Warren, Vermont – June 13, 1953
On the morning of June 13, 1953, a single-engine airplane with two men aboard took off from Mahwah Airfield near Nyack, New York, and flew to Warren, Vermont, where the pilot, Fremont L. Lovett, 64, owned property that contained a private airstrip. At noontime, Mr. Lovett and his passenger, True C. Morrill, 65, crashed during take off for the return trip. Both were killed.
Mr. Lovett was a highly successful and well known businessmen who directed three public utilities, and Mr. Morrill was a college Dean at Bergen Junior College in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Source: New York Times, “F. L. Lovett Killed In Crash Of Plane”, June 14, 1953.