----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Bosecker" <sbosecker@mindspring.com> To: <mamiddle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [MAMiddle] Stewart A. McKenzie of Winchester MA > John, > > I recently sent an email to the Winchester, MA library requesting a search > of the local newspaper for information on Stewart A. McKenzie's death. > > Today I received a photocopy of an article that appeared in the Winchester > newspaper on 24 Sep 1937. Looks like the vital stats you found were bang > on! > > Best regards, > > Scott Bosecker > > > WINCHESTER NAVAL FLIER KILLED > > Stuart A. MacKenzie and Raymond A. Schmidt Crashed at Long Island > > Stuart A. MacKenzie, Jr., naval aviation cadet and nephew of Mrs. William > E. > Schrafft of 45 Arlington street with a fellow cadet, Raymond A. Schmidt of > Alton, Ill., was killed instantly Monday morning when their plane crashed > at > Brookville, Long Island, N.Y., as they wre flying back to join their unit > at > Norfok, Va. Cadet MacKenzie sustained a fractured skull when his body was > wedged between the fuselage of the plane and a large oak tree. His > companion, Cadet Schmidt, died two hours after the accident in a hospital > at > Glencove, L.I. > > Both young fliers had been on furlough and had spent their leave at the > Schrafft home in Winchester. They were driven by the Schrafft chaffeur to > the Squantum airport where they hopped off at 9:30 Monday morning. The > crash occurred at 10:15. > > The plane in which they were flying was a Vought scouting plane attached > to > the U.S.S. Yorktown. As it crashed it tore through a line of telegraph > wires, broke off several trees and struck with such a force that its parts > were scattered over a wide area. > > Cadet MacKenzie's body was brought to Winchester, accompanied by Aviation > Cadet Richard L Frieda, a close friend of the deceased. Funeral services > are to be held this Friday afternoon at the Schrafft home at 2 o'clock > with > Dr. Austin Rice, pastor of the First Congregational Church in Wakefield > officiating. Interment will be in Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield, where > Naval > honors will be accorded by a firing squad and bugler. > > Stuart A. Mackenzie, Jr., was 25 years old and unmarried. He was born in > Woburn, son of Stuart A. and Genevra (Danforth) MacKenzie, spent his early > years in Wakefield and later lived with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. > William E. Schrafft, in Winchester until he went away to school at > Governor > Dummer Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy. > > He graduated from Yale with the class of 1935, taking an active interest > in > athletics and playing on the baseball team for three years. Immediately > after his graduation he entered the naval aviation school at Pensacola Fla > later being transferred to Norfolk. > > Besides Mr. and Mrs. Schrafft, Cadet Mackenzie is survived by his parents > and ba a sister, Mrs. J. C. Whitehair of Shaker Heights, Ohio. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Buczek" <john.buczek@comcast.net> > To: <mamiddle@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:23 PM > Subject: Re: [MAMiddle] Stewart A. McKenzie of Winchester MA > > >> >From the town records of Reading Middlesex MA. I find the following >> >> STUART ARNOLD McKENZIE born 10/25/1912 Woburn MA. Choat Hospital to >> STUART >> McKENZIE Salesman and GENEVIEVE H. DANFORTH of 6 Bancroft Ave. Reading >> MA. >> >> Source: 1912 Birth Register Reading MA. >> >> STUART McKENZIE AGE 25 Salesman of Wakefield MA son of JOHN McKENZIE and >> MARY A. BUCKLEY and GENVIEVE HERBATINE DANFORTH age 21 of Reading MA >> daughter of ALFRED DANFORTH and ALICE A. EATON were married 1/16/1908 in >> Reading MA. >> >> Source: 1908 Marriage Register Reading MA. >> >> >> In 1910 Stuart McKenzie age 28 employed as a Commercial Salesman with >> wife >> Genevieve H. age 23 keeping house and daughter Janette age 3 mths are >> living >> in the home of Henry Cook and his wife Mary M.. They state they have >> been >> married for 3 years and have had 1 child who is living. >> >> Source: 1910 census Reading Middlesex Massachusetts I'm wondering if you know the McKenzie family that lived in Reading Ma around 1960ish? They had two children I believe a son, whose name escapes me now, and a daughter Paula who graduated from RMHS 1963 or so. I thought they lived on Bancroft ave if not a neighboring street. I grew up in Reading, but have been away from area for over 30 years now. My late brother went to school with Paula as did my sister bn > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject > and the body of the email with no additional text. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >