Brookville Democrat October 16, 1947
Lost Aviatrix Descends Near Blooming Grove
Makes 3-Point Landing in Clover Field on Sunday
At 2 p.m. last Sunday, October 12, everything was quiet and peaceful in Blooming Grove as it usually is on a bright Sunday afternoon when out of the blue came the buzz of an airplane.
The sound of an airplane over this little community is quite commonplace these days but still is enough of a novelty to cause those persons who hear same to glance skyward.
Those who heard the sound gradually descending for a landing. When the aviator leveled off the plane make a perfect three-point landing and brought the plane to a stop in a bumpy clover field on the Charles Whiteman farm, just 300 feet from the house occupied by the William Sterwerf family, it was naturally supposed some experienced aviator had found it necessary to make an emergency landing.
Imagine the surprise of the few spectators when Mrs. Gretchen Ward of Indianapolis climbed out of the plane and explained she was on her first cross country solo flight when she lost her bearings and decided to land and find out just where she was.
She had flown from Indianapolis to Richmond and had intended to return to Indianapolis by way of Muncie but evidently became confused in directions for she never located the latter city.
A long distance call to Sky Harbor Air Base at Indianapolis brought the aviatrix' husband and an instructor to her rescue.
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