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Lt. Charles D. Stansbury, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stansbury, of Beckley, died in a Los Angeles, Cal., hospital yes terday of injuries sustained short ly before in an automobile acci dent. His automobile collided with an other vehicle at a street intersec tion early Saturday morning. A passenger in the other machine, Sergeant Frank Hangar, was hos pitalized with possible internal in juries, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Further details were not re ceived here. News of his death was conveyed to his father in a telegram from Lt. Stansbury’s commanding of ficer, Captain William R. Walker, who said: “I deeply regret to inform you that your son Charles was killed as a result of an automobile ac cident at approximately 1 o’clock this morning, November 13, in Los Angeles, Cal. Lt. Stansbury’s wife has been notified of this tragic ac cident. The entire command joins me in expressing our sincere sympathy.” A fighter plane pilot, he was stationed at Glendale, Cal., but with Mrs. Stansbury and an in fant son, Charles Seamead, Jr., he resided at Van Nuys, Cal. Born in Beckley January 11, 1918, he had a brilliant football career at Woodrow Wilson high school before going to Greenbrier Military school, where for two years he started every game as an “end.” He enrolled in West Virginia university Sept. 12, 1938, and for two years was a member of its football team. The next year he attended the citizens’ military training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., and won a variety of honors and awards. He was made a sergeant of his company at the beginning of the camp, and a few days later See Story on Page Five LT. CHAS. STANSBURY
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Beckley Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Nov 14, 1943
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