Leasons' Funeral Plans Not Made

Jay H. Leason, 47, vice-president of Argus, Inc., and his wife, Florence, 41, were killed yesterday when their light plane crashed and burned at Chattanooga, Tenn.

Leasons' Funeral Plans Not Made
Argus Official, Wife Die In Plane Crash
Funeral arrangements have yet to be completed for Jay H. Leason, 47. Argus vice-president, and his wife, Florence, who were killed yesterday when their private plane crashed and burned near Cattanooga, Tenn.
The Leasons made their home in Chicago but maintained an apartment here, at 715 S. Forest Ave. The camera company official had been associated with "Argus since 1941 but also headed his own investment company in Chicago.
According to a communications tower official at Lovell Field, near Chattanooga, the crash occurred when the five-passenger Beechcraft plane came in for an emergency landing shortly after taking off from the field
The Leasons were on their way to Biloxi, Miss., for a one-week vacation. Both held private pilot licenses, and Leason had been flying his own plane for the past 12 years. He was a World War I pilot and during World War II served with the Civil Air Patrol
He and his wife had been married 12 years. They had no children.
Bodies of the pair were burned beyond recognition and were identified in a Chattanooga funeral home by the flying field manager, who found a billfold bearing Leason's name near the burned plane.

Wreckage of the five-passenger light plane in which Mr. and Ms. Jay H. Leason of 715 S. Forest Ave. were killed yesterday is pictured at Lovell Field, Chattanooga, Tenn. Leason was vice-president of Argus, Inc., here and president of the J. H. Leason Investment Co. of Chicago. He and his wife were on their way to Mississippi for a short vacation.