OBITUARY from Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard; Thursday, November 15, 1979; page 18c:

GRAHAM - Elton A. Graham of 89377 Old Mowhawk Road, Springfield, died November 12, 1979, in Salem at the age of 35.  He was born April 21, 1944, in Idaho.  He was married to Connie Dayne, December 31, 1976, in Eugene.  He was with the National Guard.  He was a forester with the national forest service for 8 years and was employed by Pope and Talbot.  He had lived in this community for 12 years.  He was a member of the Springfield Elks and the Oakridge Jaycee's.  He is survived by his wife, Connie of Springfield; 3 children; Karena Adrienne Graham at home, Tera Lee Graham and Kelly Graham, both of Springfield; his father, Adron Graham and step-mother, Elsie Graham both of Midvale, Idaho; his mother, Mary May of Pendleton; one sister, Adrienna Talbot of Preston, Idaho; numerous other relatives .  Funeral services will be Friday, November 18 at 1 p.m. in BUELL CHAPEL with Reverend John Gayle of Fairfield Baptist Church officiating.  Interment Oakridge Cemetery.  Those who wish may donate to the Elks National Foundation in his memory.

Article from a Portland, Oregon newspaper, November 1979:   

Three Lane Men Die In Salem Airplane Crash.  >From Wire Service Reports.     >SALEM - Three Lane County men were killed Monday when their light plane missed an instrument landing attempt at fog-shrouded McNary Field here and slammed into a house occupied by six persons, including an infant sleeping in her crib.     >Police identified the victims as the pilot, James Morrow Savage, Jr., 53, of 88507 Ellmaker Road, Veneta, who was flying the Cessna 310 twin-engine aircraft for McKenzie Flying Service Inc., and two passengers, Elton Adrian Graham, 35, of 89377 Old Mohawk Road, Springfield, and Richard Delos Eldredge, Jr., 31, of 303 E. 72nd St., Springfield.     >Savage, an experienced pilot in the Eugene-Springfield area, had been working part time for McKenzie Flying Service since July after having been chief pilot for Eugene Aviation.  He had piloted the two passengers on a business trip to John Day, but the plane did not land there.  Savage apparently tried to land at Salem on the return trip because it was considered a better alternative to fog-blanketed Mahlon Sweet Airport in Eugene.     >Investigation of the accident was scheduled to begin today, officials said.  Ken Shake, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Seattle, said the airport tower maintained good communication with the plane at all times and that there was no immediate explanation for why the crash occurred.     >No one on the ground was injured when the plane went down about a mile south of the runway at 8:30 p.m.     >Jim and Kay Dickerson were in the living room of their home in southeast Salem when the light plane went down in a field near their home and careened     >Turn to SALEM, Page 3A   (Sorry!  I didn't get the rest of this article.  ~gerrie)

Article from the Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday, November 15, 1979, page 19c: 

Cause of crash won't be known for month     >The official cause of a plane crash that killed three Lane County men Monday night near Salem won't be known for about 30 days, according to an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board in Seattle.     >Meanwhile, separate funerals will be held on Friday for two of the three men who died in the accident.     >Killed were James Morrow Savage, Jr., 53, of Veneta; Elton Adrian Graham, 35, of Springfield, and Richard Delos Eldredge, Jr., 31, also of Springfield.     >The twin-engine Cessna 310, piloted by Savage, missed an instrument-landing attempt at foggy McNary Field in Salem and slammed into a house near the airport.  No one on the ground was injured.  Savage, an experienced pilot who was working part-time for McKenzie Flying Service Inc., had flown the two men to John Day on a timber-buying trip for Pope and Talbot Lumber Co.     >Previous reports from the Federal Aviation Administration incorrectly stated the plane did not land at John Day.     >Investigators for the transportation safety board have documented the appearance of the wreckage at the crash site but still have more research to do before forwarding their evidence to the transportation safety board, which will determine the official cause of the crash.     >The funeral for Eldredge will be at 11 a.m. on Friday at Lincoln Willamette Funeral Home in Portland, with burial in Lincoln Memorial Park.  Eldredge was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and graduated from Central Oregon Community College in Bend.     >He worked for the U.S. Forest Service and for West Coast Orient and, for the past nine months, for Pope and Talbot as a forester.  He was an avid skier, a sports-car enthusiast, and had an instrument rating as a private pilot.     >Eldredge is survived by his wife, Julie, of Springfield; by his father, Richard Eldredge Sr., of Milwaukie; by a brother, Paul, and two sisters, Ann Boechler and Kris Miller, all of Portland, and by his grandmother, Mrs. Edgar Eldredge of New York State.     >The funeral for Graham will be at 1 p.m. on Friday at Buell Chapel in Springfield, with burial at Oakridge Cemetery.     >Graham was born in Idaho and lived in the Springfield area for 12 years.  He was a member of the National Guard and worked as a forester for the U.S. Forest Service for eight years before going to work for Pope and Talbot.  He was a member of the Springfield Elks Club and of the Oakridge Jaycees.     >Graham is survived by his wife, Connie, and three daughters, Karena Adrienne Graham, Tera Lee Graham and Kelly Graham, all of Springfield; by his father, Adron Graham and stepmother, Elsie, both of Midvale, Idaho; by his mother, Mary May, of Pendleton; by a sister, Adrienna Talbot of Preston, Idaho, and by numerous other relatives.