5 PERSONS FEARED DROWNED IN BOAT MISHAP ON COAST
COOS BAY – Two bodies on the beach near the south jetty during the weekend were identified today as victims of a charter fishing boat that overturned Oct 1 at Winchester Bay with eight persons aboard.
The bodies were identified as those of Marquita Wallace, 13, Springfield and Kenneth Abbott, about 45, Winchester Bay.
Abbott's body was discovered Saturday and the girl's body Sunday night.
Three persons were rescued following the accident and one body was recovered immediately after accident.
Still missing was Dale Croften, 26, Winchester Bay. The body of Ted Berry, formally of Laguna Beach, California, was found later in the Umpqua River.
Abbott and Croften were crew members. The boat was returning over a storm-tossed bar from a salmon fishing trip when it capsized. BEND BULLETIN 10/15/1962
5 PERSONS FEARED DROWNED IN BOAT MISHAP ON COAST
COOS BAY – Two bodies on the beach near the south jetty during the weekend were identified today as victims of a charter fishing boat that overturned Oct 1 at Winchester Bay with eight persons aboard.
The bodies were identified as those of Marquita Wallace, 13, Springfield and Kenneth Abbott, about 45, Winchester Bay.
Abbott's body was discovered Saturday and the girl's body Sunday night.
Three persons were rescued following the accident and one body was recovered immediately after accident.
Still missing was Dale Croften, 26, Winchester Bay. The body of Ted Berry, formally of Laguna Beach, California, was found later in the Umpqua River.
Abbott and Croften were crew members. The boat was returning over a storm-tossed bar from a salmon fishing trip when it capsized. BEND BULLETIN 10/15/1962
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