CONNIE FELT COWARDIN 1963 - 1964 TICKET COUNTER AGENT ABQ I found Connie's obituary will doing a periodic web search for Frontier Airlines related deaths. CONNIE FELT ABQ passenger agent per the Sep 15, 1963 and Feb 15, 1964 Sales & Service Personnel Roster. She is not on the Aug 15, 1963 roster so she started shortly afterwards. However Edith Smith is listed as a passenger agent on it so it appears that Connie is not the first female passenger agent in ABQ. At that time ticket counter agents were called passenger agents. She is also not on the Mar 15, 1964 roster so she left shortly before that. Edith Smith is also not shown on that roster. -Jake Lamkins (10/31/17) FLacebook - FL Club FLight West: Connie Felt Cowardin ABQ ticket counter agent Connie Felt Cowardin's memorial webpage is posted at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Connie_Felt_Cowardin.html Not much info on Connie. Post any remembrances you have. -Jake Lamkins (11/3/17) I remember that Connie started working at ABQ shorty before I transferred to GJT. All I can remember is she was a young, very pretty lady that everyone liked and she had excellent customer service qualities. When Connie came to ABQ she was young, I think just out of college. After awhile she became engaged to a military man. Probably Air Force as the ABQ airport, or "Sunport" as it was called, shared runways with Kirtland Air Force Base. One day Connie was on lunch break in the back room reading a book. A flight from SLC to ELP was on the ground and the stewardess (that's what they were called in those days) came in and asked Connie what she was reading. Connie explained that she was engaged to a military officer and she was reading the military officer's guide for wives, as she wanted to make him happy. The stew, who had about twenty years with Frontier, said, "Honey let me tell you about a few tricks and positions, and you'll make that guy the happiest husband ever." Connie was so embarrassed, she couldn't look any of us in the eye for the rest of the shift. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One more Connie Felt story. In 1955, a TWA flight departed ABQ for SAF (Santa Fe). Shortly after take-off, it crashed in the Sandia Mountains, north-east of ABQ. All aboard lost their lives. The bodies were recovered, but because of the rough terrain, most of the wreckage was left in place. About eight or nine years later a couple of ABQFL agents were talking with some ABQTW agents about this accident. The TW agents mentioned that they had been to the crash site. The FL agents thought this was something they would like to do, so the TW agents described in detail how to reach the site and told them it would take about four or five hours to get there. While the FL agents were finalizing their plans in their office, Connie overheard them talking, and told them she would like to go along. "Sure, why not? She's just one of the guys." So in a few days, one of the FL agents drove the four agents (male) and Connie to the base of the mountain and made arrangements with his wife to pick them up at the top where there was an overlook and parking lot. Of course, they took a wrong turn and got lost. Because of the rugged terrain, they decided it would be foolish to wander around in the dark, so they settled in for the night. Needless to say, they didn't make their rendezvous with the wife waiting for them. Remember, this was before cell-phones. When they awoke the next morning they discovered they could see their destination, the overlook, above them. They reached it in a couple of hours, and sure enough, the wife was waiting for them. Imagine her surprise when she spotted Connie. Even though there were no cell-phones, the rest of the wives were aware of Connie's participation in short order! There was a great deal of explaining, flower and candy purchases, and cold and silent households in ABQ. Oh yeah, we never did locate the crash site! -Jim Wilds (11/8/17)