Here's my handful of memories of Laddie Hamilton. Laddie got a new Chervolet Impala convertible for his 16th birthday and drove it to my house in Ferguson to show it off. It was several decades before I achieved such a new car. Laddie and I were co-managers of the A baseball team in our junior year, 1959. He always talked about wanting to manage hotels. After our 50th reunion in 2010, I wrote to Laddie and found out that he and I had been in artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma at the same time in 1968 without knowing it at the time. He was in a regular unit and I was in Artillery OCS. I hope he had a good life.
I too remember Laddie Hamilton as a classmate and friend.
I especially remember his Father one Saturday Laddie and me out to the Ozark Airlines DC 3 maintenance shop. Once there his father, the President of Ozark, took us on a radio test flight in one of the DC 3s.. I sat in the right seat for a few minutes and actually flew the airplane. Laddie also got to fly for a few minutes. I believe this was the start of my interest in aviation leading to my becoming a private pilot in later years.
Bill Parker
Here's my handful of memories of Laddie Hamilton. Laddie got a new Chervolet Impala convertible for his 16th birthday and drove it to my house in Ferguson to show it off. It was several decades before I achieved such a new car. Laddie and I were co-managers of the A baseball team in our junior year, 1959. He always talked about wanting to manage hotels. After our 50th reunion in 2010, I wrote to Laddie and found out that he and I had been in artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma at the same time in 1968 without knowing it at the time. He was in a regular unit and I was in Artillery OCS. I hope he had a good life.
Bradford Gamblin
I too remember Laddie Hamilton as a classmate and friend.
I especially remember his Father one Saturday Laddie and me out to the Ozark Airlines DC 3 maintenance shop. Once there his father, the President of Ozark, took us on a radio test flight in one of the DC 3s.. I sat in the right seat for a few minutes and actually flew the airplane. Laddie also got to fly for a few minutes. I believe this was the start of my interest in aviation leading to my becoming a private pilot in later years.
Brad Gamblin