Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Pilot Claude Coley Brought Home for Burial, June 24, 1926

Coley’s Body Will be Taken to Rockwell for Burial

Salisbury, June 22—Claude Coley, youthful aviator who died today at Norfolk from injuries received yesterday when his airplane crashed while he was carrying a passenger from Norfolk to Elizabeth City, was a former Salisbury boy and his body will be brought here tomorrow. The body will be taken to an aunt’s, Mrs. Paul Bost, at Rockwell, and the funeral will be conducted from organ church Wednesday afternoon.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, June 24, 1926

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