Published In:
Ann Arbor News, July 6, 1942
Caption:
LIKES AIRPLANE RIDE AT 97: Henry T. Purfield, 528 Walnut St., is 97 years old but that doesn't mean he's too old to take an airplane ride. He liked his first trip at the Ann Arbor airport so well he vowed to come back for more. He is shown (center) listening to pilot Kenneth Gamber (left) explain what makes the plane fly. His grandson Dr. William Purfield (right) 520 Walnut St. accompanied him.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 29, 1943
Caption:
CAP COURIER SERVICE INAUGURATED: The Ann Arbor Civil Air Patrol inaugurated its war-time courier service yesterday afternoon when an official of an Ann Arbor plant was flown to Grand Rapids on a war business trip. Mrs. W. Carl Rufus, Ann Arbor's "flying grandmother," was chosen to pilot the first courier flight. She is shown conferring with her passenger, Jay H. Leason, a financial executive of International Industries, Inc., on details of the flight before leaving the Ann Arbor municipal airport in her plane. Mrs. Rufus returned to Ann Arbor alone, Mrs. Leason being scheduled to go on to Chicago from Grand Rapids. The CAP maintains an office at the airport through which arrangements for courier flights can be made in planes owned and operated by CAP members.