TITLED AIR VICTIMS
FILM STAR MOURNERS. Film stars were prominent at a service at All Saints’ Church, Beverley Hills, Hollywood, in memory of Lord and Lady Plunket, who were killed in an air crash in California.
Mr W. R. Hearst, the newspaper magnate to whose ranch they were flying at the time of the disaster, followed the hearse in a private car, accompanied by Mr Douglas Fairbanks, senior, and Miss Constance Collier. Others attending the service were: The Earl of Warwick, Mr and Mrs Fred Astaire, Mr Samuel Goldwyn and Miss Norma Shearer.
After the service Lord and Lady Plunket’s remains were placed in a vault at Forest Lawn Cemetery to await transfer to England. The King and Queen and members of the Royal Family were represented at a London memorial service in Holy Trinity Church. A simple inscription on the service sheet read: Terence and Dorothe Plunket, Died together, February 24, 1938.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 9
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