Notes:

Death Notice:

SLATON, Sept. 5 -- The fourth crop-dusting plane crash in as many days on the South Plains claimed a second victim Friday near Slaton.

The latest victim in the one-a-day series of aerial mishaps was 24-year-old San Angelo pilot, Albert Edward Drgac, who was killed instantly when his plane went into a spin and crashed about six miles southwest of here about 9:15 a.m.

According to investigating highway patrolmen Drgac's plane had gained about 100 feet of altitude to go over a house just prior to the crash. It turned ito the wind, and then went into its fatal spin, patrolmen said.

Drgac's body was taken overland late Friday afternoon to the Johnson Funeral Home in San Angelo, where funeral arrangements are pending.

(Published in The Lubbock Avalanche on September 6, 1952)



Obituary:

Funeral services for Albert Edward Drgac, 24, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Johnson Funeral Home chapel. Officiating will be the Rev. Joseph Barton of Bellville, the Rev. Henry Beseda Jr. of Rosenberg and the Rev. Gordon Hill of San Angelo.

Burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Park will be under the direction of Johnson Funeral Home.

Mr. Drgac died Friday morning when the plane he used for cotton dusting crashed near Slaton.

Survivors include his father, W. J. Drgac of Veribest; three brothers, W. C. and J. D., both of San Angelo, and A-2c Herbert, Travis Air Force Base; four sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Kokes of San Angelo, Mrs. Viola Krupala of Wall, Misses Evelyn and Clarice Drgac of Veribest and one niece, Judy Lanell Krupala.

(Published in The San Angelo Standard-Times on Septmeber 7, 1952)