The Topeka Daily Capital Monday April 21, 1947 Delia Woman Dies In Crash Of Plane. Miss Bernice Margaret HOUCK, 28, formerly of Delia, died Saturday night in a plane crash near San Fernando, Calif., according to word received by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Houck of Delia. No details in connection with the crash were received. Miss Houck has been employed in a hospital at Hawthrone, Calif., and occasionally took week-end plane rides to points of interest in California. She was born November 30, 1918, in Delia. Besides her parents, survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Lee SUMMER and Mrs. Elizabeth N. SUMMER, both of Wichita; five brothers, Leroy Houck, Los Angeles, Calif., Lawrence Houck, Sacramento, Calif.; Wendell and John Houck, now in military service, and Richard Houck, of the home, and a grandfather, L.T. Houck of Delia. Funeral services and burial will be in Delia but further arrangements will not be made until after the arrival of the body from California.