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Wednesday,
February 23, 2000:
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From
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Morning Edition
Thursday, February 5, 1959
Section 1, Page 11
Plane
With Body Is Grounded
Services
Pending Here For Singing Star Buddy Holly
Funeral
arrangements for Buddy Holly, 22-year-old Lubbock rock 'n roll
singer and recording star who was killed in an airplane crash
Tuesday in Iowa, were pending here late Wednesday night.
The singer's
father, L. O. Holley, 1606 39th St., said a chartered plane which
left Lubbock to return the body was grounded at Des Moines by
weather.
The body will
be flown from Mason City, Iowa, to Lubbock as soon as weather
is favorable, Holley said.
Brother
Reports Delay
An
older brother, Larry, 4803 17th St., called Wednesday night from
Mason City of the chartered plane's grounding at Des Moines. He
and J. E. Weir, 2307 49th St, a brother in law, flew to Mason
City to make arrangements.
Sanders Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements here. The singer's father said
services probably would be conducted Friday. Time and place were
not announced.
Young Holly's
widow, the former Maria Ellna Santiago, a bride of less than six
months, arrived in Lubbock by airliner from New York at 4:40 p.m.
Wednesday. She was accompanied by an aunt and went immediately
to the Holley home.
Family of
the singer reported telephone calls and inquiries from all over
the nation. Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers singing and recording
duo informed the Holley family he would attend funeral services
here.
A plane from
West Texas Aircraft here took off early Wednesday for Mason City.
It was the one grounded at Des Moines.
It was reported
a charter plane was en route from Houston to Mason City to return
the body of Jiles B. (Big Bopper) Richardson, 28, to Beaumont.
He was another victim of the crash in which Holly was killed.
Another entertainer,
Ritchie Valens, 17, of Los Angeles, was killed in the crash. Dead
also was the pilot, Roger Peterson, 21, of Clear Lake, Iowa.
The three
recording stars were killed early Tuesday when their four-place
chartered plane crashed in a snow-covered farm field near Mason
City, Iowa. They had just completed an engagement in Clear Lake,
Iowa, and were headed for Fargo, N.D. Others in the troupe took
a chartered bus.
Remaining
entertainers in the troupe staged a show Tuesday night in Moorhead,
Minn., in a "show must go on" tradition. Attendance was 2,000.
Two shows
had been scheduled at Moorhead but only one was held. Members
paid tribute to the victims during the performance.
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