Kathryn McDowell

Posted on: Jan 21, 2020 at 2:36 AM

Posted on: Nov 21, 2019 at 10:56 AM

Hi - I'm just wondering what this button does in addition to notifying everyone of birthdays. So - what's new for me?
Next May I will become a great-great aunt. My great nephew and wife are expecting. Loving genealogy studies as I do, that's pretty cool!
Just FYI, Ya'll

Posted on: Sep 21, 2019 at 10:15 AM

Posted on: Sep 10, 2019 at 10:42 PM

YAAAAYYYYYY! Hope to see you in October. K

Posted on: Sep 02, 2019 at 10:04 AM

Hey Byron - sure wish I could see you and Donna at the reunion. But I know you two have traveled a bunch the last two years so perhaps time with a deeeear oolllllld childhood friend just isn’t in the cards. Sigh. Love ya man......anyway. ??

Welcome, welcome, Amador!
Sure hope you can make it in October.
Have fun sifting around the site for pictures, news, and chatter.
Kathryn

Posted on: Aug 15, 2019 at 6:11 AM

Sharon 2017, 45th Reunion

YAY! Lin is on the SHS Site! Welcome, Welcome. Hope you have fun with it. K

Steven Dwight Clayton     Birth   28 Jan 1951     Death  21 Jan 1982 (aged 30)    Apache County, Arizona

BURIAL      Green Acres Memorial Park Scottsdale

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday, January 24, 1982     Phoenix pilot is found dead in wreckage of light plane.     A Phoenix man was found dead Saturday in the wreckage of a light plane east of Show Low, the Apache County Sheriff’s Office said.  The victim was identified as Steven Dwight Clayton, 30, address unavailable. He apparently was the only person on board. The wreckage of the plane, which disappeared Thursday night, was found about two miles south of Marshell Flat, between McNary and Vernon, officers said. The aircraft had disappeared on a flight from Borger, Texas, to Deer Valley Airport in north Phoenix, with a planned stop at the St. Johns airfield. A search was launched after authorities at Pinetop had picked up a signal from an emergency locater. A search plane located the wreckage about 10 a.m.

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday, January 27, 1982     SCOTTSDALE – Services for Steven D. Clayton, 30, who was a charter pilot and a flight attendant for Republic Airlines, will be 2 p.m. today in Shumway’s Lakeshore Mortuary, 1815 S. Dobson, Mesa.

Mr. Clayton was injured fatally Jan. 21, 1982, in an accident at the Show Low Airport. He came to Scottsdale 27 years ago from Oklahoma and graduated from Scottsdale High School in 1969 and received his bachelors of science degree in business administration at Arizona State University in 1975. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Survivors include his wife, Cheryl; mother, Dorene; two sisters and a brother; and two grandmothers. He was the son of the late Billy Elmer Fritts (1921–1953)  and the adopted son of the late Tom Henry Clayton.  

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I continued my research on some of our Obits and not only discovered info on Steve Clayton’s airplane crash (see attached) but also found that his birth father died in Korea when Steve was just 18 months old.  Dad was 30 yrs of age.  He was raised by Clayton (and apparently adopted by him).  You can read it all on this site: http://www.militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=224402   Be sure to click on the additional tabs after “Bio” to see his medals (including the Distinquished Service Cross) and commendations.

Cheri - Thank you for jumping in!