STANAWAY, Michelle

The Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Friday, October 19, 1956, p. 5 Tragedy Strikes Stanaway Family September 29 was a tragic day for Mr. & Mrs. Ed Stanaway and members of their family. As previously reported in The SUN, their daughter, Michelle, 4 1/2, and Mrs. Stanaway's sister, Mrs. Opal Houston, 29, of London, England, were instantly killed in an automobile wreck near Caliente, Nev., on September 24. Two days later, Mrs. Stanaway's father, Jess Pendleton, 68, died at his home in Leavenworth, Wash. One funeral service was held for all three and all three, representing three generations, were laid to rest beside each other in a beautiful cemetery at Cashmere, Wash. The English Army Air Corps flew M/Sgt. Dale Houston and his seven children from London to Washington when he received word of his wife's death. The children range in age from 7 months to 13 years. Their mother had come to America just a few days before to see her father who was then seriously ill. It was when the dying father asked to see the Stanaway children that Mrs. Houston and her brother, Frank Pendleton, drove to Wickenburg to get them. It was on the trip back to Washington that the accident happened. Mr. Pendleton, the brother, was injured. The seven little English children, says Mr. Stanaway, will remain in America while their father returns to his Army career in London.