In Memory

Norman Carmichael - Class Of 1946

   Funeral services for Norman Carmichael, 39, of 738 S. Bluff St., Monticello, one of three persons killed Friday in the crash of a helicopter near English in Crawford County, were Monday morning at Miller Funeral Home in Monticello.  The Rev. Maurice Davis officiated and interment was in Riverview Cemetery.
   Carmichael, a flying enthusiast since 1945, was the pilot and owner of the craft that crashed in hilly country near the Ohio River in southern Indiana.
   Authorites said Carmichael, Dale McLeod, 38, of Bloomington and Earl Tuttle, 48, of Oklahoma City, Okla., were inspecting right-of-way possibilities for power lines to be built by the Indiana Statewide Rural Electric Membership Corp. when the accident happened.
   The crash occurred in such an inacessible area, about four miles north of Taswell, where police had to use horses to reach the scene.  There they found all the occupants dead in the wreckage.  A steady rain which made the terrain soggy also handicapped the recurers.
  Lovell Wilkes, who lived nearby, said he saw the craft hovering about 150 feet above the trees until suddenly it plunged downward into a woodland.
   Carmichael had leased the craft to REMC and was employed by the Hoosier Energy Division of the Rural Electric Corp. with offices in Bloomington.
   Born July 23, 1928, at Lafayette, Carmichael was the son of Clyde and Edna Doolittle Carmicchael.  He married August 17, 1952, to Anita Randall; and was employed for several years as a lineman for White County REMC.  He had resided in the Yeoman community most of his life and attended Yeoman school and was graduated from Delphi High School in 1946.  He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, held a commercial pilot's license and was a flying instructor.
   He was a member of Monticello First Christian Church, IOOF Lodge, Masonic Lodge, White County Flying Farmers and the American Legion.
   Surviving with the wife are a daughter, Anita Jan, born Dec. 13, 1965, and two half brothers, John David Carmichael of Tampa, Florida, and Clay Briggs of Delphi.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Delphi Journal-Citizen, Thursday, November 9, 1967