POPOVICH JOHN GARY #2

2LT John Gary Popovich was a potential member who died during training before going to Vietnam on 09/02/1967 at the age of 25.6 from A/C accident
Mineral Wells, TX
Flight Class 67-26
Date of Birth 01/09/1942
Served in the U.S. Army
This information was provided by Gary Roush & Barry Geller

More detail on this person: AGE 25 YEARS "It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain." (Words taken from below his photo in the LHHS 1960, THE SIGNER.) beloved son of JOHN and RITA (CARNOT) POPOVICH 2nd LT. IN THE U.S. ARMY John was tragically killed in the crash of a private plane near Yoakum, Texas. Besides his parents, John leaves his two sisters, Karen and Michelle; his grandmother, Theresa Popovich of Wallingford; his grandfather, Leo Carnot of Meriden; and several aunts and uncles. A solemn high mass of requiem was held at SS. Peter & Paul Church in Wallingford, officiated by the Rev. Stanley Kaminski. Military honors were accorded by the firing squad of the Ceremonial Section Unit from Fort Hamilton, New York. Arrangements were under the direction of the J.W. Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 209 Center Street, Wallingford, CT. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN 3 Fort Wolters Lieutenants Killed - Special to the Express News Yoakum - A single-engine private plane crashed in bad weather four miles north of here early Saturday, killing three Fort Wolters Army Lieutenants and the wife of one of the officers. Killed were 2nd LT Simpson Ray, 23, and his wife, Susan Lander Ray, 19, both of Houston; 2nd Lt. Michael J Radulovich, 21 and 2nd LT. John Gary Popovich, 25. Fort Wolters is at Mineral Wells. The couple had been married only about a month, and the four were on a flight from Palacios to Rockport. Sheriff Ronnie Dodds said the Piper Cherokee plane struck a power line inmisty rain and crashed in brushy range country about 50 feet off a graveled road. First word of the crash came from members of an unidentified farm family whole home is close by. Dodds sai "the plane was broken up pretty badly-wreckage scattered over a quarter mile - but it didn't burn.

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Date posted on this site: 03/10/2024