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 Three countians die in plane crash

           LIVERPOOL TOWNSHIP

The bodies of three Medina residents were found early Thursday in the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed in northern Medina County Tuesday.

            The dead were identified as James H. Northey, 64, pilot of the plane and his wife, Julie, 62, of 6111 Smith Road and William Basinger, 68, 6859 Stone Road. They were killed instantly in the crash, according to county Coroner Andrew Karson. Cause of the crash is believed to be due to pilot error related to poor weather conditions, said Sgt. Mike Quinn of the Ohio Highway Patrol. A Federal Aviation Administration, spokesman said the passengers were enroute to Put-In-Bay for a fishing trip. The plane was destroyed on impact and pieces were strewn throughout the wreckage site. “The plane hit nose down and crashed in a cartwheel motion” said John Jenkins, an FAA inspector. “It opened up like when you put a Styrofoam cup on the ground and stomped on it,” Jenkins said. The plane crashed at the edge of a field near some woods on property owned by Oscar Reinke, 5885 Boston Road, between 7 and 8am Tuesday. Reinke’s son-in-law, Russ Petchler of 5862 Boston Road, discovered the wreckage of the four-passenger Lark Commander around 8 am Thursday when he was chopping wood on Reinke’s property. “I was back there and come upon metal and couldn’t think what it was. I thought maybe it was a plane when I saw the wing and knew that there’d be a body somewhere” Petchler said. He said he heard a noise about 7:30 Tuesday morning but thought it was a motorcycle. Carol Weinert, who lives about a half mile from the crash site, said she heard a plane about 7:15 Tuesday morning. “It was real hazy and foggy out and raining pretty hard and when I was getting dressed to go to work I thought I heard a small plane overhead,” Mrs. Weinert said. “It sounded like its engine cut off and started up again a couple of times, then there was dead silence. Then I heard two, hollow thumps,” she said. “I ran outside and expected if there was a crash there’d be smoke or something. But there wasn’t,” Mrs. Weinert said. “I didn’t call anyone because I just didn’t know who to call,” she said. Dennis Conrad, manager of Freedom Field Airport in SharonTownship, said the plane was owned by Myron Smith of 5590 Hamilton Road, Medina.

Deceased: Julie Ruth Northey

 

Date: July 21, 1981

 

Copy of obituary:
 

Julie Ruth Bohley Northey, 62, of 6111 W. Smith Rd., Medina died Tuesday, July 21, 1981 in an airplane crash in Liverpool Twp. The lifetime resident of Medina County was born in York Twp.; she retired last year after teaching in Wadsworth High School for 26 years. Mrs. Northey was a member of the First Baptist Church of Medina where she was a Christian education teacher for 26 years. 

 
Mrs. Northey was married to James Henry Northey who died in the same plane crash. They are survived by a daughter, Sharon Maar of Brunswick: sons, the Rev. Timothy Northey of Shiocton, Wisc., Theodore Northey of Rittman; mother Bessie Bohley of Medina; a grandson; sisters, Elenor Gayer of Medina, Mary Ann Baxter of Oregon and a brother, Paul Bohley of Medina.

A memorial service will be at 2 pm Monday in the First Baptist Church, 3646 Medina Rd. Medina with the Rev Max Deffenbaugh officiating.