the Scribner family line who knew of Alice or Velma or are descendants of this particular branch read this please do get in contact. I believe that there is no memorial to this 1933 crash and I believe Alice deserves a bit more recognition for being the first hostess killed in the USA by a suspected act of sabotage.