ROSARY FOR LOUIS WERNER II WILL BE RECITED TODAY

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: September 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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KILLED IN IDAHO PLANE CRASH
Rosary for Louis Werner 11
W1II Be Recited Today
A Rosary for Louis Werner R,
member of a prominent St. Louis
family who was killed in a plane
crash in Idaho late Friday, will
be recited at 10:30 a.m. Monday
at the Arthur J. Donnelly funeral
home.
Burial services will be private.
Mr. Werner, an avid sports-
man and for 15 years chief of
the St. Louts Regional Office of
the Central Intelligence Agency,
was one of five persons killed
when a light plane, loaded with
hunting gear, overshot a small
airstrip and crashed into a can-
yon wall.
The five were in one of four
planes carrying an elk-hunting
party of 20 to a guest ranch
about 24 miles north of Boise.
OTHER VICTIMS
Other victims of the crash
were:
George Skakel Jr., 44, of Green-
wich, Conn., a brother-in-law of
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a
close friend of Mr. Werner's.
Dean F. Markham, 41, of
McLean, Va., a friend of Sen-
ator Kennedy's and holder of
a number of federal appoint-
ive positions.
Earl Ranft, 63, of Jersey City,
N.J., president of Debar Haul-
age Co., a trucking firm.
BODIES FLOWN EAST
Donald W. Adams, 38, of
Mountain Home Air Force Base,
Idaho, pilot of the plane.
Bodies of the men were
brought out By helicopter and
flown east by a twin-engine
plane owned by Mr. Skakel's
company which had brought
the men to Idaho. Skakel was
president of the Great Lakes
Carbon Corp. of New York.
Idaho Aeronautics Director
Chet Moulton blamed Mr. Ad-
ams for attempting the landing.
He said the plane hit a knoll
and bounced and that the pilot
then tried to pull up for another
approach. He apparently flew
into a canyon in which there is
no room for a plane to t u r n
around and crashed.
Mr. Moulton said lack of
mountain flying experience has
caused two other fatal crashes
in the area, one on Sept. 14,
when Idaho's Democratic candi-
date for governor, Charles
Herndon, was killed.
SIMILAR TRIPS
Mr. Werner's family said he
left St. Louis on the hunting
trip early Friday and that he
had made similar trips with Mr.
Skakel. A rated polo player, Mr.
Werner had played several
times in New York and St. Louis
with Mr. Skakel.
Mr. Werner, who resided on
Shackelford road, Florissant,
was born Nov. 14, 1923, in St.
Louis, a son of the late Joseph
L. and Mrs. Elise Garneau Wer-
ner. He attended St. Louis Coun-
try Day School and was grad-
uated with honors from St.
Paul's School, Concord, N.H.,
in 1941.
He was graduated from
Princeton University cum laude
in 1946.
Mr. Werner served as a fighter
pilot with the U.S. Navy from
1942 to 1945 in the South Pacific
and was twice decorated for
combat services.
He was associated with his
brother, Joseph G. Werner, as
a private investment banker be-
ginning in 1945, continuing in
that capacity after joining the
CIA in 1949.
Mr. Werner was a director of
the Mercantile Trust Co. in St.
Louis, a board member of the
Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hos-
pital, executive board member
of the St. Louis Polo Association,
and a member of the Bridle Spur
Hunt Club, St. Louis Country
Club, St. Louis Racquet Club and
Noon Day Club.
His wife, the former Anne
Kennett Farrar Desloge, was
Veiled Prophet Queen in 1946.
In addition to the wife and
brother, survivors include two
daughters, Elise Werner II and
Anne D. Werner; two sons, Louis .
G. and Peter D, Werner; the
mother, Mrs. Joseph G. Werner, ~
and a sister, Mrs. Horace
(Claire) F. Henriques, Green-
wich, Conn.
WERNER, LOUIS Ir, Sept. 23,
19C+6, husband of Anne Bennett
Lamar Desloge Werner, father of
Elise 11, Anne D., Louts G. nd
Peter D. Werner, son of Miss
G'urneau and the late Joseph L.
Werner, brother of Joseph G.
Werner of St. Louis and Mrs.
Horace F. Henriques, Jr. of
Greenwich, Conn. U
Sept. Rosa r
v6, a.m L DON-`
NELLY Parlors, 3840 Lindell bl.
Interment private. In lieu- of
flowers, contributions mayy be sent
to Cardinal Glennon Memorial'
cietylspirit of 8t. Louis AViation,?
PLnd.
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