Vera Lyons LeFevre, widow of DL Capt. Byron H. LeFevre

~ IN MEMORY ~

Vera Lyons LeFevre, widow of DL Capt. Byron H. LeFevre

August 9, 1929 ~ March 26, 2018

 

Notification with the passing of Vera LeFevre, widow of Delta Air Lines Captain Byron H. LeFevre.  Vera was 88 years of age at the time of her passing.  Captain LeFevre joined Delta 05-02-1956 and retired in 1988, based Atlanta.  He passed in June of 2017.

To view/sign the online guestbook please visit http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gainesvilletimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=188599244

Services for Vera were held last Saturday in Gainesville, Georgia.

            Thank you,

                ~ Carol for the PCN 

Obituary.............

Vera Lyons LeFevre, 88, of Gainesville, passed away on March 26, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at Memorial Park North Riverside Chapel. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Dr. Bill Coates will officiate. The family will receive friends after the service at the funeral home.

 

Vera Lyons LeFevre was born on Aug. 9, 1929, in Birmingham, Ala. She was the daughter of Jack and Vera Lyons. Vera was raised in Birmingham, Ala., and graduated from Woodlawn High School.

 

On Dec. 27, 1952, Vera married Byron Hugh LeFevre and the two were happily married for 64 years. Vera was a loving wife and wonderful mother. She and Byron were the proud parents of three children: Tom, David and Linda.

 

During the first years of their marriage, the two traveled around the country as Byron served in the United States Air Force. After Byron completed his service, they moved to Atlanta, Ga., where Byron became a pilot for Delta Airlines.

 

In 1973, Vera and Byron moved to Dahlonega, Ga., where Vera loved all things outdoors. Those who knew Vera would attest to her love for animals. She could frequently be found outside wrangling her chickens and feeding all types of various wildlife. When visiting, you were sure to be greeted by dogs, cats, chickens or guinea hens.

 

When Vera moved to Dahlonega, she pursued her interest in ventriloquism and studied to learn the skill. She became a member of the Fellowship of Christian Magicians and affectionately became known as "The Puppet Lady" all across North Georgia. Vera participated in countless Vacation Bible Schools and carried her puppets (Roscoe, Jingo and Grandpa) all over the area to nursing homes, churches and schools. She made weekly visits to the nursing home in Dahlonega for almost 40 years.

 

After Byron retired from Delta Airlines, the two enjoyed traveling the Southeast in their motorhome and spending time with their seven grandchildren.

 

Vera was preceded in death by her husband Byron Hugh LeFevre; her parents Jack and Vera Lyons and sister Peggy Lyons Eargle. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Tom and Susan LeFevre of Gainesville; son and daughter-in-law David and Pat LeFevre of Douglasville; daughter and son-in-law Linda and Trent Conner of Dahlonega; granddaughter, Ashley (Allen) Ligon; granddaughter, Jennifer (Alan) Schuetze; grandsons, Scott LeFevre, Richard LeFevre, Michael Conner, Brian (Ally) LeFevre; granddaughter, Jillian (Chris) Toombs; and sister-in-law, Marilyn Iott of Salem, S.C.

 

Vera was a wonderful person with a sweet spirit, and her family and friends will miss her greatly.

 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to North Georgia Church, 74 Dill Lane, Dawsonville, GA 30534; TLC Humane Society, 1735 Red Oak Flats Road, Dahlonega, Georgia 30533; or to a charity of your choice. Online condolences can be made at www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com  Memorial Park North Riverside Chapel, 989 Riverside Drive, Gainesville, GA 30501. 770-297-6200.

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http://pcnflightwest.blogspot.com/2017/07/dl-capt-byron-hugh-lefevre.html 

USAF veteran, DL Capt. Byron Hugh LeFevre

July 11, 1929 ~ June 19, 2017

 

Notification with the passing of retired Delta pilot Captain Byron Hugh LeFevre, age 87.  Captain LeFevre joined Delta Air Lines 05-02-1956 and retired with Delta in August 1988, based Atlanta...................

Obituary:  Byron Hugh LeFevre, of Dahlonega, passed away on June 19, 2017. Byron was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on July 11, 1929. He was a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and a member of Omicron Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.  After graduation, Byron was a first lieutenant in the United States Air Force serving in the 46th Fighter Interceptor Squadron during the Korean Conflict. Upon leaving the Air Force, he was a captain with Delta Air Lines, where he flew from 1956 through 1988....................

WA/DL Capt. Carl L. Poschwatta

~ IN MEMORY ~

USAF veteran, WA/DL  Capt. Carl L. Poschwatta

February 5, 1937 ~ March 29, 2018

 

News has reached our group with the passing of retired Western/Delta pilot Captain Carl LeRoy Poschwatta, age 81.  Captain Poschwatta joined Western Airlines 01-09-1967 and retired with Delta Air Lines in 1997, based 030/LAX.  He is survived by his wife Carol plus many dear family members and close friends.

To view the obituary online and sign the guestbook please visit

 https://cascadememorial.com/obituary/251143/Carl-Poschwatta/

A Celebration of Life event for Captain Poschwatta will be held at Evergreen Sky Ranch hangar in Auburn, Washington on April 21st from 2:00-4:00PM.  For those wishing to send a personal note to the family, condolences may be sent to  

17620 SE 295th St.,  Kent  WA 98042-5711.

            Thank you,

                ~ Carol for the PCN 

 

Obituary............Carl LeRoy Poschwatta

Carl was born February 5, 1937, Albany, Oregon to Carl C. and Opal Poschwatta, and died on March 29, 2018 in Covington, WA. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, great grandfather, and friend to so many.

 

Carl's parents moved the family to Sisters, OR from Albany, OR and then to Canby, OR where he graduated from Gresham High School in 1955. After high school, He joined and proudly served in the U. S. Air Force Reserve. Carl married Carol Nance, his high school sweetheart, on September 20, 1957 and had two sons, Jeff and Joe. About the same time, he started learning how to fly and had to work two jobs to support both his family and flying habit. Carl was an avid aviator, starting his career as a flight instructor at Troutdale, OR and Hillsboro, OR. Once he had the requisite experience, he was hired in 1967 by Western Airlines. Carl and Carol's young family started out in Oak Grove, OR, but moved wherever Carl's aviation career took them, eventually ending up in Federal Way, WA in 1968. He was a professional pilot for his entire career, retiring from Delta Airlines in 1997. When he wasn't working, Carl's spare time was spent in the air or working on airplanes. Along the way he taught his two sons, Joe and Jeff, to fly as well as Jeff's wife Kim.

 

Carl and Carol bought a house at Crest Airpark in 1976 and later moved into a house they built across the street. Carl spent the last 42 years of his life enjoying his family and friends in the Crest Airpark community. He was a consummate story teller and possessed a wealth of knowledge; an affable soul with a hearty laugh.

 

Carl is survived by his wife of 60 years, Carol, sister Betty (Jack), son Jeffrey (Kim), brother-in-law Douglas (Beth), three grandchildren, Lisa, Faith and Kelsey, great grandchild Jaden, niece Meagan, nephew Mathew, and great-niece Audrey. He was preceded in death by his brother Robert and son Joseph.

 

A Celebration of Life service will be held at 37256 204th Ave. SE, Auburn, WA 98033, at Evergreen Sky Ranch hangar, April 21, 2018 from 2:00PM - 4:00PM. Donations can be made to the Puget Sound Antique Airplane Club scholarship fund (PSAAC, PO Box 731369, Puyallup, WA 98373).

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From: Wallybird eNews   Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 12:10 PM

Subject: Passing of WAL/DAL Captain Carl Poschwatta

 

Today at 10.48 am I lost one of my dearest friends, Captain Carl Poschwatta went that a way.  A better man there never was.

Will let you know of the arrangements when I know something.

A note or card to his wife Carol should be sent here:

Just a note the family is going to plan a memorial for Posh at a later date.  I will give you all the details so we can all attend.

Carol Poschwatta

17620 SE 295th

Kent, Wa 98042

Ph.  253-631-3167

        Dave Barber

DL flt instructor Edward K Wooke

~ IN MEMORY ~

EAL pilot/DL flt instructor Edward K. Wooke

December 30, 1933 ~ March 30, 2018

 

Notification with the passing of retired Delta Air Lines Flight Instructor Edward Kermit Wooke Sr., age 84.  Edward is survived by his wife Barbara. 

To  view/sign the online guestbook please visit the funeral home website at

 https://www.ingramfuneralhome.com/notices/Edward-Wooke 

The obituary may also be viewed online at

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=edward-k-wooke&pid=188617042&fhid=4996

Our information is limited to obituary details below....additional information is always welcome.

For those wishing to send a personal note to the family, whitepages lists the residence address as

3503 Habersham Club Dr # 8 , Cumming GA 30041-8002.

            Thank you,

                ~ Carol for the PCN   

 

Obituary...............................WOOKE, Edward K.

Edward K. Wooke, age 84, of Cumming, passed away Friday, March 30, 2018. He was a United States Airforce Pilot and was a Commercial Pilot with Eastern Airlines and a retired Flight Instructor with Delta Air Lines. He had coached many baseball and softball teams in Forsyth County and was an umpire and referee for many baseball, football and basketball games. He was an avid runner and ran in 25 consecutive Peachtree Road races. He was preceded in death by his son, Edward Kermit Wooke. Survivors include his wife, Barbara Wooke of Cumming; son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Alice Wooke of Dacula; brother, Chuck Wooke of Statesboro; sister, Lorraine Peterson of San Antonio, TX; grandchildren, Christina Rene Wooke, Karen Michelle Wooke, Craig Allen Wooke, Tonya Wooke Allgood. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at 2:00 pm at Ingram Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Gerald Blackburn officiating. Interment will follow on at Sawnee View Memorial Gardens. The Family will receive friends at Ingram Funeral Home on Monday from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Ingram Funeral Home in Cumming is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be made at www.ingramfuneralhome.com

Anita Shreve, daughter of NEA/DL Capt. Richard H Shreve

~ IN MEMORY ~

author Anita Shreve, daughter of NEA/DL Capt. Richard H. Shreve

October 7, 1946 ~ March 29, 2018

 

News has reached us with the passing of author Anita Hale Shreve, daughter of the late Northeast/Delta pilot Captain Richard H. Shreve.  Anita’s obituary and more information can be found online at http://www.legacy.com/ns/anita-shreve-obituary/188605127 

also http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/anita-shreve-obituary?pid=188605127  Anita was 71 years of age at the time of her passing last Thursday.  Information below indicates that services were private.  Anita is survived by her husband, children and grandchildren plus many dear friends and book fans.  

Should more information be received we will be sure to pass it along.

            Thank you,

                ~ Carol for the PCN   

 

From: David L. Roberts  ...Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 7:21 PM.... Subject: Death of Anita Shreve

CARES AND CONCERNSInformation about the death of Anita Shreve, daughter of the late retired NE/DL Captain Richard H. Shreve, 82, who was born 12/26/1922, hired by NE 12/18/1957 and died 7/23/2005.

Anita Shreve, 71, best-selling N.H. author of ‘The Pilot’s Wife’

DAVID LEVENSON/GETTY IMAGES/FILE 2014
Ms. Shreve viewed her work as a “marriage of story and language that I think is almost ancient.’’
By Bryan Marquard GLOBE STAFF  MARCH 30, 2018

There was for Anita Shreve a visceral connection to writing. Ever tugged to blank pages and sharp pencils, she wrote some 20 books, most of them novels that included the best-sellers “The Pilot’s Wife” and “The Weight of Water.”

“The creative impulse, the thing that gets deep inside me, goes from the brain to the fingertips,” she said four years ago in an interview with The Writer magazine. “When you’re writing by hand, even when you’re not consciously thinking about it, you’re constructing sentences in the best way possible.”

Ms. Shreve, who was beloved by fans around the world for her novels and for encouraging other writers, died of cancer Thursday in her home in southern New Hampshire. She was 71 and had announced nearly a year ago that she was ill when she canceled upcoming public appearances in order to undergo chemotherapy.

“This is a hard post to write. I have so been looking forward to going on book tour for my new novel, ‘The Stars are Fire,’ and had hoped to meet many of you on my travels,” she wrote then on Facebook.

Having become a best-selling author with 1997’s “The Weight of Water,” Ms. Shreve stepped into the multimillion-copies sold realm when Oprah Winfrey chose 1998’s “The Pilot’s Wife” for her book club. The experience turned Ms. Shreve into an internationally admired author.

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The Washington Post’s books editor Ron Charles told The Writer in 2014 that she was “one of the most literary authors who can reach out to a popular audience.”

“She wrote beautifully melodic and nuanced prose. I admired every book of hers,” her publisher, Michael Pietsch, who is CEO of Hachette Book Group, said by phone Thursday night. “She brought a great mind to the observation of emotions.”

Setting book after book in New England, Ms. Shreve used prose that was both thoughtful and unsparing to offer intimate glimpses of the emotional landscape of her characters and, not incidentally, the region’s topography.

Love was a theme, major or minor, in many of her books, and Ms. Shreve was surprised more writers didn’t sense its narrative possibilities. “Love is a very devalued subject to be writing about these days,” she told the Globe in 1998.

Of that theme, a character in 2001’s “The Last Time They Met” says: “I believe it to be the central drama of our lives. … All love is doomed, seen in the light of death.”

Reviewing that novel, the Globe’s then-chief book critic, Gail Caldwell, said Ms. Shreve “can render her characters’ dark interiors with a tenderness void of judgment, thereby capturing the essential frailty of the human condition. In the world according to Shreve, a lark’s refrain is made exquisite by the mortality that accompanies it.”

At times, actual historical events affected the lives of Ms. Shreve’s characters, or wove their way into a story’s tapestry.

“I used to marvel at her research that was seamlessly integrated into each book,” said her friend Elinor Lipman, who also is a novelist. “The research that she did showed, but not in such a way that you felt the index cards being shuffled and flapping. It was all about the right time and the right fact.”

No stranger to the geography and natural setting of her books, Ms. Shreve grew up in Dedham and graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in English.

She was the oldest of three daughters born to Richard Shreve, an airline pilot, and the former Bibiana Kennedy, a homemaker.

After Tufts, Ms. Shreve was a teacher first, until the urge to write could not be stilled. “I taught for five years, first in Reading and then in Hingham,” she told the Globe in 2007. “I actually liked teaching a lot, but I vividly remember thinking that I had to devote myself full time to my writing and I had a sense of urgency about it, so I quit midyear to write short stories.”

An early story, “Past the Island, Drifting,” was awarded an O. Henry Prize in the mid-1970s. Still, she worried she wouldn’t be able to make a living writing fiction, and turned much attention initially to nonfiction. Ms. Shreve worked for an English-language magazine in Nairobi, where her then-husband was in graduate school, and wrote for everything from Cosmopolitan magazine to The New York Times.

An award-winning Times Sunday magazine cover story on working mothers led her to write the 1987 book “Remaking Motherhood.” Another Times piece led to the 1989 book “Women Together, Women Alone.” She published her first novel, “Eden Close,” the same year.

“The Weight of Water” brought critical acclaim and sales, and it was short-listed for the Orange prize, an award in the United Kingdom for the best full-length novel written in English by a woman.

“My work is a marriage of story and language that I think is almost ancient,” she told the Globe in 1998. “That’s the tradition I would like to be seen in. One of my favorite comments from readers is: ‘You ruined my night. I stayed up all night reading, and I was late for work.’ ”

She had no use for labels, whether her work was called commercial or women’s fiction. “I hate the term. I’ve hated the term for years,” she told the Globe in 2010, when she published her novel “Rescue,” which she saw as a case in point. “I have heard people say that if they hadn’t seen my name on the cover, they would never have guessed that the book was written by a woman. It should simply be called fiction.”

Her writing was also just plain hard work, at least for the author, both physically and creatively. “I write by hand, transfer to a computer, print it out, and then edit by hand,” she told the Globe. “None of the important work is done on a computer.”

Working as a journalist had offered the lesson that there’s no time to spare, as was evidenced by her prodigious output. “I learned that writing is not precious,” she told The Writer. “There’s no waiting for the muse to come.”

Ms. Shreve wore her international success lightly, said Pietsch.

“She moved through the world with graciousness and poise, and without a large sense of herself,” he added. “People were deeply drawn to her. She was a person you felt very comfortable revealing yourself to.”

“She was such a good friend and she was so generous about other people’s writing,” Lipman said. “It’s really hard for me to imagine a world without Anita.”

Ms. Shreve, whose previous marriages ended in divorce, was married to John Osborn. She previously had lived in Longmeadow, and also in Maine, before relocating more recently to southern New Hampshire. International fame made privacy an issue after the Oprah Winfrey Book Club embraced, “The Pilot’s Wife.”

In addition to her husband, Ms. Shreve leaves her two children, Katherine H. Clemans and Chris Clemans; Osborn’s children from a previous marriage, Whitney Osborn, Allison Leary, and Molly Jacobson; her sisters, Janet Martland and Betsy Shreve-Gibb; and three grandchildren.

Services will be private.

“She lived for her family. To be around her was to feel loved, supported, and lucky to know her,” Ms. Shreve’s family said in a statement.

“This may surprise her readers, as her fiction often centered around tragedy, but she loved to laugh, and her smile lit up the room. Her joy was of the infectious variety, and she was never happier than when she was sitting at home on the coast of Maine, talking with friends and family and looking out at the water. When she was not writing, she was knitting, painting, gardening, hunting for sea glass, and watching the Red Sox.”

Indeed, her friend the novelist Mameve Medwed said Ms. Shreve “hardly missed an opening day.”

Medwed added that Ms. Shreve was “a warm, funny, and supportive friend. She was a rabid anti-Trumper, a political junkie of the liberal persuasion, and a person of an unparalleled generosity to her fellow writers.”

To other writers, published and successful or merely toiling and aspiring, she offered three words of encouragement that her father had used to nudge along her youthful writing efforts.

“My father once told me, ‘Don’t give up,’” she recalled in 2008 for the London newspaper The Guardian. “It’s advice that has served me well.”

Bryan Marquard can be reached at mailto:bmarquard@globe.com.

DL Capt. David Curry Porter Jr.

~ IN MEMORY ~

Military veteran, DL Capt. David Curry Porter Jr.

March 19, 1935 ~ March 29, 2018

 

Word from family has reached us with the passing of Delta Golden Wings member retired Delta pilot Captain David Curry Porter Jr., age 83.  Captain Porter joined Delta Air lines 05-09-1967.  He is survived by his wife Rev. Frieda Porter (Fritz) plus many other family members and dear friends.  Services for Captain Porter are planned for tomorrow April 4th in Sandy Springs, Georgia....please see below.

Captain Porter’s obituary may be viewed online at https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/sandy-springs-ga/david-porter-7808288 

also at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/david-porter-obituary?pid=188614844 

For those wishing to send a personal note, condolences may be sent to the family at

165 Spalding Mill NE , Sandy Springs GA 30350-4523.

            Thank you,

                ~ Carol for the PCN 

 

Obituary................................

Capt. David Curry Porter, Jr., age 83, of Sandy Springs, Georgia, passed away late afternoon on Thursday, March 29th, 2018. He was born on March 19, 1935 in Rome, GA and was reared in Cedar Town, GA. He passed away peacefully at home with his adoring wife, Frieda Nordmann Porter (Fritz) and his daughter, Meredith Wood, with him all day. Mr. Porter aka Dave and the Dimpled-Darling Captain Doll, is described by his only beloved brother, Charles, as “…in every way, wonderful. He was caring, smart, kind, capable, understanding, compassionate, helpful, sensitive, clever, witty and on and on.” His granddaughter, Brittany Taylor Browne, describes him as “a wonderful man with so many attributes that I admire. He knew everyone’s detailed story (even the cashier at the grocery store) because he truly cared about people and their details.” David fought the good fight of faith with his health in home rehab for almost 4 years. Among his family and friends, his remarkable recoveries so many times are legendary. He loved life and always proclaimed his quality of life was wonderful. His faith in Jesus Christ as his personal Savior gave him the strength and will to live. He knew “…there is a time to be born and a time to die.” He was prepared to leave when He was called home. He is with our risen Lord! He graduated from Cedar Town High School in 1953 and remained very close with many of these classmates until his death. He graduated from Emory University in 1957. He entered the Navy pre-flight School in 1958, and Lt Porter was a Navy pilot for 9 years. Capt. Porter flew for Delta Air Lines for 28 years, retiring in 1995. Mr. Porter is survived by his wife, Frieda Porter of Sandy Springs, GA, his two daughters, Dr. Katherine Taylor (Marietta, GA) and Tisha Phillips (Wales), his step-daughter, Meredith Wood (Alpharetta, GA) and his step-son, Bill Wood (Decatur, GA). He is also survived by his brother, Charles Porter (VT), 11 grandchildren, Brittany Browne, Stephen David Taylor, Katie Taylor Gajadhar, Shannon, Jonathan David, Rebekah and Grace Lillie Phillips, Chance and Blake Cates and Casey and Collin Wood, and 4 great grandchildren, Isabella, Lilliana and Benjamin Browne and Colton Taylor. The funeral service will take place on Wednesday, April 4th at Sandy Springs Chapel and Funeral Home, 136 Mt. Vernon Hwy, Sandy Springs, GA at 2 PM with Pastor Dennis B. Lacy and Rabbi Kevin Solomon officiating. Receiving and viewing will begin at 1 PM.

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From: LRMporter@aol.com

Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 3:23 PM

Subject: Death: Capt. David C. Porter, Jr. Obit

 

I wanted to get the word out that my beloved husband  David passed away on Thursday, March 29th.

I have attached the obituary with more info.

Thank you,

Fritz

Rev. Frieda Porter (Fritz)   lrmporter@aol.com

Lillie Rose Ministries International

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