Charles was born to Wesley William and Laura E. Seay Pitts in Copeville, Texas at his Grandfather & Grandmother Seay's home.
BROTHER: James Marion Pitts
SISTER: Kathelyn Berniece (Pitts) Matzeder
2 Half SISTERS:
Wanda Lynn (Pitts/Hawk) Carmichael
Nancy Jean (Wallace) Wilson Brewer*
*(aka Victoria Ann Pitts-before adoption)
PATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Charles Christopher Pitts
PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Molly (Cooper) Pitts
MATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Elzy Seay
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Carrie (Poteet) Seay
Charles was a 1st. Lt. U.S.A.F. W.W. II
Killed during a specialized training mission,
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
First Lieutenant, 610 Photographic Training Squadron, Maxwell Field, Alabama.--Killed in crash of B-24E Liberator #42-7416, three miles south of Tuskegee Municipal Airport, Alabama.
Three other airmen also perished.
In Memory of Charles
HIGH FLIGHT
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high un-trespassed sanctity of space
Written by a pilot — John Gillespie Magee, Jr
three months before he died in a plane crash on 11 Dec 1941
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Sunday, April 16, 1944 Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) Section: I Page: Twelve
BURIAL OF FLIER PLANNED IN DALLAS
Funeral services will be held here for First Lt. Charles Wesley Pitts, 23, of 4222 Cabell Drive, who was killed in an airplane crash at Prattville, Alabama Friday.
A native of Copeville, Collin county, Lieutenant Pitts moved later with his parents to Leavenworth, KS., where he was graduated from high school in 1940. He came to Dallas and worked in the traffic office of Western Union until entering service in June 1942.
His wife, the former Miss Sybil Hawkins, a lifelong resident of Dallas, survives him, in addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pitts, Leavenworth; a brother, James Pitts of the Marines; a sister, Mrs. Kathelyn Matzeder, Leavenworth; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitts, Garland. He was a member of the Lakewood-Belmont Baptist Church.
Time and place of funeral will be announced after the body arrives from Montgomery.
Obit sent courtesy of Mindy
BROTHER: James Marion Pitts
SISTER: Kathelyn Berniece (Pitts) Matzeder
2 Half SISTERS:
Wanda Lynn (Pitts/Hawk) Carmichael
Nancy Jean (Wallace) Wilson Brewer*
*(aka Victoria Ann Pitts-before adoption)
PATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Charles Christopher Pitts
PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Molly (Cooper) Pitts
MATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Elzy Seay
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Carrie (Poteet) Seay
Charles was a 1st. Lt. U.S.A.F. W.W. II
Killed during a specialized training mission,
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
First Lieutenant, 610 Photographic Training Squadron, Maxwell Field, Alabama.--Killed in crash of B-24E Liberator #42-7416, three miles south of Tuskegee Municipal Airport, Alabama.
Three other airmen also perished.
In Memory of Charles
HIGH FLIGHT
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high un-trespassed sanctity of space
Written by a pilot — John Gillespie Magee, Jr
three months before he died in a plane crash on 11 Dec 1941
*•✿◕◕✿•*•✿◕◕✿•*
Sunday, April 16, 1944 Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) Section: I Page: Twelve
BURIAL OF FLIER PLANNED IN DALLAS
Funeral services will be held here for First Lt. Charles Wesley Pitts, 23, of 4222 Cabell Drive, who was killed in an airplane crash at Prattville, Alabama Friday.
A native of Copeville, Collin county, Lieutenant Pitts moved later with his parents to Leavenworth, KS., where he was graduated from high school in 1940. He came to Dallas and worked in the traffic office of Western Union until entering service in June 1942.
His wife, the former Miss Sybil Hawkins, a lifelong resident of Dallas, survives him, in addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pitts, Leavenworth; a brother, James Pitts of the Marines; a sister, Mrs. Kathelyn Matzeder, Leavenworth; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitts, Garland. He was a member of the Lakewood-Belmont Baptist Church.
Time and place of funeral will be announced after the body arrives from Montgomery.
Obit sent courtesy of Mindy
Charles was born to Wesley William and Laura E. Seay Pitts in Copeville, Texas at his Grandfather & Grandmother Seay's home.
BROTHER: James Marion Pitts
SISTER: Kathelyn Berniece (Pitts) Matzeder
2 Half SISTERS:
Wanda Lynn (Pitts/Hawk) Carmichael
Nancy Jean (Wallace) Wilson Brewer*
*(aka Victoria Ann Pitts-before adoption)
PATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Charles Christopher Pitts
PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Molly (Cooper) Pitts
MATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Elzy Seay
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Carrie (Poteet) Seay
Charles was a 1st. Lt. U.S.A.F. W.W. II
Killed during a specialized training mission,
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
First Lieutenant, 610 Photographic Training Squadron, Maxwell Field, Alabama.--Killed in crash of B-24E Liberator #42-7416, three miles south of Tuskegee Municipal Airport, Alabama.
Three other airmen also perished.
In Memory of Charles
HIGH FLIGHT
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high un-trespassed sanctity of space
Written by a pilot — John Gillespie Magee, Jr
three months before he died in a plane crash on 11 Dec 1941
*•✿◕◕✿•*•✿◕◕✿•*
Sunday, April 16, 1944 Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) Section: I Page: Twelve
BURIAL OF FLIER PLANNED IN DALLAS
Funeral services will be held here for First Lt. Charles Wesley Pitts, 23, of 4222 Cabell Drive, who was killed in an airplane crash at Prattville, Alabama Friday.
A native of Copeville, Collin county, Lieutenant Pitts moved later with his parents to Leavenworth, KS., where he was graduated from high school in 1940. He came to Dallas and worked in the traffic office of Western Union until entering service in June 1942.
His wife, the former Miss Sybil Hawkins, a lifelong resident of Dallas, survives him, in addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pitts, Leavenworth; a brother, James Pitts of the Marines; a sister, Mrs. Kathelyn Matzeder, Leavenworth; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitts, Garland. He was a member of the Lakewood-Belmont Baptist Church.
Time and place of funeral will be announced after the body arrives from Montgomery.
Obit sent courtesy of Mindy
BROTHER: James Marion Pitts
SISTER: Kathelyn Berniece (Pitts) Matzeder
2 Half SISTERS:
Wanda Lynn (Pitts/Hawk) Carmichael
Nancy Jean (Wallace) Wilson Brewer*
*(aka Victoria Ann Pitts-before adoption)
PATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Charles Christopher Pitts
PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Molly (Cooper) Pitts
MATERNAL GRANDFATHER: Elzy Seay
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER: Carrie (Poteet) Seay
Charles was a 1st. Lt. U.S.A.F. W.W. II
Killed during a specialized training mission,
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
First Lieutenant, 610 Photographic Training Squadron, Maxwell Field, Alabama.--Killed in crash of B-24E Liberator #42-7416, three miles south of Tuskegee Municipal Airport, Alabama.
Three other airmen also perished.
In Memory of Charles
HIGH FLIGHT
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high un-trespassed sanctity of space
Written by a pilot — John Gillespie Magee, Jr
three months before he died in a plane crash on 11 Dec 1941
*•✿◕◕✿•*•✿◕◕✿•*
Sunday, April 16, 1944 Paper: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) Section: I Page: Twelve
BURIAL OF FLIER PLANNED IN DALLAS
Funeral services will be held here for First Lt. Charles Wesley Pitts, 23, of 4222 Cabell Drive, who was killed in an airplane crash at Prattville, Alabama Friday.
A native of Copeville, Collin county, Lieutenant Pitts moved later with his parents to Leavenworth, KS., where he was graduated from high school in 1940. He came to Dallas and worked in the traffic office of Western Union until entering service in June 1942.
His wife, the former Miss Sybil Hawkins, a lifelong resident of Dallas, survives him, in addition to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Pitts, Leavenworth; a brother, James Pitts of the Marines; a sister, Mrs. Kathelyn Matzeder, Leavenworth; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitts, Garland. He was a member of the Lakewood-Belmont Baptist Church.
Time and place of funeral will be announced after the body arrives from Montgomery.
Obit sent courtesy of Mindy
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